212 Marcellus takes Syracuse, after a three years’ siege; death of Archimedes, the noted geometrician.
206 Asdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, defeated and slain by the Romans; Age of Syphax (Latin poet); Ennius (Latin poet); Masinissa, King of Numidia.
202 Sicily becomes a Roman province.
201 Battle of Zama; Hannibal defeated by Scipio Africanus; End of the second Punic war.
200 Romans conquer Illyricum; 197, defeat the Macedonians at Cynoscephalæ; 196 Hannibal banished from Carthage.
190 Antiochus defeated by the Consul Acilius at Thermopylæ; Age of Cato the elder.
187 Scipio Asiaticus defeats Antiochus I at Magnesia and Sipylum.
186 Scipio Africanus banished to Liturnum.
183 Death of Hannibal in Bithynia, by poison, aged sixty-five.