Talk:Battle of Thapsus

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The reason Scipio and most of his officers were all killed at the end of the battle is that Caesar's soldiers were overcome by bitterness and rage ("ira et dolore incensi"). The soldier did the killing in spite of Caesar's direct orders to spare the opponents after surrender. That event is described in a contemporary report: "De bello Africo" (authorship uncertain, perhaps Aulus Hirtius, who served under Caesar), published as "Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars" in the Loeb Classical Library (section 90 - page 278). The soldiers appear to have had a grudge against the upper class officers (senator and knight classes) since in the same after-victory rampage they even slaughtered some of Caesar's officers who were of the same social extraction. I recommend to update the description.

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Why, for gods' sake, there is reference to battle of Bagradas in battlebox? the Battle took place almost 200 years before Ceasar's Civil War, nor any Roman took important role in it! I suppose it should be replaced with "Rubicon".--MWeinz 07:08, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Months?[edit]

I was looking at this link and they use the same date as this article for the landing at Hadrumentum, but instead of the February date for Thapsus, they have April 4th. Anybody have a better reference? Jolomo 22:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"The battle proceeded peace in Africa"[edit]

Does the author mean "preceded peace?" "Preceded" is itself an odd choice of words, but "proceeded" makes no sense at all. I could see "proceeded apace," but the battle is already over at that point in the narrative.

Date of the Battle[edit]

I know Encyclopedia Britannica names February 6. But all other sources i found say April 6. E.g. Meyers Konversationslexikon (sorry, it's German), but also: [1], [2], [3], [4] and so on and so on (these are just the english sources); [5] only says April. But there are a lot of German sources as well. --Susu the Puschel 14:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's still listed on Wikipedia's February 6 page. Confusing. Alpheus (talk) 01:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Engraving of the Battle[edit]

Does anyone have more information about where the image of the engraving comes from? I assume it is from an edition of Caesar's "Commentaries". --Alan (talk) 08:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the comment to the image it says: Scheme of the Battle of Thapsus - Reproduction of a copper printing by Andrea Palladio (1619) Source: scanned from a book in my possession (dated 1619)

Thanks to the uploader - it is quite magnificent, but could you be persuaded to upload an explanation of the legends? //erik.bramsen.copenhagen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.191.202.105 (talk) 16:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Style[edit]

Have reverted the dates as per WP:Style. Sesesq changed them a few months ago and they should have been changed without consensus. Please refrain from such things in the future. Alexandre8 (talk) 04:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]