es which, during this war,
had joined with the enemy, should all be rased, and their territories be
given to the Roman allies; they particularly made a grant to the citizens
of Utica, of the whole country lying between Carthage and Hippo. All the
rest they made tributary, and reduced it into a Roman province, whither a
praetor was sent annually.

All matters being thus settled, Scipio returned to Rome, where he made his
entry in triumph.(915) So magnificent a one had never been seen before;
the whole exhibiting nothing but statues, rare, invaluable pictures, and
other curiosities, which the Carthaginians had, for many years, been
collecting in other countries; not to mention the money carried into the
public treasury, which amounted to immense sums.

Notwithstanding the great precautions which were taken to hinder Carthage
from being ever rebuilt, in less than thirty years after, and even in
Scipio's lifetime, one of the Gracchi, to ingratiate himself with the
people, undertook to found it anew, and conducted thither a colony
consisting of six thousand citizens for that purpose.(916) The senate,
hearing that the workmen had been terrified by many unlucky omens, at the
time they were tracing the limits, and laying the foundations of the new
city, would have suspended the attempt; but the tribune, not being over
scrupulous in religious matters, carried on the work, notwithstanding all
these bad presages, and finished it in a few days. This was the first
Roman colony that was ever sent out of Italy.

It is probable, that only a kind of huts were built there, since we are
told,(917) that when Marius retired hither, in his flight to Africa, he
lived in a mean and poor condition amid the ruins of Carthage, consoling
himself by the sight of so astonishing a spectacle; himself serving, in
some measure, as a consolation to that ill-fated city.

Appian relates,(918) that Julius Caesar, after the death of Pompey, having
crossed into Africa, saw, in a dream, an army composed of a prodigious
number of soldiers, who, with tears in their eyes, called him; and that,
struck with the vision, he writ down in his pocket-book the design which
he formed on this occasion, of rebuilding Carthage and Corinth: but that
having been murdered soon after by the conspirators, Augustus Caesar, his
adopted son, who found this memorandum among his papers, rebuilt Carthage
near the spot where it stood formerly, in order that the imprecations
which had