NOTE.
I have departed, for convenience sake in the construction of my story, from historical truth in the date of Masinissa"s death. This took place before the beginning of the Third Punic War. For the same reason, the Macedonian pretender is postdated. He had certainly disappeared from the scene before the autumn immediately preceding the fall of Carthage (when my hero is supposed to visit him).
If my readers fail to form a clear idea of the topography of Carthage, I must beg them not to blame me. This is a problem which no one has yet been able to solve.
Chelys is an imaginary place; the young Scipio an imaginary person.
A. C.
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