§25.17.1sunt qui in agro Beneventano prope Calorem fluvium contendant a castris cum lictoribus ac tribus servis lavandi causa progressum, §25.17.2cum forte inter salicta innata ripis laterent hostes, nudum atque inermem saxisque, quae volvit amnis, propugnantem interfectum.
There are those who contend that in the territory of Beneventum, near the river Calor, he went out from the camp with his lictors and three slaves for the purpose of bathing, and when by chance the enemy lay hid among the willows growing on the banks, he, naked and unarmed, defending himself with the stones which the river rolled down, was slain.
§25.17.3sunt qui haruspicum monitu quingentos passus a castris progressum, uti loco puro ea quae ante dicta prodigia sunt procuraret, ab insidentibus forte locum duabus turmis Numidarum circumventum scribant.
There are those who write that, on the advice of the haruspices, having gone out five hundred paces from the camp in order to expiate those prodigies which were mentioned before in a clean place, he was surrounded by two troops of Numidians who happened to occupy the place.
adeo nec locus nec ratio mortis in viro tam claro et insigni constat.
Thus neither the place nor the manner of death is certain in the case of a man so famous and distinguished.
funeris quoque Gracchi varia est fama.
The report of Gracchus's funeral is also various.
§25.17.4alii in castris Romanis sepultum ab suis, alii ab Hannibale — et ea vulgatior fama est — tradunt in vestibulo Punicorum castrorum rogum extructum esse, §25.17.5armatum exercitum decucurrisse cum tripudiis Hispanorum motibusque armorum et corporum suae cuique genti adsuetis, ipso Hannibale omni rerum verborumque honore exequias celebrante.
Some hand down that he was buried in the Roman camp by his own men; others, that by Hannibal—and this is the more common report—a pyre was built in the vestibule of the Carthaginian camp, and that the armed army marched in procession with the dances of the Spaniards and the motions of weapons and bodies accustomed to each nation, while Hannibal himself celebrated the funeral rites with every honor of deeds and words.
haec tradunt, qui in Lucanis rei gestae auctores sunt.
Those who are the authors of the event in Lucania hand down these things.
§25.17.6si illis, qui ad Calorem fluvium interfectum memorant, credere velis, capitis tantum Gracchi hostes potiti sunt; §25.17.7eo delato ad Hannibalem, missus ab eo confestim Carthalo, qui in castra Romana ad Cn. Cornelium quaestorem deferret.
If you should wish to believe those who record that he was killed near the river Calor, the enemy got possession of only the head of Gracchus; when this was brought to Hannibal, Carthalo was immediately sent by him to deliver it to the quaestor Gnaeus Cornelius in the Roman camp.
is funus imperatoris in castris celebrantibus cum exercitu Beneventanis fecit.
He celebrated the funeral of the general in the camp together with the people of Beneventum who were performing the rites with the army.