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” Sir, who would become gneral of the Roman Army upon your retirement”? The officers were relaxing at table in their mess-tent, one evening after supper, during the siege of the Celtic-Iberian town of Numantia on the River Douro in Northern spain. Everybody that day was astonished by the answer of the ageing commander, Scipio Aemilianus, Conqueror of Carthage, who turned without any hesiation at all upon the young legionary by his side and tapped him on the shoulder: “Perhaps it will be young Gaius Marius here!!”
