If my readers fail to form a clear idea of the topography of Carthage, I must beg them not to blame me. This is a problem which no one has yet been able to solve.
Chelys is an imaginary place; the young Scipio an imaginary person.
A. C.
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[FOOTNOTES]
[1] One paid a talent (£215) per day, making an annual amount, allowing for the difference in the value of money, of not less than a quarter of a million.
[2] C. Flamininus was degraded from the Senate for killing a captive in cold blood to entertain his company at dinner.
[3] Hannibal carried about with him in the cavity of a ring a poison so deadly that it would destroy life in a few seconds. When about to be delivered up to the Romans by the petty sovereign—Prusias, King of Bithynia—with whom he had taken refuge, he killed himself in this way.