When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the populace.


Book 1, Ch. 53 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick) - Discourses on Livy (1517)

Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate...

When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate...

When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate...

When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate...