82.6
He found the city full of Greek statues and votive offerings, which had come from Sicily, and so he caused proclamation to be made that the men from those cities who were there might identify them and carry them away. Cf. Diodorus, xxxii. 25; Cicero, Against Verres, ii. 35 (86) and iv. 33 (73); Livy, Epitome of Book li.; Valerius Maximus, v. 1. 6.
82.7
He would not allow either slave or freedman of his to take anything or even buy anything from the spoil, when everybody was engaged in looting and plundering. Cf. Moralia, 97 C, and note e on p. 187.
82.8
He was active in the support of Gaius Laelius, the dearest of his friends, when he was a candidate for the consulship, and he inquired of Pompey Quintus Pompey, consul 141 B.C. whether he also was a candidate. (It was reputed that Pompey was the son of a flute-player.) Pompey said that he was not a candidate, and offered to take Laelius about with him and help him in his canvass, and they, believing his words and waiting for his co-operation, were completely deceived. For it was reported that Pompey was himself going about and soliciting the citizens. The others were indignant, but Scipio laughed and said, It is because of our own stupidity; for, just as if we were intending to call not upon men but upon gods, we have been wasting any amount of time in waiting for a flute-player ! Cf. Cicero, De amicitia, 21 (77).
82.9
When Appius Claudius was his rival In 142 B.C. for the censorship, and asserted that he greeted all the Romans by name, while Scipio knew hardly one of them, Scipio said, You are quite right; for I have not taken such pains to know many as to be unknown to none. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Aemilius Paulus, chap. xxxviii. (275 C).
82.10
He bade the people, inasmuch as they happened to be waging war against the Celtiberians, to send out both himself and his rival either as legates or tribunes of the soldiers, and take the word and judgement of the fighting men in regard to the valour of each.
