ille, cum iam aetate deficiente, magnas regni opes quattuor et quinquaginta filiorum numero relinquens, in lectulo laberetur, M Manilium, qui pro consule Africam obtinebat, litteris obsecravit ut ad se Scipionem Aemilianum sub eo tunc militantem mitteret, feliciorem mortem suam futuram ratus si in complexu dexterae eius supremum spiritum ac mandata posuisset.
When his days were numbered and he lay collapsing in bed, leaving the great resources of his kingdom to four and fifty sons, he wrote to M. Manilius, governing Africa as Proconsul, begging him to send Scipio Aemilianus, who was serving under him at the time; for he thought that his death would be happier if he left his last breath and commissions clasping Scipios hand.
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