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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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Confusion reigns in Tarentum, but with dawn the Carthaginian capture becomes clear. Hannibal assembles the citizens, declaims against Roman rule, and orders them to mark their doors to protect their homes, while Roman lodgings are plundered.
iam tumultus erat clamorque, qualis esse in capta urbe solet; sed, quid rei esset, nemo satis pro certo scire.1
Already there was a tumult and shouting, such as is wont to occur in a captured city; but what the matter was, no one knew with sufficient certainty.
Tarentini Romanos ad diripiendam urbem credere coortos; Romanis seditio aliqua cum fraude videri ab oppidanis mota.
The Tarentines believed that the Romans had risen up to plunder the city; to the Romans it seemed that some mutiny, accompanied by treachery, had been set in motion by the townsmen.
praefectus primo excitatus tumultu in portum effugit; inde acceptus scapha in arcem circumvehitur.
The prefect, aroused by the first tumult, fled into the harbor; thence, received in a boat, he was carried around to the citadel.
errorem et tuba audita ex theatro faciebat, nam et Romana erat, a proditoribus ad hoc ipsum praeparata, et inscienter a Graeco inflata, quis aut quibus signum daret, incertum2 efficiebat.
A trumpet-blast heard from the theater also caused confusion, for it was both Roman, prepared by the traitors for this very purpose, and, being blown unskillfully by a Greek, made it uncertain who was giving the signal, or to whom.
ubi inluxit, et Romanis Punica et Gallica arma cognita dubitationem exemerunt et Graeci Romanos passim caede stratos cernentes ab Hannibale captam urbem senserunt.
When it grew light, both to the Romans the recognized Carthaginian and Gallic arms removed all doubt, and the Greeks, seeing the Romans strewn everywhere in slaughter, perceived that the city had been captured by Hannibal.
postquam lux certior erat et Romani, qui caedibus superfuerant, in arcem confugerant conticiscebatque paulatim tumultus, tum Hannibal Tarentinos sine armis convocare iubet.
After the light was clearer and the Romans who had survived the slaughter had fled into the citadel, and the tumult was gradually quieted, then Hannibal orders the Tarentines to assemble without arms.
convenere omnes, praeterquam qui cedentis3 in arcem Romanos ad omnem adeundam simul fortunam persecuti fuerant.
All assembled, except those who had followed the Romans retreating into the citadel, to share whatever fortune they might meet.
ibi Hannibal benigne adlocutus Tarentinos testatusque, quae praestitisset civibus eorum, quos ad Trasumennum aut ad Cannas cepisset, simul in dominationem superbam Romanorum invectus, recipere se in domos suas quemque iussit et foribus nomen suum inscribere: se domos eas, quae inscriptae non essent, signo extemplo dato diripi iussurum. si quis in hospitio civis Romani _ vacuas autem tenebant domos — nomen inscripsisset eum se pro hoste habiturum.
There Hannibal, having addressed the Tarentines kindly and testified what favors he had bestowed upon their citizens whom he had captured at Trasumennum or at Cannae, at the same time inveighing against the haughty domination of the Romans, ordered everyone to return to his own home and to write his name upon the door, declaring that he would order those houses which were not inscribed to be immediately plundered upon a given signal; and if anyone should write his name upon the lodgings of a Roman citizen — now they were keeping the houses empty — he would treat him as an enemy.
contione dimissa cum titulis notatae fores discrimen pacatae ab hostili domo fecissent, signo dato ad diripienda hospitia Romana passim discursum est.4 et fuit praedae aliquantum.
The assembly having been dismissed, when the doors marked with inscriptions had made a distinction between a peaceful and a hostile house, upon a given signal they ran in all directions to plunder the Roman lodgings. And there was a considerable amount of booty.
- 25.10.1scire
scire, as well as credere and videri in §25.10.2, are historical infinitives taking nominative subjects (nemo, Tarentini, seditio aliqua). They function as imperfect or perfect indicative verbs to heighten narrative vividness.
- 25.10.4incertum
Neuter singular accusative adjective acting as an objective complement to the transitive verb efficiebat. The indirect question clause quis aut quibus signum daret functions as the virtual direct object of the verb.
- 25.10.7cedentis
An archaic spelling for cedentēs (accusative plural of the present participle), modifying Romanos. The following phrase ad omnem adeundam simul fortunam is a purpose construction using the preposition ad and a gerundive.
- 25.10.10discursum est
An impersonal passive construction of the intransitive verb discurrere in the perfect passive neuter singular, meaning "they ran in all directions" or "people rushed about."