[604] “The last act of his political life was to cause the ruin of Carthage to be determined on.” (Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 39.)

[605] Titus Livius, Epitome, XLVIII.

[606] At Carthage, the multitude governed; at Rome, the power of the Senate was absolute. (Polybius, VI. 51.)

[607] Titus Livius, L. 16.

[608] Appian, Punic Wars, 93 et seq.

[609] Justin, XXXIV. 1.—Titus Livius, Epitome, LI.—Polybius, I. 2, 3.

[610] Pausanias, VII. 16.—Justin, XXXIV. 2.

[611] Polybius, XL. 11.

[612] Appian, Wars of Spain, 52.

[613] Eutropius, IV. 7.