Note 250 — BOOK XXXVIII
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
After the capture of Megara, the suburban district of Carthage, by Scipio, Hasdrubal withdrew into the Byrsa, got made commander-in-chief, and bringing all Roman prisoners to the battlements, put them to death with the most ghastly tortures. Appian, Pun. 118.