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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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Roman arbitrators mediate a land dispute between Carthage and King Masinissa but refer the case undecided to the Senate. The Ligurian campaign ends, and one consul returns to Rome to hold elections amid rumors of Transalpine Gallic movements.
eodem anno inter populum Carthaginiensem et regem Masinissam in re praesenti disceptatores Romani de agro fuerunt.
In the same year, Roman arbitrators acted on the spot to settle a dispute concerning land between the Carthaginian people and King Masinissa.
ceperat eum ab Carthaginiensibus pater Masinissae Gala; Galam Syphax inde expulerat, postea in gratiam soceri Hasdrubalis Carthaginiensibus dono dederat;
Masinissa’s father Gala had taken it from the Carthaginians; Syphax had expelled Gala from there, and afterwards had given it as a gift to the Carthaginians to curry favor with his father-in-law Hasdrubal;
Carthaginienses eo anno Masinissa expulerat. haud minore certamine animorum, quam cum ferro et acie dimicarunt, res acta apud Romanos.
Masinissa had expelled the Carthaginians in that year. The case was pleaded before the Romans with no less passion of minds than when they fought with sword and battle line.
Carthaginienses, quod maiorum suorum fuisset, deinde ab Syphace ad se pervenisset, repetebant. Masinissa paterni regni agrum se et recepisse et habere gentium iure aiebat; et causa et possessione superiorem esse;
The Carthaginians demanded it back, because it had belonged to their ancestors and had subsequently come to them from Syphax. Masinissa declared that he had both recovered the land of his father’s kingdom and held it by the law of nations, and that he was superior both in his claim and in his possession;
nihil aliud se in ea disceptatione metuere, quam ne pudor Romanorum, dum vereantur,1 ne quid socio atque amico regi adversus communes suos atque illius hostes indulsisse videantur, damno2 sit.
he said that he feared nothing else in that debate than that the modesty of the Romans might be a disadvantage to him, while they feared lest they should seem to have shown some indulgence to an allied and friendly king against their and his common enemies.
legati possessionis ius non mutarunt, causam integram Romam ad senatum reiecerunt. in Liguribus nihil postea gestum. recesserant primum in devios saltus, deinde dimisso exercitu passim in vicos castellaque sua dilapsi sunt.
The legates did not alter the right of possession, but referred the case undecided to the senate in Rome. Among the Ligurians, nothing was done afterwards. They had first retreated into out-of-the-way forest-passes, and then, having disbanded their army, they dispersed everywhere into their villages and forts.
consules quoque dimittere exercitum voluerunt, ac de ea re patres consuluerunt. alterum ex iis dimisso exercitu ad magistratus in annum creandos venire Romam iusserunt, alterum cum legionibus suis Pisis hiemare.
The consuls also wished to disband their army, and consulted the senate on that matter. The senate ordered one of them, after disbanding his army, to come to Rome to elect magistrates for the year, and the other to winter at Pisae with his legions.
fama erat Gallos Transalpinos iuventutem armare, nec, in quam regionem Italiae effusura se multitudo esset, sciebatur. ita inter se consules compararunt, ut Cn. Baebius ad comitia iret, quia M. Baebius frater eius consulatum petebat.
There was a rumor that the Transalpine Gauls were arming their youth, and it was not known into which region of Italy that multitude would pour itself. Therefore, the consuls arranged between themselves that Gnaeus Baebius should go to the comitia, because his brother Marcus Baebius was seeking the consulship.
- 40.17.5dum vereantur
The subjunctive with dum here expresses a subjective reason or condition ("while they fear / in their fear that"). It is also attracted into the subjunctive because it is a subordinate clause within indirect discourse (subjunctive by attraction / oblique clause).
- 40.17.5damno
Dative of purpose (or service) meaning "as a disadvantage/loss." The dative of interest (sibi, "to him") is implied, forming a double dative construction.