But despair had suggested to the Carthaginians means of defence in every direction.
All assaults were repelled.

Everybody was engaged day and night in the manufacture of arms.

Nothing can be more heartrending than this last struggle of despair.

Every man and every woman labored to the uttermost for the defence of the city with a furious enthusiasm.
Two years after the siege began, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS, the Younger, was elected Consul while but thirty-seven (under the legal age), for the express purpose of giving him charge of the siege.

After two years of desperate fighting and splendid heroism on the part of the defenders, the famished garrison could hold out no longer.
Carthage fell in 146, and the ruins of the city burned for seventeen days.