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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Elder Scipio Africanus: With Notes and Illustrations At seventeen years, When Carthage made a head for Rome, he fought Beyond the mark of others. The consul was the first to proclaim aloud that he owed his preservation to his son, and greeted him with the glorious title of Deliverer. On returning to his camp; he ordered a civic crownlo to be presented to him, which was re fused with this magnanimous declaration, that the action was one that rewarded itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.