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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 new consuls both desired the command in Africa, and though the popular assembly wanted Scipio to remain, the lot assigned Africa to Claudius and Etruria to Servilius. Praetorian tasks and command extensions were settled, and the promised games were celebrated before the consuls' departure.
principio insequentis anni M. Servilius et Ti. Claudius senatu in Capitolium vocato de provinciis rettulerunt.
At the beginning of the following year, Marcus Servilius and Tiberius Claudius, having summoned the senate to the Capitol, made a motion concerning the provinces.
Italiam atque Africam in sortem coici, Africam ambo cupientes, volebant.1 ceterum Q. Metello maxime adnitente neque negata neque data est Africa;
They wished Italy and Africa to be cast into the lot, both of them desiring Africa. However, due to the utmost exertion of Quintus Metellus, Africa was neither denied nor granted;
consules iussi cum tribunis plebis agere, ut, si iis videretur, populum rogarent, quem vellent in Africa bellum gerere. omnes tribus P. Scipionem iusserunt.
the consuls were ordered to act with the tribunes of the plebs so that, if it seemed good to them, they should ask the people whom they wished to conduct the war in Africa. All the tribes ordered Publius Scipio.
nihilo minus consules provinciam Africam — ita enim senatus decreverat — in sortem coniecerunt.
Nonetheless, the consuls cast the province of Africa into the lot—for so the senate had decreed.
Ti. Claudio Africa evenit, ut2 quinquaginta navium classem, omnes quinqueremes, in Africam traiceret parique imperio cum P. Scipione esset;
Africa fell to Tiberius Claudius, on the condition that he should cross over a fleet of fifty ships, all quinqueremes, into Africa, and should have equal command with Publius Scipio;
M. Servilius Etruriam sortitus. in eadem provincia et C. Servilio prorogatum imperium, si consulem manere ad urbem senatu placuisset.
Marcus Servilius obtained Etruria by lot. In the same province, the command was also prorogued for Gaius Servilius, in case it should please the senate that the consul should remain at the city.
praetores M. Sextius Galliam est sortitus, ut duas legiones provinciamque traderet ei P. Quinctilius Varus; C. Livius Bruttios cum duabus legionibus, quibus P. Sempronius proconsul priore anno praefuerat;
As for the praetors, Marcus Sextius obtained Gallia by lot, so that Publius Quinctilius Varus should hand over to him the two legions and the province; Gaius Livius obtained the Bruttii with the two legions which Publius Sempronius the proconsul had commanded the previous year;
Cn. Tremellius Siciliam, ut a P. Villio Tappulo praetore prioris anni provinciam et duas legiones acciperet; Villius pro praetore viginti navibus longis et militibus mille oram Siciliae tutaretur;3
Gnaeus Tremellius obtained Sicily, so that he should receive the province and the two legions from Publius Villius Tappulus, the praetor of the previous year; Villius, as propraetor, was to protect the coast of Sicily with twenty warships and a thousand soldiers;
M. Pomponius viginti navibus reliquis mille et quingentos milites Romam deportaret; C. Aurelio Cottae urbana evenit.
Marcus Pomponius was to transport fifteen hundred soldiers back to Rome with the remaining twenty ships; to Gaius Aurelius Cotta fell the urban praetorship.
ceteris ita, uti quisque obtinebant provincias exercitusque, prorogata imperia. sedecim non amplius eo anno legionibus defensum imperium est.
For the others, their commands were prorogued just as each was holding their provinces and armies. The empire was defended that year by no more than sixteen legions.
et ut placatis dis omnia inciperent agerentque, ludos, quos M. Claudio Marcello, T. Quinctio consulibus T. Manlius dictator, quasque hostias maiores voverat, si per quinquennium res publica eodem statu fuisset, ut eos ludos consules, priusquam ad bellum proficiscerentur, facerent.4
And in order that they might begin and conduct all things with the gods appeased, it was decided that the consuls, before they set out for the war, should celebrate those games which the dictator Titus Manlius had vowed—as well as the larger victims he had promised—in the consulship of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Titus Quinctius, on the condition that the commonwealth should remain in the same state for five years.
ludi in circo per quadriduum facti, hostiaeque quibus votae erant dis caesae.
The games were celebrated in the circus for four days, and the victims were slain to the gods to whom they had been vowed.
- 30.27.2Italiam atque Africam in sortem coici ... volebant
This is an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction, where Italiam atque Africam is the subject accusative of the passive present infinitive coici, functioning as the direct object of the verb volebant.
- 30.27.5Ti. Claudio Africa evenit, ut...
The ut clause following the impersonal verb evenit functions as a substantive clause of result/fact, serving as the logical subject of the verb.
- 30.27.8Villius pro praetore... tutaretur
The imperfect subjunctive tutaretur (and deportaret in §30.27.9) acts as an independent jussive subjunctive, expressing a command, decision, or assigned duty decreed by the senate in historical sequence.
- 30.27.11et ut placatis dis... facerent
This long period exhibits an anacoluthon: after starting with a purpose clause (ut placatis dis...) and inserting a long description of the vowed games, the core decision is concluded by ut... facerent, which reiterates the directive force of the sentence.