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What did Scipio Africanus the Younger say to Polybius while watching Carthage burn?
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As Scipio Africanus the Younger surveyed the burning city of Carthage in 146 BCE, he wept while contemplating the inevitable fall of great nations. Grasping the hand of the historian Polybius, he remarked:
"It is glorious, but I have a dread foreboding that some time the same doom will be pronounced upon my own country."1