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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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Nasica refutes the unjust accusations regarding the peace terms with Antiochus by citing the vast territories stripped from him, arguing that Scipio's persecution is driven by the enemies' envy of his great brother and their disgraceful designs.
at hercule in Scipione leges ipsas pacis, ut nimium accommodatas Antiocho, suspectas esse;1 integrum enim ei regnum relictum; omnia possidere eum victum, quae ante bellum eius fuerint;
But indeed, in Scipio’s case, the very terms of the peace are suspected as being too favorable to Antiochus; for his kingdom was left intact to him; and though defeated, he possesses everything that had been his before the war.
auri et argenti cum vim magnam habuisset, nihil in publicum relatum, omne in privatum versum;
Although he had obtained a great quantity of gold and silver, nothing was reported to the treasury, but all was turned to private use;
an praeter omnium oculos tantum auri argentique in triumpho L. Scipionis, quantum non decem aliis triumphis, si omne in unum conferatur, latum?
Or was there not carried before the eyes of all in the triumph of L. Scipio as much gold and silver as could not be carried in ten other triumphs, if all were brought together into one?
nam quid de finibus regni dicam? Asiam omnem et proxima Europae tenuisse Antiochum.
For what shall I say of the boundaries of the kingdom? That Antiochus held all Asia and the nearest parts of Europe.
ea quanta regio orbis terrarum sit, a Tauro monte in Aegaeum usque prominens mare, quot non urbes modo sed gentes amplectatur, omnes scire. hanc regionem dierum plus triginta iter in longitudinem, decem inter duo maria in latitudinem patentem usque ad Tauri montis iuga Antiocho ademptam, expulso in ultimum angulum orbis terrarum. quid, si gratuita pax esset, plus adimi ei potuisse? Philippo victo Macedoniam, Nabidi Lacedaemonem relictam, nec Quinctio crimen quaesitum; non enim habuisse eum Africanum fratrem; cuius cum gloria2 prodesse L. Scipioni debuisset, invidiam nocuisse.
How great a region of the earth that is, projecting from Mount Taurus all the way to the Aegean Sea, and how many nations, not just cities, it embraces, everyone knows. This region, extending more than thirty days’ journey in length and ten in width between the two seas, all the way to the ridges of Mount Taurus, was taken away from Antiochus, he being driven into the furthest corner of the earth. What more, even if the peace had been granted for nothing, could have been taken away from him? Macedonia was left to the defeated Philip, Lacedaemon to Nabis, nor was a charge sought against Quinctius; for he did not have Africanus as a brother; whose glory, though it ought to have profited L. Scipio, yet envy of him did him harm.
tantum auri argentique iudicatum esse in domum L. Scipionis illatum, quantum venditis omnibus bonis redigi non posset. ubi ergo esse regium aurum, ubi tot hereditates acceptas? in domo, quam sumptus non exhauserint, exstare debuisse novae fortunae cumulum. at enim, quod ex bonis redigi non possit, ex corpore et tergo per vexationem et contumelias L. Scipionis petituros inimicos, ut in carcere inter fures nocturnos et latrones vir clarissimus includatur et in robore3 et tenebris exspiret, deinde nudus ante carcerem proiciatur.
So much gold and silver has been judged to have been brought into the house of L. Scipio as could not be raised even if all his property were sold. Where then is the royal gold, where are those many inheritances that were received? In a house which expenses have not exhausted, the accumulation of a new fortune ought to be visible. But indeed, what cannot be raised from his property, his enemies will seek from the body and back of L. Scipio through harassment and insults, so that a most illustrious man may be shut up in prison among nightly thieves and robbers, and expire in the dungeon and darkness, and then be cast out naked before the prison.
non id Corneliae magis familiae quam urbi Romanae fore erubescendum.
This will be a matter of shame not so much for the Cornelia family as for the city of Rome.
- 38.59.1suspectas esse
An accusative with infinitive construction in indirect speech (oratio obliqua), where the governing verb is omitted. It continues the reporting of Nasica's speech or the accusers' claims from the previous chapter.
- 38.59.7cuius cum gloria
cuius is a relative connection (connecting relative) referring back to Africanum. cum is an adversarial or concessive conjunction ('although', 'while'). gloria is the subject of prodesse, and invidiam is the subject of nocuisse, both functioning as subjects of the infinitives in indirect speech.
- 38.59.10robore
Here, robur (strength, oak) refers to the Tullianum (the Mamertine Prison), specifically the lowest, darkest, and strongest underground dungeon which was historically said to have been enclosed with oak planks.