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- Word comparison: Hannibal vs. Scipio
Hannibal vs. Scipio
noun
247–183 b.c., Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy (son of Hamilcar Barca).
a port in NE Missouri, on the Mississippi: Mark Twain's boyhood home.
noun
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Scipio the Elder, 237–183 b.c., Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
his adopted grandson Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor Scipio the Younger, c185–129 b.c., Roman general: besieger and destroyer of Carthage.
