Ancient History, Rome: Biographies

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Sophonisba

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Sophonisba, the daughter of Hasdrubal, a Carthaginian general, who avoided captivity by taking poison at the instigation of her betrothed Masinissa, was the subject of several plays, notably by Marston, N. Lee, and James Thomson. The notorious line ‘Oh! Sophonisba, Sophonisba, Oh!’ occurs in Thomson's version (1730), was altered to ‘Oh Sophonisba, I am wholly thine’ in later editions, and parodied by Fielding in Tom Thumb as ‘O Huncamunca, Huncamunca O!’

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Sophonisba

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Sophonisba , fl. 3d cent. BC, Carthaginian noblewoman, daughter of Hasdrubal . She was the Carthaginian wife of Syphax of Numidia, who after the marriage fought for Carthage. When he was defeated (203 BC) by Masinissa and the Romans, Sophonisba took poison. This tragedy was the subject of plays by Alfieri, Trissino, Corneille, James Thomson, Voltaire, and others. The Carthaginian spelling of her name is Saphanba'al.

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