Hannibal was sold out by the Carthaginian Senate-equivalent for being an anti-corruption crusader. He escaped Carthage and spent the rest of his life as a mercenary commander, often chased by the agents of the Roman Republic who still feared him and wanted him dead. He died during one such pursuit - variously, either by suicide or by nicking himself and getting an infection.
Scipio Africanus was wildly popular amongst the plebs, but distrusted by the conservative elites. Put up against an unrelentingly malicious opposition, Scipio eventually tired of the cutthroat politics and bowed out to his country estate, where he died of natural causes in old age. It’s said that he had written on his tomb (outside of Rome), ‘Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones’.
Both got killed by the elites of their countries too, if I remember well.
Betrayed, more like.
Hannibal was sold out by the Carthaginian Senate-equivalent for being an anti-corruption crusader. He escaped Carthage and spent the rest of his life as a mercenary commander, often chased by the agents of the Roman Republic who still feared him and wanted him dead. He died during one such pursuit - variously, either by suicide or by nicking himself and getting an infection.
Scipio Africanus was wildly popular amongst the plebs, but distrusted by the conservative elites. Put up against an unrelentingly malicious opposition, Scipio eventually tired of the cutthroat politics and bowed out to his country estate, where he died of natural causes in old age. It’s said that he had written on his tomb (outside of Rome), ‘Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones’.