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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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Scipio encourages his troops in Spain and retires to Tarraco, while the enemy generals withdraw to their respective winter quarters in fear. Meanwhile at Tarentum, the Carthaginian fleet blockading the Roman garrison causes a severe food shortage for their own allies and is eventually dismissed.
profectus ab Tarracone et civitates sociorum et hiberna exercitus adiit, conlaudavitque milites, quod duabus tantis deinceps cladibus icti provinciam obtinuissent nec fructum secundarum rerum sentire hosti passi1 omni cis Hiberum agro eos arcuissent sociosque cum fide tutati essent.
Setting out from Tarraco, he visited both the states of the allies and the winter quarters of the army, and highly praised the soldiers because, though struck by two successive disasters of such magnitude, they had maintained the province and had not allowed the enemy to feel the fruit of their success, but had kept them off from all the territory on this side of the Ebro, and had faithfully protected the allies.
Marcium secum habebat cum tanto honore, ut facile appareret nihil minus vereri quam ne2 quis obstaret gloriae suae.
He kept Marcius with him in such great honor that it was easily apparent that he feared nothing less than that anyone should stand in the way of his glory.
successit inde Neroni Silanus, et in hiberna milites novi deducti. Scipio omnibus, quae adeunda agendaque erant, mature aditis peractisque Tarraconem concessit.
Thereupon Silanus succeeded Nero, and the new soldiers were led into winter quarters. Scipio, having seasonably visited and accomplished all things which had to be visited and done, retired to Tarraco.
nihilo minor fama apud hostis Scipionis erat quam apud civis sociosque, et divinatio quaedam futuri, quo minus ratio timoris reddi poterat oborti temere, maiorem inferens metum.3
By no means less was the fame of Scipio among the enemies than among the citizens and allies, and there was a certain premonition of the future, which, the less the cause of a fear that had arisen blindly could be accounted for, inspired all the greater terror.
in hiberna diversi concesserant, Hasdrubal Gisgonis usque ad Oceanum et Gadis, Mago in mediterranea maxime supra Castulonensem saltum; Hasdrubal Hamilcaris filius proximus Hibero circa Saguntum hibernavit.
They had retired to different winter quarters: Hasdrubal, son of Gisgo, as far as the Ocean and Gades; Mago chiefly into the inland parts above the forest of Castulo; Hasdrubal, son of Hamilcar, wintered near Saguntum, closest to the Ebro.
aestatis eius extremo qua capta est Capua et Scipio in Hispaniam venit, Punica classis ex Sicilia Tarentum accita ad arcendos commeatus praesidi Romani, quod in arce Tarentina erat, clauserat quidem omnis ad arcem a mari aditus, sed adsidendo diutius artiorem annonam sociis quam hosti faciebat.
At the end of that summer in which Capua was captured and Scipio came into Spain, the Carthaginian fleet, summoned from Sicily to Tarentum to block the supplies of the Roman garrison, which was in the Tarentine citadel, had indeed closed all approaches to the citadel from the sea, but by blockading it too long, it made the price of provisions tighter for the allies than for the enemy.
non enim tantum subvehi oppidanis per pacata litora apertosque portus praesidio navium Punicarum poterat, quantum frumenti classis ipsa turba navali mixta ex omni genere hominum absumebat,4 ut arcis praesidium etiam sine invecto, quia pauci erant, ex ante praeparato sustentari posset, Tarentinis classique ne invectum quidem sufficeret.
For not so much grain could be brought in for the townsmen along peaceful shores and through open ports under the protection of the Carthaginian ships, as the fleet itself consumed, with its naval crowd mixed of all classes of people, so that while the garrison of the citadel, because they were few, could be sustained from what had been previously prepared even without any imported supply, not even the imported supply was sufficient for the Tarentines and the fleet.
tandem maiore gratia quam venerat classis dimissa est. annona haud multum laxaverat, quia remoto maritimo praesidio subvehi frumentum non poterat.
At length the fleet was dismissed, with greater gratitude than it had come. The price of provisions had not eased much, because, once the maritime guard was removed, grain could not be brought in.
- 26.20.2hosti passi
The participle passi (nominative plural agreeing with milites) governs the infinitive sentire. While patior usually takes an accusative with the infinitive (hostem... sentire), the dative hosti is used here, either under the influence of verbs of 'permitting' taking the dative, or as a dative of reference with sentire ('allowing it to be felt by the enemy').
- 26.20.3nihil minus vereri quam ne
A strong negative expression meaning 'fearing nothing less than...' (i.e., 'not fearing at all'). The structure combines the comparative idiom nihil minus... quam with the subjunctive noun clause introduced by ne (lest / that) depending on the verb of fearing vereri.
- 26.20.5quo minus ratio timoris reddi poterat oborti temere, maiorem inferens metum
A correlative construction of proportion, quo... [eo] maiorem (the less... the greater...), with eo being omitted. The genitive participial phrase oborti temere modifies timoris. It expresses that the less the cause of the blindly arisen fear could be explained, the greater the terror it inspired.
- 26.20.9non enim tantum subvehi... poterat, quantum... absumebat
A comparative construction of non tantum... quantum. Against the impersonal verb poterat with the infinitive subvehi in the main clause, the correlative quantum clause takes the partitive genitive frumenti as its antecedent and has absumebat as its verb, meaning 'not so much [grain] could be brought in as the fleet consumed' (i.e., the consumption exceeded the import).