place
Numantia
Celtiberian stronghold in Spain, destroyed by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC; cited with Carthage and Corinth as a great city reduced to ashes.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Polybius §1 Numantia
Celtiberian stronghold in Spain destroyed by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC.
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §6.8 Numantia
Celtiberian town in Spain razed by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC after a long siege; a byword for a fortress that finally fell.
- On Anger §1.11 Numantia
The Celtiberian stronghold in Spain that Scipio Aemilianus reduced by blockade until its defenders fell on their own swords.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.66.13 Numantia
A Celtiberian stronghold in northern Spain; its inhabitants, starved out by Scipio in 133 BC, are said to have killed themselves rather than surrender --- the 'unconquered hands turned against their own destruction.'