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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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As the Senate attempts to calm the panic, a letter arrives from the consul Terentius detailing Aemilius's death and the desperate state of the remnants, throwing the city into deep mourning that requires a limit on its duration. Meanwhile, another letter from propraetor Otacilius in Sicily reports Carthaginian naval attacks and requests a fleet to protect their ally.
cum in hanc sententiam pedibus omnes issent,1 summotaque foro per magistratus turba patres diversi ad sedandos tumultus discessissent, tum demum litterae a C. Terentio consule allatae sunt:
When all had voted for this motion, and the crowd had been cleared from the Forum by the magistrates, and the senators had dispersed in different directions to quell the tumults, then at last a letter was brought from the consul Gaius Terentius:
L. Aemilium consulem exercitumque caesum; sese Canusii esse, reliquias tantae cladis velut ex naufragio colligentem;2 ad decem milia militum ferme esse inconpositorum inordinatorumque; Poenum sedere ad Cannas, in captivorum —;
that the consul Lucius Aemilius and the army had been slain; that he himself was at Canusium, collecting the remnants of so great a disaster as if from a shipwreck; that there were about ten thousand disorganized and disordered soldiers; that the Carthaginian was sitting at Cannae, bargaining over the captors’ —
pretiis3 praedaque alia nec victoris animo nec magni ducis more nundinantem.
ransom and other booty, in a manner suited neither to the spirit of a victor nor the custom of a great leader.
tum privatae quoque per domos clades vulgatae sunt, adeoque totam urbem opplevit luctus, ut sacrum anniversarium Cereris intermissum sit, quia nec lugentibus id facere est fas nec ulla in illa tempestate matrona expers luctus fuerat.
Then private disasters also became known through the houses, and grief so filled the whole city that the annual festival of Ceres was suspended, because it is not religiously permissible for those in mourning to perform it, and at that time no matron had been free from mourning.
itaque ne ob eandem causam alia quoque sacra publica aut privata desererentur, senatus consulto diebus triginta luctus est finitus.
Therefore, lest for the same reason other public or private rites should also be abandoned, by a decree of the senate the mourning was limited to thirty days.
ceterum cum sedato urbis tumultu revocati in curiam patres essent, aliae insuper ex Sicilia litterae allatae sunt ab T. Otacilio propraetore, regnum Hieronis a classe Punica vastari;
But when, after the tumult of the city was quieted, the senators had been recalled to the senate house, another letter besides was brought from Sicily from the propraetor Titus Otacilius: that the kingdom of Hiero was being laid waste by a Carthaginian fleet;
cui opem inploranti ferre vellet,4 nuntiatum sibi esse aliam classem ad Aegates insulas stare paratam instructamque, ut, ubi se versum ad tuendam Syracusanam oram Poeni sensissent, Lilybaeum extemplo provinciamque aliam Romanam adgrederentur. itaque classe opus esse, si regem socium Siciliamque tueri vellent.
and that when he wished to bring help to him as he implored aid, it had been reported to him that another fleet was lying ready and equipped at the Aegates islands, so that, as soon as the Carthaginians perceived that he had turned to protect the Syracusan coast, they might immediately attack Lilybaeum and the other Roman province. Therefore, there was need of a fleet, if they wished to protect their ally the king and Sicily.
- 22.56.1pedibus omnes issent
An idiomatic expression referring to the voting procedure in the Roman Senate, 'pedibus ire in sententiam' (to walk over to a proposal), where senators expressed their assent by physically moving to the side of the proposer.
- 22.56.2sese Canusii esse ... colligentem
An accusative with infinitive (ACI) construction in the indirect speech introduced by 'litterae allatae sunt'. 'sese' refers to the writer of the letter, the consul Terentius himself, and is modified by the agreeing present participle 'colligentem'.
- 22.56.3pretiis
An ablative noun governed by the preposition 'in' continuing from 'in captivorum' at the end of the previous section (§22.56.2), forming 'in captivorum pretiis praedaque alia...'. Meaning 'concerning the ransom of prisoners and other booty'.
- 22.56.7cui opem inploranti ferre vellet
The relative pronoun 'cui' is a relative connection (connecting relative) referring to 'Hiero'. 'vellet' is in the subjunctive (imperfect, in sequence with the historical main verb) because it stands in a subordinate clause (a cum-clause of time/circumstance) within indirect speech ('nuntiatum sibi esse'). The subject is the propraetor Otacilius.
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