ng was not entirely
banished from Carthage,) they gave orders to have these books translated
into Latin,(553) though Cato had before written his books on that subject.
There is still extant a Greek version of a treatise drawn up by Hanno in
the Punic tongue,(554) relating to a voyage he made (by order of the
senate) with a considerable fleet round Africa, for the settling of
different colonies in that part of the world. This Hanno is believed to be
more ancient than that person of the same name who lived in the time of
Agathocles.

Clitomachus, called in the Punic language Asdrubal, was a great
philosopher.(555) He succeeded the famous Carneades, whose disciple he had
been; and maintained in Athens the honour of the Academic sect. Cicero
says,(556) that he was a more sensible man, and fonder of study, than the
Carthaginians generally are. He wrote several books;(557) in one of which
he composed a piece to console the unhappy citizens of Carthage, who, by
the ruin of their city, were reduced to slavery.

I might rank among, or rather place at the head of, the writers who have
adorned Africa, the celebrated Terence; himself singly being capable of
reflecting infinite honour on his country by the fame of his productions,
if, on this account, Carthage, the place of his birth, ought not to be
less considered as his country than Rome, where he was educated, and
acquired that purity of style, that delicacy and elegance, which have
gained him the admiration of all succeeding ages. It is supposed,(558)
that he was carried off when an infant, or at least very young, by the
Numidians in their incursions into the Carthaginian territories, during
the war carried on between these two nations, from the conclusion of the
second, to the beginning of the third Punic war. He was sold for a slave
to Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator; who, after giving him an excellent
education, gave him his liberty, and called him by his own name, as was
then the custom. He was united in a very strict friendship with the second
Scipio Africanus, and Laelius; and it was a common report at Rome, that he
had the assistance of these two great men in composing his pieces. The
poet, so far from endeavouring to stifle a report so advantageous to him,
made a merit of it. Only six of his comedies are extant. Some authors, on
the authority of Suetonius, (the writer of his life,) say, that in his
return from Greece, whither he had made a voyage, he lost a hundred a