§28.38.1haec in Hispania P. Scipionis ductu auspicioque gesta.
These things were performed in Spain under the leadership and auspices of P. Scipio.
ipse L. Lentulo et L. Manlio Acidino provincia tradita decem navibus Romam rediit et senatu extra urbem dato in aede Bellonae, §28.38.2quas res in Hispania gessisset, disseruit, quotiens signis conlatis dimicasset, quot oppida ex hostibus vi cepisset, quas gentes in dicionem populi Romani redegisset: adversus quattuor se imperatores, §28.38.3quattuor victores exercitus in Hispaniam isse, neminem Carthaginiensem in iis terris reliquisse.
He himself, having handed over the province to L. Lentulus and L. Manlius Acidinus, returned to Rome with ten ships, and when the Senate was granted to him outside the city in the temple of Bellona, he detailed what things he had performed in Spain, how many times he had fought in pitched battles, how many towns he had taken from the enemy by force, and what nations he had brought under the dominion of the Roman people: that against four generals and four victorious armies he had gone into Spain, and had left no Carthaginian in those lands.
§28.38.4ob has res gestas magis temptata est triumphi spes quam petita pertinaciter, quia neminem ad eam diem triumphasse, qui sine magistratu res gessisset, constabat.
Because of these achievements, a hope of a triumph was rather sounded out than persistently sought, because it was established that up to that day no one had triumphed who had performed achievements without a magistracy.
§28.38.5senatu misso urbem est ingressus argentique prae se in aerarium tulit decem quattuor milia pondo trecenta quadraginta duo et signati argenti magnum numerum.
When the Senate was dismissed, he entered the city and carried before him into the treasury fourteen thousand three hundred and forty-two pounds of silver and a great quantity of coined silver.
§28.38.6comitia inde creandis consulibus habuit L. Veturius Philo, centuriaeque omnes ingenti favore P. Scipionem consulem dixerunt; §28.38.7collega additur ei P. Licinius Crassus pontifex maximus.
Then L. Veturius Philo held the assembly for electing consuls, and all the centuries with immense favor declared P. Scipio consul; added to him as colleague was P. Licinius Crassus, the pontifex maximus.
ceterum comitia maiore quam ulla per id bellum celebrata frequentia proditum memoriae est: §28.38.8convenerant undique non suffragandi modo, sed etiam spectandi causa P. Scipionis, concurrebantque et domum frequentes et in Capitolium ad immolantem eum, cum centum bubus votis in Hispania Ioui sacrificaret, despondebantque animis,
Moreover, it is recorded in memory that this assembly was attended with a greater crowd than any other during that war: they had assembled from all sides not only for the sake of voting, but also of seeing P. Scipio, and they kept flocking both to his house and to the Capitol when he was sacrificing, as he sacrificed to Jupiter with a hundred bulls vowed in Spain, and they pledged in their minds that just as C.
§28.38.9sicut C. Lutatius superius bellum Punicum finisset, ita id, quod instaref, P. Cornelium finiturum atque, §28.38.10uti Hispania omni Poenos expulisset, sic Italia pulsurum esse, Africamque ei, perinde ac debellatum in Italia foret, provinciam destinabant.
Lutatius had ended the former Punic war, so P. Cornelius would end this one which was imminent, and, just as he had expelled the Carthaginians from all Spain, so he would expel them from Italy; and they were destinating Africa as his province, just as if the war had already been finished in Italy.
§28.38.11praetoria inde comitia habita.
Then the praetorian assembly was held.
creati duo, qui tum aediles plebis erant, Sp.
There were elected two who were then plebeian aediles, Sp.
Lucretius et Cn.
Lucretius and Cn.
Octavius, et ex privatis Cn.
Octavius, and from private citizens Cn.
Servilius Caepio et L. Aemilius Papus.
Servilius Caepio and L. Aemilius Papus.
§28.38.12quarto decimo anno Punici belli P. Cornelius Scipio et P. Licinius Crassus ut consulatum inierunt, nominatae consulibus provinciae sunt, Sicilia Scipioni extra sortem, concedente collega, quia sacrorum cura pontificem maximum in Italia retinebat, Bruttii Crasso.
In the fourteenth year of the Punic War, when P. Cornelius Scipio and P. Licinius Crassus entered upon the consulship, the provinces were named for the consuls: Sicily for Scipio, outside the lot, by the concession of his colleague, because the care of sacred rites detained the pontifex maximus in Italy; the Bruttii for Crassus.
tum praetoriae provinciae in sortem coniectae.
Then the praetorian provinces were cast into the lot.
§28.38.13urbana Cn.
The urban jurisdiction fell to Cn.
Servilio obtigit, Ariminum — ita Galliam appellabant — Sp.
Servilius, Ariminum—for so they called Gaul—to Sp.
Lucretio, Sicilia L. Aemilio, Cn.
Lucretius, Sicily to L.
Octavio Sardinia.
Aemilius, and Sardinia to Cn. Octavius.
senatus in Capitolio habitus.
The Senate was held on the Capitol.
§28.38.14ibi referente P. Scipione senatus consultum factum est, ut, quos ludos inter seditionem militarem in Hispania vovisset, ex ea pecunia, quam ipse in aerarium detulisset, faceret.
There, on the motion of P. Scipio, a decree of the Senate was made that he should celebrate the games which he had vowed during the military mutiny in Spain, out of that money which he himself had brought into the treasury.