SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR

or the Younger (185-129 B. C.), was an adopted grandson of the former. He brought the Punic Wars to a close by the capture and destruction of Carthage 146 B. C. On his return to Rome he supported the aristocratic faction and opposed the reforms proposed by his cousins, the Gracchi. He was found dead in his bed the morning of a day on which he had proposed to speak in the Senate on the land question, "a victim of political assassination," says Mommsen.

Many others Scipios appear on the pages of Roman history. A group of tombs on the Appian Way near Rome is pointed out as the Tombs of the Scipios, the ancient place of family burial.

See Hannibal; Gracchi