SCIPIO Do not do so yet, but hear what I have to say. MINOS Who are you, my good man? Where do you come from, that you wish to speak? SCIPIO From Italy. I am Scipio, the General who destroyed Carthage, Lucian seems to have confused the victor of Zama with Scipio Aemilianus. and overcame the Libyans in mighty battle. MINOS Well, what have you to say? SCIPIO That I am a lesser man than Alexander, but superior to Hannibal, for I drove him before me, after defeating him, and forcing him to flee ignominiously. Is he not shameless, then, in posing as the rival of Alexander, with whom even I, Scipio, the conqueror of Hannibal, do not presume to compare myself? MINOS By heaven, what you say, Scipio, is reasonable! So let Alexander be adjudged Cf. note on p. 143. first, and after him you, and then, if you don’t mind, Hannibal third, though even he is of no little account.