Scipio Aemilianus

Scipio Aemilianus, after two triumphs and two consulships, went an embassy with no more than seven servants in his train.

This humor is far differing from that of the younger Scipio, who sharply reprehended his soldiers for having planted caltrops under water, in a ditch by which those of the town he held besieged might sally out upon him;

The younger Scipio, reforming his army in Spain, ordered his soldiers to eat standing, and nothing that was dressed.

Scipio Aemilianus alone, could one attribute to him as brave and magnificent an end, and as profound and universal a knowledge, might be put into the other scale of the balance.