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Zama

noun
1.
The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.  Synonym: battle of Zama.





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... peace was concluded (B.C. 202), as otherwise he could have reached Utica only by deserting to the enemy.[3] Jerome gives B.C. 201, Cicero B.C. 204, although he says Varro put the date later. The verses on Scipio quoted above could hardly have been written before the battle of Zama. ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton


Words linked to "Zama" :   pitched battle, Tunisia, Republic of Tunisia, Punic War


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