Numantia

Historical Examples of numantia

• Numantia is an early Saragossa, Saragossa a modern Numantia.

  The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies

  Robert Gordon Latham

• The fall of Numantia gave Rome a hold upon the interior of Spain, which was never lost.

  History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

  Robert F. Pennell

• He was present at the siege of Numantia, and his courage caused Scipio to predict for him a brilliant career.

  History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

  Robert F. Pennell

• When Numantia was taken by Scipio, mothers, with the half-eaten bodies of their babes in their bosoms, were found!

  The Satyricon, Volume 5 (Crotona Affairs)

  Petronius Arbiter

• After a long and often disastrous siege, Scipio utterly destroyed Numantia.

  The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus

  Ammianus Marcellinus