Zama

, or Zagma , a town of Numidia, 300 miles from Carthage, celebrated for the victory which Scipio obtained there over the great Annibal, B.C. 202. Me tell us besieged it, and was obliged to retire with great lo . After Juba’s death it was destroyed by the Romans. Hirtius , African War , ch. 91 .— Cornel i us Nepos , Hannibal .— Livy , bk. 30 , ch. 29 .— Sallust , Jugurthine War .— Florus , bk. 3 , ch. 1 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 3 , li. 261 .— Strabo , bk. 17 .――A town of Cappadocia,――of Me so pot am i a.