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I labour with th'event; Joy hinder's a delivery. Massinissa Girt in a conquest, greater never made A triumph glorious, is returning back To present Scipio with Numidia's spoils, And Syphax cativ'd. When your successful policy Had destroyed both the Camps of Asdrubal And Syphax with devouring fire, whose flames seemed to the distant gazers on't a prodigy That threatened dissolution, and begotten Their greater fear, then when the Artillery Of heaven speak's loudest through the burning air To tell the world Jove's angry: When you retired To Utica to prevent and invasion Intended by the Carthaginian Navy, Which darked the Sea (much Like a cloud of Praetors That are convented after some great fight To glut their ravenous gorges with the gore, Thousands of soulless men lie reeking in) The mad Numidian King, in whom despair Had kindled a new valour, gather's head. And with a fresh supply of unmanned men (For had they been such as experience Had taught the useful order of a war Th'end had again been doubtful) gives us battle. Their first assault made us retire; yet still We kept the sudden form hast put us in For best advantage: Till their heedless courage Hurried them on, where our foot Legions Observing their disorder (for they fought In throngs so thick, that many times one striking Wounded his fellow) gives them new resistance. At which they stop, mated with apprehension Of their own danger: whom incensed King Mixing his threats with promises of honour Labour's to bring one till his horse being killed We took him prisoner, with two thousand more. The rest not flame are fled. He pretended To visit Cirtha, Syphax chiefest City: Which is delivered up. It's Massinissa. Our Spies inform That th'other half (which I conceive is Hannibal ) Intend's upon th'event of one great battle To hazard all. His Camp's already pitched Near Zama: whence a messenger is sent That show's the Carthaginian much desit's To have some conference with you. A Spanish captive. That he is fled unto Antiochus, Or else to Prusias of Bythinia. His ends are doubtful. To gratulate your victory, and the peace That gives them rest, the Soldiers have prepared A slight solemnity: The Carthaginians Mix with the Romans, though their heavy hearts To partly with so much treasure scarce admits it.
Plot summary
Plot — Hannibal and Scipio
rebukes them, but finds himself attracted to one of the A MESSENGER, who brings news from Spain (1.5) local ladies. News from Spain snaps him out of it: BOMILCAR, Hannibal's kinsman Scipio has taken several Carthaginian cities. He decides SYPHAX, King of Numidia, a young, unmarried man; to attack Rome, but is recalled to Carthage before he later Sophonisba's first husband can do so. Carthage has recently lost an African ally, Masinissa, who has been wooed to the side of Rome. In an effort to counterbalance him, Hannibal goes to Numidia to seek an alliance with its king, Syphax. He also finds Scipio there, and suspects Syphax of treachery, but makes the offer anyway: Syphax's military support in return for marriage to Sophonisba, who was previously promised to Masinissa. The lady herself is reluctantshe still loves Masinissa and thinks herself above a petty king like Syphax-but Syphax is agreeable and the marriage goes ahead. The alliance does not help the Carthaginians: Masinissa defeats Syphax's forces in battle, takes Sophonisba prisoner, and marries her (even though Syphax, her husband, is still alive). Scipio wants her to be sent to Rome, but she takes poison rather than be handed over. Hannibal meets with Scipio and offers him a peace, but Scipio refuses, and Hannibal is routed in the ensuing battle. When he returns to Carthage, the Senate rebukes him for initiating unauthorized peace negotiations, and also suspects him of attempting to set himself up as a king. He leaves Carthage in disgust. When Scipio arrives in triumph, the senators order a pre-emptive announcement that Hannibal has been banished, but their disloyalty to their general only wins Scipio's contempt. Hannibal takes refuge at the court of King Prusias in Bithynia, and offers his services in a policy of resistance to Rome's territorial ambitions. Prusias refuses, preferring not to jeopardize his diplomatic relations with the Romans. A legation arrives from Rome, with Scipio on its personnel. Hannibal learns that the exits from the palace are being guarded, and infers that he is about to be surrendered to the Romans. He forestalls this by taking poison. Scipio plans to retire to country seclusion.