A flash in the pan

Many people remember the rival of Rome, Carthage, and the general Hannibal, but how many remember the one who defeated Carthage? His name was Scipio Africanus, student of Polybius and general of the Roman Empire.

This man, who defeated the worst enemy of his nation's empire, was thinking of very transient things in his moment of glory. On the burning of Carthage, he said talked about the mortality of nations, even Rome. And on his mounmental victory which crowned him in glory, he had this to say: "It too will pass."