§26.21.1eiusdem aestatis exitu M. Marcellus ex Sicilia provincia cum ad urbem venisset, a C. Calpurnio praetore senatus ei ad aedem Bellonae datus est.
At the close of the same summer, when Marcus Marcellus came to the city from the province of Sicily, an audience of the senate was granted to him by Gaius Calpurnius, the praetor, at the temple of Bellona.
§26.21.2ibi cum de rebus ab se gestis disseruisset, questus leniter non suam magis quam militum vicem, quod provincia confecta exercitum deportare non licuisset, postulavit, triumphanti urbem inire liceret.
Having there discoursed upon the things achieved by him, complaining gently not so much of his own condition as of that of his soldiers, because, the province having been thoroughly pacified, it had not been permitted to bring back the army, he requested that he might be allowed to enter the city in triumph.
§26.21.3id non impetravit.
This he did not obtain.
cum multis verbis actum esset utrum minus conveniret, cuius nomine absentis ob res prospere ductu eius gestas supplicatio decreta foret et dis immortalibus habitus honos, §26.21.4ei praesenti negare triumphum, an quem tradere exercitum successori iussissent, quod nisi manente in provincia bello non decerneretur, eum quasi debellato triumphare, cum exercitus testis meriti atque immeriti triumphi abesset, medium visum, ut ovans urbem iniret.
When it had been discussed with many words, which of the two would be less fitting: to deny a triumph to him present, in whose name, though absent, a thanksgiving had been decreed and honor paid to the immortal gods on account of the things successfully achieved under his leadership, or that he, whom they had ordered to hand over the army to a successor—which would not be decreed unless a war still remained in the province—should triumph as if the war were finished, while the army, the witness of a deserved or undeserved triumph, was absent; at length a middle course was seen as best, that he should enter the city in ovation.
§26.21.5tribuni plebis ex auctoritate senatus ad populum tulerunt, ut M. Marcello, quo die urbem ovans iniret, imperium esset.
The tribunes of the plebs, by the authority of the senate, proposed to the people that Marcus Marcellus should have military command on the day he entered the city in ovation.
§26.21.6pridie quam urbem iniret, in monte Albano triumphavit; inde ovans multam prae se praedam in urbem intulit:
On the day before he entered the city, he triumphed on the Alban Mount; from there, in ovation, he brought a great amount of booty before him into the city.
§26.21.7cum simulacro captarum Syracusarum catapultae ballistaeque et alia omnia instrumenta belli lata et pacis diuturnae regiaeque opulentiae ornamenta, §26.21.8argenti aerisque fabrefacti vis, alia supellex pretiosaque vestis et multa nobilia signa, quibus inter primas Graeciae urbes Syracusae ornatae fuerant.
Together with a model of captured Syracuse, catapults, ballistas, and all other engines of war were carried, as well as the ornaments of a long peace and of royal opulence, a great quantity of wrought silver and bronze, other furniture, costly vestments, and many noble statues with which Syracuse, among the chief cities of Greece, had been adorned.
§26.21.9Punicae quoque victoriae signum octo ducti elephanti.
Eight elephants led in the procession were also a symbol of victory over the Carthaginians.
et non minimum fuere spectaculum cum coronis aureis praecedentes Sosis Syracusanus et Moericus Hispanus, §26.21.10quorum altero duce nocturno Syracusas introitum erat, alter Nasum quodque ibi praesidii erat prodiderat.
And it was no small spectacle when Sosis of Syracuse and Moericus the Spaniard preceded with golden crowns, under the guidance of the former of whom entry had been made into Syracuse by night, while the latter had betrayed Nasus and the garrison that was there.
§26.21.11his ambobus civitas data et quingena iugera agri, Sosidi in agro Syracusano, qui aut regius aut hostium populi Romani fuisset, et aedes Syracusis cuius vellet eorum, in quos belli iure animadversum esset; §26.21.12Moerico Hispanisque, qui cum eo transierant, urbs agerque in Sicilia ex iis, qui a populo Romano defecissent, iussa dari.
To both of these citizenship was given and five hundred iugera of land apiece: to Sosis in the territory of Syracuse, which had belonged either to the king or to the enemies of the Roman people, and a house in Syracuse of any of those against whom measures had been taken by the law of war; to Moericus and the Spaniards who had gone over with him, a city and land in Sicily from among those who had revolted from the Roman people were ordered to be given.
§26.21.13id M. Cornelio mandatum, ut, is ubi ei videretur, urbem agrumque eis adsignaret.
This was mandated to Marcus Cornelius, that he should assign the city and land to them wherever it seemed good to him.
in eodem agro Belligeni, per quem inlectus ad transitionem Moericus erat, quadringenta iugera agri decreta.
In the same land, four hundred iugera of land were decreed to Belligenes, by whom Moericus had been enticed to defect.
§26.21.14post profectionem ex Sicilia Marcelli Punica classis octo milia peditum, tria Numidarum equitum exposuit.
After the departure of Marcellus from Sicily, the Carthaginian fleet landed eight thousand infantry and three thousand Numidian cavalry.
ad eos Murgentia et Ergetium urbes defecere.
To them the cities of Murgentia and Ergetium revolted.
secutae defectionem earum Hybla et Macella sunt et ignobiliores quaedam aliae.
Following their defection, Hybla and Macella, and certain other less famous ones, did the same.
§26.21.15et Numidae praefecto Muttine vagi per totam Siciliam sociorum populi Romani agros urebant.
Also the Numidians, under their leader Muttines, wandering through all Sicily, were burning the fields of the allies of the Roman people.
§26.21.16super haec exercitus Romanus iratus, partim; quod cum imperatore non devectus ex provincia esset. partim quod in oppidis hibernare vetiti erant, segni fungebantur militia, magisque eis auctor ad seditionem quam animus deerat.
Besides these things, the Roman army, being angry, partly because they had not been brought back from the province with their commander, and partly because they had been forbidden to winter in the towns, performed their military service sluggishly, and they lacked a leader for mutiny rather than the will.
§26.21.17inter has difficultates M. Cornelius praetor et militum animos nunc consolando nunc castigando sedavit et civitates omnis, quae defecerant. in dicionem redegit atque ex iis Murgentiam Hispanis, quibus urbs agerque debebatur ex senatus consulto, attribuit.
Amidst these difficulties, Marcus Cornelius the praetor, now by consoling and now by chastising, quieted the minds of the soldiers, and reduced all the states which had revolted into subjection, and from among these he assigned Murgentia to the Spaniards, to whom a city and land were due by the decree of the senate.