IIII - Triumph at Zama

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After so long a treaty signed
To bring peace and end the violent times

16 years of total war

Hannibal now departing Latin shores
Carthage blockaded and starved!
It’s people defying the senate’s charge!
Their conqueror coming back home
They followed him to their doom
A Roman ship blown off course
Beached on the Carthaginian coast

It’s hull full of food, begging the starving to seize its loot!

The people had their way

They seized the cargo, breaking the treaty
Back to war with Rome, Hannibal against Scipio!
A showdown on the African plains,
The fields of Zama to be the stage
Both sides bolstered by foreign aid
The battle of the century
4,000 Greek hoplites!

Philip gifting Carthage a great Phalanx
They made the core of Hannibal’s line
But the Numidians were no longer at his side

80 elephants on the charge!
Did nothing to stop the Roman march!
The once feared beasts of war,
The Roman column did ignore

Forward rode the cavalry,
All but the Greeks they did flee,
Bold they made their stand,
Gaining death in foreign land!

“HIC FINIS BELLO…
MANSVRI COMPOS DECORIS PER SAECVLA RECTOR,
DEVICTAE REFERENS PRIMVS COGNOMINA TERRAE,
SECVRVS SCEPTRI, REPETIT PER CAERULA ROMAM
ET PATRIA INVEHITVR SVBLIMI TECTA TRIUMPHO.” –

PVNICA, Book XVII, Lines 618, 625-628

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from AFRICANVS, released November 17, 2018

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