From Book 51

[51.1] Carthage, which had a circumference of thirty-four kilometers, was besieged with much labor, and captured part by part; first by deputy Mancinus, then by consul Scipio [Aemilianus], to whom the African command had been assigned without casting lots.

[51.2] Because the old harbor had been blocked by Scipio, the Carthaginians dug a new one, and quickly and secretly built a large fleet, with which they fought an unsuccessful naval battle.

[51.3] The castle of Hasdrubal, their leader, on difficult terrain near the town of Nepheris was also destroyed by Scipio, who [146 BCE] finally captured the city in the seven-hundredth year since it was founded.

[51.4] A major part of the spoils were given back to the Sicilians, from whom they had been seized.

[51.5] When Hasdrubal surrendered to Scipio during the final stage of the siege, his wife, who had - only a few days before - been unable to convince her husband to escape to the victor, threw herself from the citadel into the flames of the burning city with her two children.

[51.6] Scipio, following the example of his father, the Aemilius Paullus who had conquered Macedonia, organized games and cast deserters and runaways for the wild animals.

[51.7] The origins of the Achaean War are described as follows: at Corinth, Roman envoys were attacked by Achaeans. These envoys had been sent to separate those towns that had been under control of Philip [V of Macedonia] from the Achaean league.