§852ἐν τούτῳ δὲ καὶ Ἀσδρούβας ὁ ἀδελφὸς Ἀννίβου, τὴν στρατιὰν ἣν ἐξενάγησεν ἐν τοῖς Κελτίβηρσιν ἔχων, διέβαινεν ἐς τὴν Ἰταλίαν, καὶ Κελτῶν φιλίως αὐτὸν δεχομένων τὰ Ἄλπεια ὄρη, ὡδοποιημένα πρότερον ὑπὸ Ἀννίβου, διώδευε δύο μησίν, ὅσα τέως Ἀννίβας ἓξ διῆλθεν.
Meanwhile, Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, having the army which he had recruited among the Celtiberians, was crossing into Italy. Since the Celts received him friendly, he traversed the Alps—the way having been prepared previously by Hannibal—in two months, whereas Hannibal previously had crossed them in six.
ἐσέβαλέ τε ἐς Τυρρηνίαν ἄγων πεζοὺς μὲν τετρακισμυρίους ἐπὶ ὀκτακισχιλίοις, ἱππέας δὲ ὀκτακισχιλίους καὶ ἐλέφαντας πεντεκαίδεκα.
He invaded Etruria, leading forty-eight thousand infantry, eight thousand cavalry, and fifteen elephants.
καὶ γράμματα πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἔπεμπε, δηλῶν ὅτι παρείη.
He sent letters to his brother, declaring that he had arrived.
τούτων τῶν γραμμάτων ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἁλόντων, οἱ ὕπατοι Σαλινάτωρ καὶ Νέρων μαθόντες αὐτοῦ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς στρατιᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν γραμμάτων, συνῆλθον ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ πάσαις ταῖς δυνάμεσι, καὶ ἀντεστρατοπέδευσαν αὐτῷ περὶ πόλιν Σήνας.
When these letters were captured by the Romans, the consuls Salinator and Nero, learning the size of his army from the letters, united into one place with all their forces and encamped opposite him near the city of Sena.
ὁ δʼ οὔπω μάχεσθαι κεκρικώς, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀδελφῷ συνελθεῖν ἐπειγόμενος, ὑπεχώρει.
But Hasdrubal, not yet having decided to fight, but hastening to join his brother, retreated.
καὶ νυκτὸς ἀναζεύξας περὶ ἕλη καὶ τέλματα καὶ ποταμὸν οὐκ εὔπορον ἠλᾶτο, μέχρι φανείσης ἡμέρας οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι καταλαβόντες αὐτοὺς διερριμμένους τε καὶ κεκμηκότας ὑπʼ ἀγρυπνίας καὶ κόπου, πλείστους μὲν αὐτῶν ἅμα τοῖς ταξιάρχοις συντασσομένους ἔτι καὶ συνιόντας διέφθειραν, καὶ αὐτὸν ἐπʼ ἐκείνοις Ἀσδρούβαν, πλείστους δʼ αἰχμαλώτους ἔλαβον, καὶ μεγάλου δέους ἀπήλλαξαν τὴν Ἰταλίαν, ἀμάχου ἂν σφίσι του Ἀννίβου γενομένου, εἰ καὶ τήνδε τὴν στρατιὰν προσέλαβεν.
Decamping by night, he wandered around marshes, bogs, and a river not easy to cross, until daybreak, when the Romans overtook them, scattered and exhausted from lack of sleep and toil. They destroyed most of them while they were still trying to form ranks and come together along with their officers, and Hasdrubal himself among them; they also took very many prisoners, and freed Italy from a great fear, since Hannibal would have become invincible to them if he had also received this army.
§853θεὸς δέ μοι δοκεῖ τόδε Ῥωμαίοις ἀντιδοῦναι τῆς ἐπὶ Κάνναις ἀτυχίας, οὐ πόρρω τε ἐπʼ ἐκείνῃ καὶ ἰσοστάσιόν πως ἐκείνῃ γενόμενον·
It seems to me that a god gave this to the Romans in return for their disaster at Cannae, happening not far from that one and being in some way equal to it.
στρατηγοί τε γὰρ οἱ ἑκατέρων ἀπώλοντο, καὶ στρατοῦ πλῆθος ἐγγυτάτω μάλιστα ἐπʼ ἴσης, καὶ τὰ αἰχμάλωτα πολλὰ γενέσθαι καὶ τοῖσδε κἀκείνοις συνηνέχθη, στρατοπέδων τε καὶ παρασκευῆς τῆς ἀλλήλων δαψιλοῦς ἐκράτουν ἑκάτεροι.
For the generals of both sides perished, and the number of the armies was very nearly equal, and it happened to both to take many prisoners, and each got possession of the other's camp and abundant equipment.
οὕτω παραλλὰξ ἡ πόλις εὐτυχιῶν καὶ συμφορῶν ἐπειρᾶτο.
Thus the city by turns experienced good fortune and disasters.
Κελτιβήρων δʼ ὅσοι διέφυγον ἐκ τοῦ κακοῦ, οἱ μὲν ἐς τὰ οἰκεῖα οἱ δʼ ἐς Ἀννίβαν ἐχώρουν.
As many of the Celtiberians as escaped from the disaster, some returned to their own homes and others went to Hannibal.
§854ὁ δʼ ἐπί τε τῷ ἀδελφῷ καὶ στρατιᾷ τοσῇδε διʼ ἀπειρίαν ὁδῶν αἰφνίδιον ἀπολωλυίᾳ δυσφορῶν, καὶ τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατον ἔτος ἔχων ἐν πονοις ἀτρύτοις ἐξ οὗ Ῥωμαίοις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ διεπολέμει, πάντων τε ὧν εἰλήφει πρότερον ἐκπεπτωκώς, ἐς Βρεττίους, ὅπερ αὐτῷ λοιπὸν ἔθνος ὑπήκοον ἦν, ἀνεχώρει, καὶ ἡσύχαζεν ὡς ἑτέρας δυνάμεως ἀφιξομένης ἀπὸ Καρχηδόνος.
Hannibal, grieving for his brother and for so great an army suddenly destroyed through ignorance of the roads, and being in his fourteenth year of ceaseless labors since he had been waging war against the Romans in Italy, having fallen from all that he had previously captured, retreated into the territory of the Bruttians, which was the only nation remaining subject to him, and remained quiet, as if another force would arrive from Carthage.
οἱ δʼ ἔπεμψαν μὲν αὐτῷ ναῦς ἑκατὸν στρογγύλας, ἐφʼ ὧν σῖτός τε ἦν καὶ στρατιὰ καὶ χρήματα, οὐδενὸς δʼ ἐρετικοῦ παραπέμποντος αὐτὰς ἄνεμος ἐς Σαρδόνα κατήνεγκε, καὶ ὁ τῆς Σαρδόνος στρατηγὸς ἐπιπλεύσας μακραῖς ναυσὶ κατέδυσε μὲν αὐτῶν εἴκοσιν, ἑξήκοντα δʼ ἔλαβεν· αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ διέφυγον ἐς Καρχηδόνα.
They indeed sent him a hundred merchant ships, on which were grain, an army, and money; but since no warship convoyed them, the wind carried them down to Sardinia, and the governor of Sardinia, sailing against them with warships, sank twenty of them and captured sixty, while the rest escaped to Carthage.
καὶ ὁ Ἀννίβας ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀπορούμενός τε καὶ τὰ παρὰ Καρχηδονίων ἀπεγνωκώς, οὐδὲ Μάγωνος αὐτῷ τι, τοῦ ξενολογοῦντος ἐν Κελτοῖς καὶ Λίγυσιν, ἐπιπέμποντος, ἀλλὰ τὸ μέλλον ἔσεσθαι περιορωμένου, συνιδὼν ὅτι μένειν ἐπὶ πλεῖον οὐ δυνήσεται, αὐτῶν ἤδη Βρεττίων ὡς ἀλλοτρίων ὅσον οὔπω γενησομένων κατεφρόνει, καὶ ἐσφορὰς ἐπέβαλλεν αὐτοῖς πάνυ πολλάς, τάς τε ὀχυρὰς τῶν πόλεων μετῴκιζεν ἐς τὰ πεδινὰ ὡς βουλευούσας ἀπόστασιν, πολλούς τε τῶν ἀνδρῶν αἰτιώμενος διέφθειρεν, ἵνα τὰς περιουσίας αὐτῶν σφετερίζοιτο.
And Hannibal, being still more at a loss and having despaired of help from Carthage—since Mago, who was recruiting among the Celts and Ligurians, sent him nothing but was waiting to see what would happen—perceived that he would not be able to remain longer. He already began to look down upon the Bruttians themselves as people who would very soon become hostile, and imposed very many taxes on them, and relocated the populations of their fortified cities to the plains on the ground that they were planning revolt, and executed many of the men on false accusations so that he might confiscate their properties.