§30.36.1Scipio confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris direptisque cum ingenti praeda ad mare
Scipio, immediately after the battle, having stormed and plundered the enemy's camp with huge booty, returned to the sea and the ships, upon the receipt of the news that P.
§30.36.2ac naves rediit nuntio allato P. Lentulum cum quinquaginta rostratis, centum onerariis, cum omni genere commeatus ad Uticam accessisse.
Lentulus had arrived at Utica with fifty rostrate ships, a hundred transports, and every kind of provisions.
§30.36.3admovendum igitur undique terrorem perculsae Carthagini ratus, misso Laelio Romam cum victoriae nuntio Cn.
Thinking, therefore, that terror should be brought from all sides upon the stricken Carthage, after sending Laelius to Rome with the news of the victory, he ordered Cn.
Octavium terrestri itinere ducere legiones Carthaginem iubet; ipse ad suam veterem nova Lentuli classe adiuncta profectus ab Utica portum Carthaginis petit.
Octavius to lead the legions to Carthage by a land route; he himself, having joined Lentulus's new fleet to his own old one, set out from Utica and made for the harbour of Carthage.
§30.36.4baud procul aberat cum velata infulis ramisque oleae Carthaginiensium occurrit navis.
He was not far off when a Carthaginian ship met him, adorned with sacred wool-fillets and olive branches.
decem legati erant, principes civitatis, auctore Hannibale missi ad petendam pacem.
There were ten ambassadors, leading men of the state, sent at the instigation of Hannibal to sue for peace.
§30.36.5qui cum ad puppim praetoriae navis accessissent velamenta supplicum porrigentes, orantes implorantesque fidem ac misericordiam Scipionis, §30.36.6nullum iis aliud responsum datum, quam ut Tynetem venirent; eo se moturum castra.
When these had approached the stern of the flagship, holding out the tokens of suppliants, praying and imploring the protection and mercy of Scipio, no other answer was given to them than that they should come to Tunes; that he would move his camp thither.
ipse ad contemplandum Carthaginis situm non tam noscendi in praesentia quam terrendi hostis causa provectus Uticam, eodem et Octavio revocato, rediit.
He himself, having advanced to reconnoitre the situation of Carthage, not so much for the sake of obtaining information at present as of terrifying the enemy, returned to Utica, having also recalled Octavius to the same place.
§30.36.7inde procedentibus ad Tynetem nuntius allatus Verminam Syphacis filium cum equitibus pluribus quam peditibus venire Carthaginiensibus auxilio.
As they were proceeding from there to Tunes, a message was brought that Vermina, the son of Syphax, was coming to the aid of the Carthaginiensians with more cavalry than infantry.
§30.36.8pars exercitus cum omni equitatu † Saturnalibus primis agmen adgressa Numidarum levi certamine fudit.
A part of the army, with all the cavalry, having attacked the column of the Numidians on the first day of the Saturnalia, routed them in a slight engagement.
exitu quoque fugae intercluso ab omni parte circumdatis equitibus quindecim milia hominum caesa, mille et ducenti vivi capti, et equi Numidici mille et quingenti, signa militaria duo et septuaginta.
Their escape also being cut off, and the Numidians being surrounded on all sides by the cavalry, fifteen thousand men were slain, twelve hundred taken alive, along with fifteen hundred Numidian horses and seventy-two military standards.
regulus ipse inter tumultum cum paucis effugit.
The young prince himself escaped in the confusion with a few followers.
§30.36.9tum ad Tynetem eodem quo antea loco castra posita, legatique triginta ab Carthagine ad Scipionem venerunt.
Then the camp was pitched at Tunes in the same place as before, and thirty ambassadors came from Carthage to Scipio.
et illi quidem multo miserabilius quam antea, quo magis cogebat fortuna, egerunt; sed aliquanto minore cum misericordia ab recenti memoria perfidiae auditi sunt.
Indeed, they pleaded much more miserably than before, as fortune pressed them harder; but they were heard with considerably less mercy, because of the recent memory of their treachery.
§30.36.10in consilio quamquam iusta ira omnes ad delendam stimulabat Carthaginem, tamen cum et quanta res esset et quam longi temporis obsidio tam munitae et tam validae urbis reputarent, §30.36.11et ipsum Scipionem expectatio successoris venturi ad paratam alterius labore ac periculo finiti belli famam sollicitaret, ad pacem omnium animi versi sunt.
In the council, although a just anger stimulated everyone to destroy Carthage, yet when they considered both how great an undertaking it was and how long a time the siege of so fortified and strong a city would require, and since the expectation of a successor who would come to reap the glory of the war finished by another's labour and danger also troubled Scipio himself, the minds of all were turned towards peace.