Lucius Veturius Philo was a curule aedile in 210 BC, praetor of Cisalpine Gaul in 209 BC, propraetor of the same province in 208 BC, consular legate in 207 BC, consul in 206 BC, and magister equitum i
The Battle of Zama, in which Veturius Philo participated
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman who was one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the greates
Lucius Veturius Philo (consul 206 BC)
…the plunder, as well as most of the men, were saved. Lucania thereafter returned its allegiance to Rome without resistance. The next year, 205 BC, upon Scipio Africanus' victorious return to Rome from Spain, Veturius Philo, in his capacity as outgoing consul, having returned from Bruttium, proceeded to hold the consular…
Bust likely of Scipio Africanus (formerly identified as Sulla)
A Carthaginian coin depicting Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), one of Hannibal's younger brothers, wearing a diadem
Bronze bust dated mid-first century BC, formerly identified as Scipio Africanus, now thought to portray a priest of Isis
Antiochus sends his son to Scipio. Painting by Jean-Pierre Granger (c. 1800).