<head>Ambitious Youth</head>He was then very young, and it was his first experience<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note31">Scipio Africanus the younger, cf.<bibl n="Liv. 44.44" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 44, 44</bibl>(?)</note>of actual service in the field, and having but recently begun to taste the sweets of promotion, he was keen, ambitious, and eager to be first. . . .
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