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3 unusual facts about Scipio


Amynander of Athamania

He sent ambassadors to Rome and to the Scipio in Asia, to treat for peace, which was granted him.

Norman Eddy

Norman Eddy (December 10, 1810 in Scipio, New York – January 28, 1872 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American politician and military officer.

Scipio, Utah

Also on the Historic Register is the Town Hall built in 1935 which includes a museum for the family, D.U.P. and a Senior Citizens Center.


Antoni Canals

His best humanist work: Raonament fet entre Scipió e Aníbal (Dialogue that was made between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal), which in fact is a free translation of the seventh book of Petrarch's Africa, with interpolations that are based on other authors.

Battle of Ticinus

In the Science Fiction story "Delenda Est", renegade time travelers from the far future interfere at the Battle of Ticinus, with the result that Publius Cornelius Scipio and his son, the future Scipio Africanus, are killed.

Hannibal and his army vanished to the north while Scipio perceiving that he had lost them sent the main force against New Carthage under command of his brother while he returned by ship to Pisa, marched through Etruria, acquired the legions of Manlius and Atilius and camped along the Po to wait for Hannibal.

Battle of Wadi Akarit

The Battle of Wadi Akarit (code-named Operation Scipio) was the successful Allied action on 6 and 7 April 1943 to dislodge Axis forces from their positions along the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia (also known as the Akarit Line).

Charles B. Gatewood

He became a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1873 where he earned the nickname Scipio Africanus because of his resemblance to the Roman general of the same name.

Cisalpine Gaul

Vulso's army was ambushed twice, and the Senate sent Scipio with an additional force of in support.

Cobblestone Museum

Howland Cobblestone Store, also known as the Howland Stone Store Museum, in Scipio, New York

Gaius Laelius

George Handel's opera Scipione, about the romantic episode 'the Continence of Scipio', is one of the few cases.

Gaius Laelius Sapiens

Pompeius thus became consul along with Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (of a family traditionally allied with the Cornelii Scipiones), and Scipio Aemilianus suffered a humiliating political reverse.

George Africanus

George John Scipio Africanus (c. 1763–19 May 1834) was a West African former slave who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham.

Girolamo Riario

Girolamo had six sons, Ottaviano, who officially inherited the lordship of Imola, Cesare, Giovanni Livio, Galeazzo, Francesco, and a daughter, Bianca by his wife, Caterina, and lastly an illegitimate son by another woman, named Scipio.

Koldinghus

The tower was so named because of the 4 statues of giants from the Greek and Roman mythology (Hannibal, Hector, Scipio and Hercules) which adorned it.

Licinia

Licinia Major (Major Latin for the elder) the elder daughter of Lucius Licinius Crassus and his wife Laelia, she was married to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, son of the consul of 111 BC and grandson of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC and Pontifex Maximus.

Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus

Livy records that the quaestor Lucius Cornelius Scipio was sent to meet King Prusias II of Bithynia and conduct him to Rome, when this monarch visited Italy in 167 BC.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica

This Scipio Nasica was the father of the Scipio Nasica who opposed Cato the Censor for several years on the question of Carthage.

:For other individuals named Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, see Scipio Nasica.

Roman conquest of Hispania

In the winter of 209 and 208 BC Publius Scipio advanced south and collided with the army of Hasdrubal Barca (who at the time was advancing north) near Santo Tomé in the hamlet of Baecula where the Battle of Baecula took place.

Roman infantry tactics

The above is only standard procedure and was often modified; for example, at Zama, Scipio deployed his entire legion in a single line to envelop Hannibal's army just as Hannibal had done at Cannae.

Second Punic War

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus established his headquarters at Cissa, in the midst of Hannibal's latest acquisition, the area between Ebro and Pyrenees.

Scipio, severely injured in the battle, retreated across the River Trebia with his heavy infantry still intact, and encamped at the town of Placentia to await reinforcements.

Silius Italicus

16 describes the alliance between Rome and Masinissa and the Scipio's crossing into Africa, while 17 describes the bringing of the statue of Cybele to Rome, Hannibal's stormy crossing into Africa, Juno's appeal to Jupiter for the life of Hannibal, and the Battle of Zama.

Sulla's second civil war

The beaten Norbanus withdrew with the remnants of his army to Capua and Sulla was stopped in his pursuit by the second Consul, Scipio.

The Cry of the Icemark

For example, Scipio Bellorum's name is a combination of the Roman general Scipio Africanus and Bellum, the Latin for war, and his sons Octavius and Sulla are similarly named after Augustus, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, respectively.

Torre dels Escipions

Its name comes from a misidentification of the two reliefs of the god Attis, who for years were identified as those of Scipio brothers.

Valois Tapestries

Jardine and Brotton also suggest that the Valois tapestries have a clear antecedent in the triumphalist History of Scipio tapestries designed for Francis I by Giulio Romano.


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