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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 24 | 24 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Death of Massanissa
Massanissa, king of the Numidians in Africa, was the
Death of Massanissa B. C. 148. His fortunate career and physical vigour.
best man of all the kings of our time, and the
most completely fortunate; for he reigned more
than sixty years in the soundest health and
to extreme old age,—for he was ninety when
he died. He was, besides, the most powerful
man physically of all his contemporaries: for instance, when
it was necessary to stand, he would do so without moving a
foot als made Cato take the same reckoning,
perhaps from Polybius also. But it does not agree with another statement of
Livy himself, who (24, 49) speaks of him as being seventeen in B. C. 213, in
which case he would be in his eighty-second year in B. C. 148. It is, however,
proposed to read xxvii. for xvii. in this passage of Livy. . . .
A little while before his death he was seen, on the day
following a great victory over the Carthaginians, sitting outside
his tent eating a piece of dirty bread, and