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Zama

A town of Numidia, celebrated as the scene of the victory of Scipio over Hannibal, B. C. 202.

Zela or Ziela. A city in the south of Pontus, not far south of Amasia. The surrounding district was called Zeletis or Zelitis. At Zela the Roman general Valerius Triarius was defeated by Mithridates; but the city is more celebrated for another great battle, that in which Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces, and of which he wrote this dispatch to Rome: Veni; Vidi Vici.

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