Carthage's Destroyment

The Roman Senate sent a ten-man commission from Rome to supervise the destruction of Carthage. Scipio was ordered to raise the remainder of the city to the ground, and a solemn curse was put on any persons who might in future attempt to settle there. Those of Carthage's libraries that survived the fire had their contents scattered across Africa. Only one exception was made: all 28 volumes of a famous agricultural treatise by the Carthaginian Margot be brought back to Rome and translated into Latin.