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Scipio
Scattered
Carthage
In African Sands

CIPIO AFRICANUS! There's another terrible Name. However, Scipio was a Roman who picked up a boy on his travels, loved him as his own, and had his son adopt him. Incidentally Scipio Africanus was so pleased with himself that he insisted on his adopted grandson being tagged with the same euphonius title and name, thus making "Scipio, the Elder" and "Scipio, the Younger." After chasing Hannibal

all over Italy, old Scipio, dying, directed his grandson to make the overthrow of Carthage his sole ambition. This the younger Scipio promised.

About twelve years later he fixed up a navy of ten or twelve thousand ships-that's exactly the numerical strength of navies in those times. --and landed his army near Hannibal's stronghold. The ancient Carthaginian was slipping and hid behind his own walls. Scipio proceeded to do about everything that could be done to Carthage. He bombarded it beautifully. Then he sacked it and then he burned it. Still not satisfied, he scattered it in the African

sands. He simply made it a lost city and it has been lost ever since.

While all this was going on Hannibal sent out word, "Be merciful, Scipio, be merciful." Towards this cry-baby attitude Scipio felt a just resentment. His courier returned with the reply, "Protect yourself, Hannibal, protect yourself, for I am coming."

The whole story of Scipio is in that one sentence. "Protect yourself for I am coming." Death, too, sings that song into every man's ear. Death should not be feared. But it is a fear to the man who has been negligent of the future.

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