Destruction of Numantia. Scipio, of his own accord, razed the town to the ground, and received the added surname of Numantinus.

Roman Province in Spain.

[C52]

Rome the Invincible.

Dixitque tandem perfidus Hannibal:

‘Cervi, luporum praeda rapacium,

Sectamur ultro, quos opimus

Fallere et effugere est triumphus.

Gens, quae cremato fortis ab Ilio

Iactata Tuscis aequoribus sacra