§26.51.1Scipio retentum secum Laelium, dum captivos obsidesque et praedam ex consilio eius disponeret, satis omnibus compositis, §26.51.2data quinqueremi e captivis atque Magone et quindecim fere senatoribus, qui simul cum eo capti erant, in navem inpositis nuntium victoriae Romam mittit.
Scipio, having kept Laelius with him while he disposed of the captives, hostages, and booty in accordance with his advice, when everything was sufficiently arranged, dispatched a messenger of the victory to Rome, having given him a quinquereme from among the captured vessels and put on board Mago and about fifteen senators who had been captured along with him.
§26.51.3ipse paucos dies, quibus morari Carthagine statuerat, exercendis navalibus pedestribusque copiis absumpsit.
He himself spent the few days during which he had decided to delay at Carthage in training his naval and land forces.
§26.51.4primo die legiones in armis quattuor milium spatio decurrerunt; secundo die arma curare et tergere ante tentoria iussi; tertio die rudibus inter se in modum iustae pugnae concurrerunt praepilatisque missilibus iaculati sunt; quarto die quies data; §26.51.5quinto iterum in armis decursum est.
On the first day, the legions in arms ran a course of four miles; on the second day, they were ordered to care for and wipe their arms before their tents; on the third day, they clashed with one another with wooden swords in the manner of a real battle and threw javelins tipped with balls; on the fourth day, rest was given; on the fifth day, training in arms was run again.
hunc ordinem laboris quietisque, quoad Carthagine morati sunt, servarunt.
This order of labor and rest they maintained as long as they remained at Carthage.
§26.51.6remigium classicique milites tranquillo in altum evecti agilitatem navium simulacris navalis pugnae experiebantur.
The rowers and naval soldiers, having put out into the deep in calm weather, tested the agility of their ships in mock naval battles.
§26.51.7haec extra urbem terra marique corpora simul animosque ad bellum acuebant; urbs ipsa strepebat apparatu belli fabris omnium generum in publica officina inclusis.
These exercises outside the city by land and sea sharpened both their bodies and minds for war; the city itself was resounding with the preparation of war, with craftsmen of all kinds shut up in the public workshop.
§26.51.8dux cuncta pari cura obibat: nunc in classe ac navali erat, nunc cum legionibus decurrebat, nunc operibus aspiciendis tempus dabat, quaeque in officinis quaeque in armamentario ac navalibus fabrorum multitudoplurima in singulos dies certamine ingenti faciebat.
The general went about everything with equal care: now he was with the fleet and in the shipyard, now he was running with the legions, now he gave time to inspecting the works, and the immense quantity of things that the vast multitude of craftsmen was producing day by day in great competition in the workshops, armory, and shipyards.
§26.51.9his ita incohatis refectisque, quae quassata erant muri, dispositisque praesidiis ad custodiam urbis Tarraconem est profectus, §26.51.10a multis legationibus protinus in via aditus, quas partim dato responso ex itinere dimisit, partim distulit Tarraconem, quo omnibus novis veteribusque sociis edixerat conventum.
When these things had been thus begun and the parts of the walls that had been shattered were repaired, and garrisons were stationed for the guard of the city, he set out for Tarraco, being immediately approached on the way by many embassies, some of which he dismissed on the march after giving them an answer, while others he postponed to Tarraco, where he had proclaimed a convention for all the new and old allies.
et cuncti fere qui cis Hiberum incolunt populi, multi etiam ulterioris provinciae convenerunt.
And almost all the peoples who dwell on this side of the Hiberus, and many from the farther province as well, assembled.
§26.51.11Carthaginiensium duces primo ex industria famam captae Carthaginis conpresserunt; deinde, ut clarior res erat, quam ut tegi ac dissimulari posset, elevabant verbis: §26.51.12necopinato adventu ac prope furto unius diei urbem unam Hispaniae interceptam, cuius rei tam parvae praemio elatum insolentem iuvenem inmodico gaudio speciem magnae victoriae imposuisse; at ubi adpropinquare tres duces, §26.51.13tres victores hostium exercitus audisset, occursuram ei extemplo domesticorum funerum memoriam.
The generals of the Carthaginians at first intentionally suppressed the rumor of the capture of Carthage; then, as the matter was too famous to be concealed and disguised, they belittled it in words: saying that by an unexpected arrival and almost by a theft of a single day, one city of Spain had been intercepted, and that an insolent youth, elated by the prize of so small a matter, had put on the appearance of a great victory with immoderate joy; but when he should hear that three generals, three victorious armies of the enemy were approaching, the memory of his family's deaths would immediately rush upon him.
§26.51.14haec in vulgus iactabant, haudquaquam ipsi ignari, quantum sibi ad omnia virium Carthagine amissa decessisset.
These things they bandied about among the common people, though they themselves were by no means ignorant of how much of their strength in all matters had departed from them with the loss of Carthage.