scipio

He also wrote respected volumes on the world wars and biographies of Rommel and Scipio Africanus, among others.

Speaking of which are the greatest generals, according to Livy Hannibal and Scipio Africanus met at a dinner 10 years after Scipio definitively beat Hannibal and that's what their conversation was about.

And the somewhat less famous position of Cato the Elder's opponent, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum.

Curiously, Scipio is also arguably one of the most famous family names from Roman Antiquity.

Annoyed that he wasn't on the list Scipio said okay, what then if I hadn't beat you at Zama?

The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

What would have happened if Scipio refused to provide his marriage papers?

Since we’re off down a rabbit hole anyway, my favourite meetings of rival generals are those between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal.

Their culture, meanwhile, in assimilating and appropriating from outsiders meant Scipio was able to learn from Hannibal, and the Senate was willing to support his novel ideas.

Polybius was kept as a hostage in Rome for 17 years and was a close associate of Scipio Aemilianus, who sacked Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.

This battle was one of those moments, and Zama was another in the second war (in a campaign that Scipio basically had to fund himself after failing to get the support of the senate).

Hannibal did terrify Rome with them for a while, but Scipio Africanus figured out a very simple strategy to defeat them, which won the second Punic war for Rome at the battle of Zama.

Probably one the most famous Roman "lawyer" Cicero was not only a plebian but a complete no-name from a provincial town (and most famous Romans from his time like Cato, Pompey, Brutus, Mark Anthony, Octavian were all plebian while Ceasar, Lepidus and Metellus Scipio were patrician).

Scipio africanus absolutely learned from hannibal, and was able to layer aggressiveness, deception, and delay into his strategy.

Scipio had to provide evidence, lose his privacy and justify his use of the domain name to avoid losing it.

Scipio Africanus was the one who expanded the practice of client-patron relationships to a geopolitical scale to build an independent power base.