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He was urged by Scipio Africanus to lend his influence to help the banished Achaeans to return to their homes, but he made as though he cared nothing about the matter; in the Senate, however, where the subject aroused much discussion, he arose and said, We sit here as if we had nothing to do, debating about some poor old Greeks whether they shall be carried to their graves by bearers who live in our country or in Greece. Ibid. chap. ix. (341 A. - Polybius, xxxv. 6).
81.29
Postumius Albinus wrote a history in the Greek language, in which he craved the indulgence of his readers. Cato said sarcastically that he ought to be granted indulgence if he had written the book under compulsion by a decree of the Ampictyonic Council! Ibid. chap. xii. (343 B); Polybius, xxxix. 12 (- xl. 6).
SCIPIO THE YOUNGER Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Minor), 185-129 B.C.; conqueror of Carthage in 147-146 B.C.; friend of Polybius the historian. His life (now lost) was written by Plutarch (No. 28 in the catalogue of Lamprias; see also the Life of Tib. Gracchus, chap. xxi. 834 D, and Life of C. Gracchus, chap. x. 839 C); and without doubt many of the sayings found here were incorporated in it.
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The Younger Scipio, they say, in the fifty-four years of his life bought nothing, sold nothing, built nothing, and left only thirty-three pounds of silver and two of gold in a great estate. So little he left, in spite of the fact that he was master of Carthage, and was the one among the generals who had made his soldiers richest. Cf. Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9; Polybius, xviii. 35; Pliny, Natural History, xxxiii. 50 (141).