[13:10:00] Iocanthos > Im drinking for a whole week and I work like a swiss clock



Scipio, when he looked upon Carthage as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. After being wrapped in thought for long, and realizing that all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom; that this happened to Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said:

A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish,
And Priam and his people shall be slain.

And when Polybius asked him what he meant by the words, they say that without any attempt at concealment he named Rome, for which he feared when he reflected on the fate of all things human.