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Sophonisbe - wife of Hasdrubal (Carthagian leader)
- died by jumping from the wall of the burning
temple t her 2 little sons.
- Livy's account of the marriage + death of Sophonisba
(d. 203 BC), wife of the Numidian Syphax was the
subject for one of the earliest Renaissance tragedies
(Trissino, 1515).