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Many Romans lost their lives by the fire inThe Romans in the mining district of Spain. trying to get the silver and gold which had been melted and fused. . . .
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When every one complimented Scipio after he hadScipio’s idea of transferring the war to Africa. driven the Carthaginians from Iberia, and advised him straightway to take some rest and ease, as having put a period to the war, he answered that he congratulated them on their sanguine hopes; for himself he was now more than ever revolving in his mind how to begin the war with Carthage. Up to that time the Carthaginians had waged war upon the Romans; but that now fortune put it in the power of the Romans to make war upon them. . . .
24c
See Livy, 28, 17, 18.
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In his conversation with Syphax, Scipio, who was eminentlyScipio’s influence over Syphax. endowed by nature in this respect, conducted himself with so much kindness and tact, that Hasdrubal afterwards remarked to Syphax that Scipio appeared more formidable to him in such an interview than in the field. . . .
