text:  The Gaulish and Ligurian soldiers who had faithfully served Hannibal during seventeen years abandoned him not in his days of misfortune; re-united to their compatriots who had followed Mago they formed still a third part of the Carthaginian army at Zama in the celebrated day which terminated that long war to the advantage of the Romans and displayed to the world the genius of Hannibal humbled before the fortune of Scipio