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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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The rebellion in Sardinia ends with the capture of Hasdrubal and the suicide of Hampsicora, after which Manlius reports the victory to Rome. Meanwhile, Otacilius defeats a Carthaginian fleet and Marcellus ravages Samnium.
ante omnia claram et memorabilem pugnam fecit Hasdrubal imperator captus1 et Hanno et Mago nobiles Carthaginienses, Mago ex gente Barcina, propinqua cognatione Hannibali iunctus, Hanno auctor rebellionis Sardis bellique eius haud dubie concitor.
Above all, the capture of the commander Hasdrubal, and of Hanno and Mago, Carthaginian nobles—Mago being of the Barcine family, connected to Hannibal by close relationship, and Hanno being the author of the rebellion among the Sardinians and undoubtedly the instigator of that war—made the battle famous and memorable.
nec Sardorum duces minus nobilem eam pugnam cladibus suis fecerunt: nam et filius Hampsicorae Hostus in acie cecidit, et Hampsicora cum paucis equitibus fugiens, ut super adflictas res2 necem quoque fili audivit, nocte, ne cuius interventus coepta inpediret, mortem sibi conscivit.
Nor did the Sardinian leaders make that battle less famous by their own disasters; for both Hostus, the son of Hampsicora, fell in the battle-line, and Hampsicora, fleeing with a few horsemen, when in addition to his ruined fortunes he heard also of the death of his son, committed suicide in the night, lest anyone’s intervention should prevent his design.
ceteris urbs Cornus eadem, quae ante, fugae receptaculum fuit; quam Manlius victore exercitu adgressus intra dies paucos recepit.
For the rest, the same city of Cornus as before was a place of refuge for their flight; Manlius, having attacked it with his victorious army, recovered it within a few days.
deinde aliae quoque civitates, quae ad Hampsicoram Poenosque defecerant, obsidibus datis dediderunt sese; quibus stipendio frumentoque imperato3 pro cuiusque aut viribus aut delicto Caralis exercitum reduxit.
Then the other states also, which had revolted to Hampsicora and the Carthaginians, surrendered themselves by giving hostages; having imposed a tribute and grain upon them according to either the resources or the guilt of each, he led the army back to Caralis.
ibi navibus longis deductis inpositoque, quem secum advexerat, milite Romam navigat Sardiniamque perdomitam nuntiat patribus; et stipendium quaestoribus, frumentum aedilibus, captivos Q. Fulvio praetori tradit.
There, having launched the warships and embarked the soldiers he had brought with him, he sailed to Rome and announced to the senators that Sardinia was thoroughly subdued; and he delivered the tribute to the quaestors, the grain to the aediles, and the captives to the praetor Quintus Fulvius.
per idem tempus T. Otacilius praetor ab Lilybaeo classi in Africam transvectus depopulatusque agrum Carthaginiensem cum Sardiniam inde peteret, quo fama erat Hasdrubalem a Balearibus nuper traiecisse, classi Africam repetenti occurrit, levique certamine in alto commisso septem inde naves cum sociis navalibus cepit. ceteras metus haud secus quam tempestas passim disiecit. per eosdem forte dies et Bomilcar cum militibus ad supplementum Carthagine missis elephantisque et commeatu Locros accessit.
About the same time, the praetor Titus Otacilius, having crossed with his fleet from Lilybaeum to Africa and ravaged the Carthaginian territory, as he was heading from there toward Sardinia, where there was a report that Hasdrubal had recently crossed from the Balearic Islands, met the fleet returning to Africa, and having engaged in a light battle on the open sea, he captured seven of their ships with their naval allies. Fear dispersed the rest in all directions, no less than a storm would have done. By chance, during the same days, Bomilcar also arrived at Locri with soldiers sent from Carthage as reinforcements, along with elephants and supplies.
quem ut incautum opprimeret, Ap. Claudius per simulationem provinciae circumeundae Messanam raptim exercitu ducto vento aestuque saevo Locros traiecit.
In order to surprise him off his guard, Appius Claudius, under the pretense of making a circuit of his province, having rapidly led his army to Messana, crossed over to Locri despite a fierce wind and tide.
iam inde Bomilcar ad Hannonem in Bruttios profectus erat, et Locrenses portas Romanis clauserunt: Appius magno conatu nulla re gesta Messanam repetit.
Bomilcar had already set out from there to Hanno in Bruttium, and the Locrians closed their gates against the Romans; Appius, after great effort but with nothing accomplished, returned to Messana.
eadem aestate Marcellus ab Nola quam praesidio obtinebat, crebras excursiones in agrum Hirpinum et Samnites Caudinos fecit adeoque omnia ferro atque igni vastavit, ut antiquarum cladium Samnio memoriam renovaret.
In the same summer, Marcellus made frequent incursions from Nola, which he was holding with a garrison, into the territory of the Hirpini and the Caudine Samnites, and so thoroughly devastated everything with fire and sword as to renew in Samnium the memory of their ancient disasters.
- 23.41.1Hasdrubal imperator captus
The phrase Hasdrubal captus (as well as the following names Hanno and Mago), which serves as the subject of the main verb fecit, functions as a dominant participle construction (also known as the ab urbe condita construction). It represents the event itself ('the capture of Hasdrubal') rather than just the person described by an adjective.
- 23.41.4super adflictas res
The preposition super governs the accusative adflictas res. Here, it is used metaphorically to express accumulation or addition ('in addition to', 'on top of') rather than its basic spatial meaning of physical location.
- 23.41.6quibus stipendio frumentoque imperato
The relative pronoun quibus refers back to the antecedent aliae civitates. While stipendio frumentoque imperato forms an ablative absolute, quibus functions as the dative object of the verb imperare ('to impose [something] upon [someone in the dative]'), rather than being part of the ablative absolute itself.