Carthaginian Indemnity in the Second Punic War

In 151 BC, the Numidians crossed once again in the Carthaginian territory and laid siege to a border city. The new party did not advocate war with Rome, they merely sought to raise an army to defend Carthage. After 50 years of peace, however, it could have been 500,000, and the result probably would have been the same. Scipio Amelianus only further cemented the Roman superstition that only Scipio could emerge victorious from Africa.