Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain. He oversaw the final defeat and destruction of the city of Carthage. He was a prominent patron of writers and philosophers, the most famous of whom was the Greek historian Polybius. In politics, he opposed the populist reform program of his murdered brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus. 185 BC – 129 BC; died at about 56. Alive at the same time as Terence, Hipparchus, Cato the Elder, Apollonius of Perga, and Gaius Marius. Wiki link