§30.37.1postero die revocatis legatis et cum multa castigatione perfidiae monitis, ut tot cladibus edocti tandem deos et ius iurandum esse crederent, condiciones pacis dictae, ut liberi legibus suis viverent; §30.37.2quas urbes quosque agros quibusque finibus ante bellum tenuissent, tenerent, populandique finem eo die Romanus faceret; §30.37.3perfugas fugitivosque et captivos omnes redderent Romanis et naves rostratas praeter decem triremes traderent elephantosque, quos haberent, domitos, neque domarent alios; §30.37.4bellum neve in Africa neve extra Africam iniussu populi Romani gererent; §30.37.5Masinissae res redderent foedusque cum eo facerent; frumentum stipendiumque auxiliis, donec ab Roma legati redissent, praestarent.
On the following day, the ambassadors having been recalled and admonished with a severe castigation for their treachery, so that, having been taught by so many disasters, they might at last believe in the existence of the gods and the sanctity of an oath, the conditions of peace were dictated: that they should live as free men under their own laws; they should hold the cities and lands, within the same boundaries, which they had held before the war, and on that day the Roman should make an end of plundering; they should restore to the Romans all deserters, fugitives, and captives, and deliver up all their rostrate ships except ten triremes, and also the elephants which they had, already tamed, and they should not tame any others; they should not wage war either in Africa or outside of Africa without the order of the Roman people; they should restore to Masinissa his property and make a treaty with him; they should provide grain and pay for the auxiliaries until the ambassadors returned from Rome.
decem milia talentum argenti, discripta pensionibus aequis in annos quinquaginta, solverent; obsides centum arbitratu Scipionis darent, §30.37.6ne minores quattuordecim annis neu triginta maiores.
They should pay ten thousand talents of silver, divided into equal payments over fifty years; they should give one hundred hostages at the discretion of Scipio, not younger than fourteen years nor older than thirty.
indutias ita se daturum, si per priores indutias naves onerariae captae, quaeque fuissent in navibus, restituerentur; aliter nec indutias nec spem pacis ullam esse.
He stated that he would grant an armistice only if the transports captured during the previous armistice, and whatever had been in the ships, were restored; otherwise, there would be neither armistice nor any hope of peace.
§30.37.7has condiciones legati cum domum referre iussi in contione ederent, et Gisgo ad dissuadendam pacem processisset audireturque a multitudine inquieta eadem et inbelli, §30.37.8indignatus Hannibal dici ea in tali tempore 57S audirique, arreptum Gisgonem manu sua ex superiore loco detraxit.
When the ambassadors, ordered to carry these conditions home, published them in the assembly, and Gisgo had come forward to dissuade them from peace and was being heard by the restless and at the same time unwarlike multitude, Hannibal, indignant that such things should be said 57S and heard at such a time, seized Gisgo and dragged him down with his own hand from the higher place.
quae insueta liberae civitati species cum fremitum populi movisset, perturbatus militaris vir urbana libertate §30.37.9“novem” inquit “annorum a vobis profectus post sextum et tricesimum annum redii.
When this sight, unusual in a free state, had caused a murmur among the people, the military man, perturbed by city freedom, said, "Having set out from you at nine years of age, I have returned after thirty-six years.
militares artes, quas me a puero fortuna nunc privata nunc publica docuit, probe videor scire; §30.37.10urbis ac fori iura, leges, mores vos me oportet doceatis. ” excusata inprudentia de pace multis verbis disseruit, quam nec iniqua et necessaria esset.
The military arts, which fortune, now private, now public, has taught me from my boyhood, I seem to know well; the rights, laws, and customs of the city and the forum you ought to teach me." Having excused his imprudence, he discoursed at length on peace, showing how it was neither unfair and was indeed necessary.
§30.37.11id omnium maxime difficile erat, quod ex navibus per indutias captis nihil praeter ipsas comparebat naves; nec inquisitio erat facilis, adversantibus paci qui arguerentur.
This of all things was the most difficult, because of the ships captured during the armistice, nothing appeared except the ships themselves; nor was the inquiry easy, since those who were accused opposed peace.
§30.37.12placuit naves reddi et homines utique inquiri; cetera, quae abessent, aestimanda Scipioni permitti, atque ita pecunia luere is Carthaginienses.
It was resolved that the ships should be restored and the men especially sought out; that the other things which were missing should be left to Scipio for evaluation, and thus the Carthaginians should make amends for them with money.
§30.37.13sunt, qui Hannibalem ex acie ad mare pervenisse, inde praeparata nave ad regem Antiochum extemplo profectum tradant, postulantique ante omnia Scipioni, ut Hannibal sibi traderetur, responsum esse Hannibalem in Africa non esse.
There are those who report that Hannibal fled from the battle to the sea, and thence immediately set out in a prepared ship to King Antiochus, and that when Scipio demanded, before all things, that Hannibal should be surrendered to him, the answer was given that Hannibal was not in Africa.