Quartum et vicesimum annum agens Scipio, cum in Hispania Carthagine oppressa maioris Carthaginis capiendae sumpsisset auspicia, multosque obsides, quos in ea urbe Poeni clausos habuerant, in suam potestatem redegisset, eximiae inter eos formae virginem aetatis adultae, et iuvenis et caelebs et victor, postquam comperit illustri loco inter Celtiberos natam nobilissimoque gentis eius Indibili desponsam, arcessitis parentibus et sponso inviolatam tradidit.
When Scipio was 24 years old, he captured Carthage in Spain and took auspices for the capture of the greater Carthage. Among the many hostages captured, he found a girl of adult age, who was exceptionally beautiful and was kept in the former city by the Carthaginians. After learning that she was born in an exalted station among the Celtiberi and was betrothed to the noblest man of that nation, Indibilis, Scipio, then a young and unmarried victor, summoned her parents and fianc and handed her over inviolate.