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Title: The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Translated from the French
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London Printed for G. Cowie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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errace, which had been thrown up against thewalls to unload goods, on the side of which a small rampart had beenraised during this war, to prevent the enemy from possessing themselvesof it. Here the fight was again renewed with more vigour than ever,and lasted.till late at night. The Carthaginians suffered very much, andthe few ships which got off, sailed for refuge to the city. Morning beingcome, Scipio attacked the terrace, and carried it, though with greatdifficulty ; after which he made a lodgment there, and fortified himselfon it, and built a brick wall close to those of the city, and of the sameheight. When it was finished, he commanded four thousand men to geton the top of it, and to discharge from it a perpetual shower of darts andarrows upon the enemy, which did great execution ; because, as the twowalls were of equal height, almost every dart took effect. Thus endedthis campaign. During the winter quarters,t Scipio endeavoured to overpower the * Appian. p. 75. t Ibid. p. 78.
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THE CARTHAGINIANS. 803 enemys troops without the city, who very much harassed the conyoysthat brought his provisions, and protected such as were sent to the be-sieged. For this purpose he attacked a neighbouring fort, called Ne-pheris, where they used to shelter themselves. In the last action, aboveseventy thousand of the enemy, as well soldiers as peasants, who hadbeen enlisted, were cut to pieces; and the fort was carried with greatdiflBculty, after sustaining a siege of two-and-twenty days. The seizureof this fort was followed by the surrender of almost all the strong holdsin Africa ; and contributed very much to the taking of Carthage itself,into which, from that time, it was almost impossible to bring anyprovisions. Early in the spring, (A. M. 3859. A. Rom. 603.) Scipio attacked, atone and the same time, the harbour called Cothon, and the citadel.*Having possessed himself of the wall which surrounded this port, hethrew himself into the great square of the city that was near it, f

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