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Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic War
The first war between Rome and Carthage -
262 BCE
Scipio Born
Scipio born to Publius Cornelius Scipio, Roman general who fought in the first Punic War -
183 BCE
Scipio Dies
Scipio dies in nearly self imposed exile. Orders burial not to be in the ungrateful city of Rome.