§30.19.1Mago proximae silentio noctis profectus, quantum pati viae per vulnus poterat itineribus extentis, ad mare in Ligures Ingaunos pervenit.
Mago, having set out in the silence of the next night, with forced marches as far as he was able to endure the journey owing to his wound, arrived at the sea in the territory of the Ingaunian Ligurians.
§30.19.2ibi eum legati ab Carthagine paucis ante diebus in sinum Gallicum adpulsis navibus adierunt iubentes primo quoque tempore in Africam traicere; §30.19.3id et fratrem eius Hannibalem — nam ad eum quoque isse legatos eadem iubentes — facturum; non in eo esse Carthaginiensium res, ut Galliam atque Italiam armis obtineant.
There, envoys from Carthage, who had landed their ships in the Gallic gulf a few days before, met him, ordering him to cross over to Africa at the very first opportunity; stating that his brother Hannibal also would do this—for envoys had gone to him too, ordering the same things—and that the affairs of the Carthaginians were not in such a state that they could hold Gaul and Italy by arms.
§30.19.4Mago non imperio modo senatus periculoque patriae motus, sed metuens etiam, ne victor hostis moranti instaret, Liguresque ipsi, relinqui Italiam a Poenis cernentes, ad eos, quorum mox in potestate futuri essent, §30.19.5deficerent, simul sperans leniorem in navigatione quam in via iactationem vulneris fore et curationi omnia commodiora, impositis copiis in naves profectus, vixdum superata Sardinia ex vulnere moritur.
Mago, moved not only by the command of the senate and the danger of his country, but also fearing lest the victorious enemy should press upon him if he delayed, and lest the Ligurians themselves, seeing Italy being abandoned by the Carthaginians, should desert to those in whose power they would soon be, hoping at the same time that the tossing of his wound would be gentler in a voyage than on the road and that everything would be more convenient for his cure, set out after embarking his troops on the ships, and died of his wound when Sardinia had scarcely been passed.
naves quoque aliquot Poenorum disiectae in alto a classe Romana, quae circa Sardiniam erat, capiuntur.
Some ships of the Carthaginians also, scattered on the deep, were captured by the Roman fleet which was around Sardinia.
§30.19.6haec terra marique in parte Italiae qua iacet ad Alpes, gesta.
These things were performed by land and sea in that part of Italy which lies towards the Alps.
consul C. Servilius nulla memorabili re in provincia Etruria Galliaque — §30.19.7nam eo quoque processerat — gesta, patre C. Servilio et C. Lutatio ex servitute post sextum decimum annum receptis, qui ad vicum Tannetum a Bois capti fuerant, §30.19.8hinc patre, hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis privato magis quam publico decore insignis Romam rediit.
The consul Gaius Servilius, having performed no memorable deed in his province of Etruria and Gaul— for he had advanced thither also—his father Gaius Servilius and Gaius Lutatius, who had been captured by the Boii near the village of Tannetum, having been recovered from slavery after sixteen years, with his father on one side and Catulus on the other flanking him, returned to Rome, distinguished more by private than by public honor.
§30.19.9latum ad populum est, ne C. Servilio fraudi esset, quod patre, qui sella curuli sedisset, vivo, cum id ignoraret, tribunus plebis atque aedilis plebis fuisset, contra quam sanctum legibus erat.
A proposal was brought before the people, lest it should be a detriment to Gaius Servilius that, while his father who had sat in a curule chair was alive, although he was ignorant of it, he had been a tribune of the plebs and an aedile of the plebs, contrary to what had been sanctioned by the laws.
hac rogatione perlata in provinciam rediit.
This bill having been passed, he returned to his province.
§30.19.10ad Cn. Servilium consulem qui in Bruttiis erat, Consentia, Aufugum, Bergae, Besidiae, Ocriculum, Lymphaeum, Argentanum, Clampetia multique ignobiles populi, senescere Punicum bellum cernentes, defecere.
To the consul Gnaeus Servilius, who was in the territory of the Bruttii, Consentia, Aufugum, Bergae, Besidiae, Ocriculum, Lymphaeum, Argentanum, Clampetia, and many ignoble peoples, seeing that the Punic war was growing old, revolted.
§30.19.11idem consul cum Hannibale in agro Crotoniensi acie conflixit.
The same consul clashed in a pitched battle with Hannibal in the Crotonian territory.
obscura eius pugnae fama est.
The report of that battle is obscure.
Valerius Antias quinque milia hostium caesa ait; quae tanta res est, ut aut impudenter ficta sit aut neglegenter praetermissa.
Valerius Antias says that five thousand of the enemy were slain; which is so great an event that it must either have been impudently fabricated or negligently omitted.
§30.19.12nihil certe ultra rei in Italia ab Hannibale gestum; nam ad eum quoque legati ab Carthagine vocantes in Africam iis forte diebus, quibus ad Magonem, venerunt.
Certainly nothing further of importance was done in Italy by Hannibal; for to him also, envoys from Carthage, recalling him to Africa, came by chance during those very days in which they came to Mago.