Rome\'s most able general?

[Paullus Scipio]

Theo/Jaime wrote:-

Does anyone know if Scipio led on foot or on horseback ? Hannibal did the former at Cannae.

....Scipio certainly led on foot on occasion. At the siege of Ilurgi (Ilorca) in Spain, resistance was desperate, and Scipio led the scaling of the walls in person and at the siege of New Carthage he stood on high ground directing the Assault, and was close enough to the walls to need three bodyguards to cover him with their shields.....

In pitched battle though, it would seem most Hellenistic/Roman/Carthaginian commanders were mounted, either to lead the right-wing cavalry in person, or so as to see over the troops heads.....