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_Il._ {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}. 164, 165.

The day shall come, that great avenging day.
Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay,
When Priam's pow'rs and Priam's self shall fall,
And one prodigious ruin swallow all.

POPE.

thereby denouncing the future destiny of Rome, as he himself confessed to
Polybius, who desired Scipio to explain himself on that occasion.

Had the truth enlightened his soul, he would have discovered what we are
taught in the Scriptures, that "because of unrighteous dealings, injuries,
and riches got by deceit, a kingdom is translated from one people to
another."(906) Carthage is destroyed, because its avarice, perfidiousness,
and cruelty, have attained their utmost height. The like fate will attend
Rome, when its luxury, ambition, pride, and unjust usurpations, concealed
beneath a specious and delusive show of justice and virtue, shall have
compelled the sovereign Lord, the disposer of empires, to give the
universe an important lesson in its fall.

(M146) Carthage being taken in this manner, Scipio gave the plunder of it
(the gold, silver, statues, and other offerings which should be found in
the temples, excepted) to his soldiers for some days.(907) He afterwards
bestowed several military rewards on them, as well as on the officers, two
of whom had particularly distinguished themselves, _viz._ Tib. Gracchus,
and Caius Fannius, who first scaled the walls. After this, adorning a
small ship (an excellent sailer) with the enemy's spoils, he sent it to
Rome with the news of the victory.

At the same time he invited the inhabitants of Sicily to come and take
possession of the pictures and statues which the Carthaginians had
plundered them of in the former wars.(908) When he restored to the
citizens of Agrigentum, Phalaris's famous bull,(909) he told them that
this bull, which was, at one and the same time, a monument of the cruelty
of their ancient kings, and of the l