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025- The Syrian War

The History of Rome

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The Battle of Zama

The decisive battle came at Magnesia on the border between Pergamum and Syria in modern day Turkey. Scipio asked if anyone present was dissatisfied with the fact that Rome was making back five times what it had put into the war because of the indemnity forced on Antiochus by the two brothers. He never did deny the charges, though. The epitaph of his tomb allegedly read, ungrateful Fatherland, you will not even have my bones.

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