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Ne fili quidem tui Scipionis Aemiliani, quem in adoptionem dando duarum familiarum ornamentum esse uoluisti, maiestati parum honoris tributum est, cum eum adulescentem admodum a Lucullo consule petendi auxilii gratia ex Hispania in Africam missum Karthaginienses et Masinissa rex de pace disceptatorem uelut consulem et imperatorem habuerunt. ignara quidem fatorum suorum Karthago: orientis enim illud iuuentae decus deorum atque hominum indulgentia ad excidium eius alebatur, ut superius cognomen Africanum capta, posterius euersa Corneliae genti daret.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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