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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 next day, Scipio dictates strict peace conditions to the Carthaginian ambassadors; in the assembly, Hannibal physically stops Gisgo from opposing peace and, apologizing for his unfamiliarity with civil customs, argues for the necessity of peace. The resolution of the looted property issue during the armistice and an alternative account of Hannibal's flight to King Antiochus are also mentioned.
postero die revocatis legatis et cum multa castigatione perfidiae monitis,1 ut tot cladibus edocti tandem deos et ius iurandum esse crederent, condiciones pacis dictae, ut liberi legibus suis viverent;2
On the following day, the ambassadors having been recalled and admonished with a severe castigation for their treachery, so that, having been taught by so many disasters, they might at last believe in the existence of the gods and the sanctity of an oath, the conditions of peace were dictated: that they should live as free men under their own laws;
quas urbes quosque agros quibusque finibus ante bellum tenuissent, tenerent, populandique finem eo die Romanus faceret;
they should hold the cities and lands, within the same boundaries, which they had held before the war, and on that day the Roman should make an end of plundering;
perfugas fugitivosque et captivos omnes redderent Romanis et naves rostratas praeter decem triremes traderent elephantosque, quos haberent, domitos, neque domarent alios;
they should restore to the Romans all deserters, fugitives, and captives, and deliver up all their rostrate ships except ten triremes, and also the elephants which they had, already tamed, and they should not tame any others;
bellum neve in Africa neve extra Africam iniussu populi Romani gererent;
they should not wage war either in Africa or outside of Africa without the order of the Roman people;
Masinissae res redderent foedusque cum eo facerent; frumentum stipendiumque auxiliis, donec ab Roma legati redissent, praestarent. decem milia talentum argenti, discripta pensionibus aequis in annos quinquaginta, solverent; obsides centum arbitratu Scipionis darent, ne minores quattuordecim annis neu triginta maiores. indutias ita se daturum, si3 per priores indutias naves onerariae captae, quaeque fuissent in navibus, restituerentur; aliter nec indutias nec spem pacis ullam esse.
they should restore to Masinissa his property and make a treaty with him; they should provide grain and pay for the auxiliaries until the ambassadors returned from Rome. They should pay ten thousand talents of silver, divided into equal payments over fifty years; they should give one hundred hostages at the discretion of Scipio, not younger than fourteen years nor older than thirty. He stated that he would grant an armistice only if the transports captured during the previous armistice, and whatever had been in the ships, were restored; otherwise, there would be neither armistice nor any hope of peace.
has condiciones legati cum domum referre iussi in contione ederent, et Gisgo ad dissuadendam pacem processisset audireturque a multitudine inquieta eadem et inbelli, indignatus Hannibal dici ea in tali tempore audirique, arreptum Gisgonem manu sua ex superiore loco detraxit. quae insueta liberae civitati species cum fremitum populi movisset, perturbatus militaris vir urbana libertate4 “novem” inquit “annorum a vobis profectus post sextum et tricesimum annum redii. militares artes, quas me a puero fortuna nunc privata nunc publica docuit, probe videor scire;
When the ambassadors, ordered to carry these conditions home, published them in the assembly, and Gisgo had come forward to dissuade them from peace and was being heard by the restless and at the same time unwarlike multitude, Hannibal, indignant that such things should be said 57S and heard at such a time, seized Gisgo and dragged him down with his own hand from the higher place. When this sight, unusual in a free state, had caused a murmur among the people, the military man, perturbed by city freedom, said, “Having set out from you at nine years of age, I have returned after thirty-six years. The military arts, which fortune, now private, now public, has taught me from my boyhood, I seem to know well;
urbis ac fori iura, leges, mores vos me oportet doceatis.” excusata inprudentia de pace multis verbis disseruit, quam nec iniqua et necessaria esset.5
the rights, laws, and customs of the city and the forum you ought to teach me.” Having excused his imprudence, he discoursed at length on peace, showing how it was neither unfair and was indeed necessary.
id omnium maxime difficile erat, quod ex navibus per indutias captis nihil praeter ipsas comparebat naves; nec inquisitio erat facilis, adversantibus paci qui arguerentur.
This of all things was the most difficult, because of the ships captured during the armistice, nothing appeared except the ships themselves; nor was the inquiry easy, since those who were accused opposed peace.
placuit naves reddi et homines utique inquiri; cetera, quae abessent, aestimanda Scipioni permitti, atque ita pecunia luere is Carthaginienses.6
It was resolved that the ships should be restored and the men especially sought out; that the other things which were missing should be left to Scipio for evaluation, and thus the Carthaginians should make amends for them with money.
sunt, qui Hannibalem ex acie ad mare pervenisse, inde praeparata nave ad regem Antiochum extemplo profectum tradant, postulantique ante omnia Scipioni, ut Hannibal sibi traderetur, responsum esse Hannibalem in Africa non esse.
There are those who report that Hannibal fled from the battle to the sea, and thence immediately set out in a prepared ship to King Antiochus, and that when Scipio demanded, before all things, that Hannibal should be surrendered to him, the answer was given that Hannibal was not in Africa.
- 30.37.1revocatis legatis et cum multa castigatione perfidiae monitis
revocatis legatis and monitis form an ablative absolute construction with the noun legatis. cum multa castigatione modifies the participle monitis, meaning 'admonished with a severe castigation.'
- 30.37.1ut liberi legibus suis viverent
The ut clause specifies the substance of the condiciones pacis ('conditions of peace'). The subsequent subjunctive verbs in §30.37.2 to §30.37.5 (such as tenerent, faceret, redderent, traderent, gererent, solverent, darent) are all indirect commands grammatically coordinated with this initial clause.
- 30.37.6indutias ita se daturum, si
An indirect discourse with the verb of saying omitted; se daturum [esse] is the accusative and infinitive. The correlative construction ita ... si expresses a restrictive condition ('only if...').
- 30.37.8perturbatus militaris vir urbana libertate
This phrase describes how the 'military man' (militaris vir, referring to Hannibal) was 'perturbed' (perturbatus) by 'civic freedom' (urbana libertate, the ablative of cause or means).
- 30.37.10quam nec iniqua et necessaria esset
quam is an interrogative adverb of degree ('how'). It introduces an indirect question clause serving as the object of disseruit ('he discussed'), with the subjunctive imperfect esset.
- 30.37.12atque ita pecunia luere is Carthaginienses
luere is an infinitive with Carthaginienses as its subject accusative, forming part of the clause dependent on the impersonal verb placuit ('it was resolved'). is is an archaic spelling of eis (neuter plural accusative referring to the preceding cetera, 'the other missing things'), serving as the direct object of luere ('to atone for them with money').
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