§13.1Sic vir fortissimus, multis variisque perfunctus laboribus, anno acquievit septuagesimo.
Thus this most brave man, having undergone many and various hardships, found rest in his seventieth year.
quibus consulibus interierit, non convenit.
Under which consuls he died is not agreed upon.
namque Atticus M. Claudio Marcello Q. Fabio Labeone consulibus mortuum in annali suo scriptum reliquit, at Polybius L. Aemilio Paulo Cn. Baebio Tamphilo, Sulpicius autem Blitho P. Cornelio Cethego M. Baebio Tamphilo.
For Atticus left it written in his chronicle that he died in the consulship of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Quintus Fabius Labeo, while Polybius writes that he died in the consulship of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus, and Sulpicius Blitho in that of Publius Cornelius Cethegus and Marcus Baebius Tamphilus.
§13.2atque hic tantus vir tantisque bellis districtus nonnihil temporis tribuit litteris.
And this so great a man, though distracted by such great wars, devoted no small amount of time to literature.
namque aliquot eius libri sunt, Graeco sermone confecti, in eis ad Rhodios de Cn. Manlii Volsonis in Asia rebus gestis.
For there are several of his books, written in the Greek language, among them one addressed to the Rhodians concerning the deeds of Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in Asia.
§13.3huius belli gesta multi memoriae prodiderunt, sed ex eis duo, qui cum eo in castris fuerunt simulque vixerunt, quamdiu fortuna passa est, Silenus et Sosylus Lacedaemonius.
Many have recorded the deeds of this war, but among them two who were with him in the camp and lived together with him as long as fortune permitted, namely Silenus and Sosylus the Lacedaemonian.
atque hoc Sosylo Hannibal litterarum Graecarum usus est doctore.
And Hannibal used this Sosylus as his teacher of Greek literature.
§13.4Sed nos tempus est huius libri facere finem et Romanorum explicare imperatores, quo facilius collatis utrorumque factis, qui viri praeferendi sint, possit iudicari.
But it is time for us to make an end of this book and to explain the Roman commanders, so that, by comparing the deeds of both, it may be more easily judged which men are to be preferred.