§30.38.1postquam redierunt ad Scipionem legati, quae publica in navibus fuerant, ex publicis descripta rationibus quaestores, quae privata profiteri domini iussi; §30.38.2pro ea summa pecuniae viginti quinque milia pondo argenti praesentia exacta; indutiaeque Carthaginiensibus datae in tres menses.
After the envoys returned to Scipio, as for what public property had been on the ships, the quaestors copied it from the public registers, while the owners were ordered to declare what was private; in place of that sum of money, twenty-five thousand pounds of silver were immediately exacted, and a truce of three months was granted to the Carthaginians.
§30.38.3additum, ne per indutiarum tempus alio usquam quam Romam mitterent legatos, et quicumque legati Carthaginem venissent, ne ante dimitterent eos, quam Romanum imperatorem, qui et quae petentes venissent, certiorem facerent.
It was added as a condition that during the period of the truce they should not send envoys anywhere else than to Rome, and that whatever envoys came to Carthage, they should not dismiss them before they informed the Roman commander as to who they were and what they had come seeking.
§30.38.4cum legatis Carthaginiensibus Romam missi L. Veturius Philo et M. Marcius Ralla et L. Scipio imperatoris frater.
Along with the Carthaginian envoys, Lucius Veturius Philo, Marcus Marcius Ralla, and Lucius Scipio, the brother of the commander, were sent to Rome.
§30.38.5per eos dies commeatus ex Sicilia Sardiniaque tantam vilitatem annonae effecerunt, ut pro vectura frumentum nautis mercator relinqueret.
During those days, provisions from Sicily and Sardinia caused such a low price of grain that the merchant would leave the grain to the sailors in place of the freight charge.
§30.38.6Romae ad nuntium primum rebellionis Carthaginiensium trepidatum fuerat, iussusque erat Ti. Claudius mature classem in Siciliam ducere atque inde in Africam traicere, et alter consul M. Servilius ad urbem morari, donec, quo statu res in Africa essent, sciretur.
At Rome, at the first news of the rebellion of the Carthaginians, there had been a panic, and Tiberius Claudius had been ordered to lead his fleet quickly to Sicily and to cross over from there into Africa, while the other consul, Marcus Servilius, was ordered to stay near the City until it was known in what state affairs in Africa were.
§30.38.7segniter omnia in comparanda deducendaque classe ab Ti. Claudio consule facta erant, quod patres de pace P. Scipionis potius arbitrium esse, quibus legibus daretur, quam consulis censuerant.
Everything in preparing and launching the fleet had been done sluggishly by the consul Tiberius Claudius, because the senators had decided that the decision concerning peace—under what terms it should be granted—belonged to Publius Scipio rather than to the consul.
§30.38.8prodigia quoque nuntiata sub ipsam famam rebellionis terrorem adtulerant: Cumis solis orbis minui visus et pluit lapideo imbri, et in Veliterno agro terra ingentibus cavernis consedit, arboresque in profundum haustae; Ariciae forum et circa tabernae, §30.38.9Frusinone murus aliquot locis et porta de caelo tacta; et in Palatio lapidibus pluit.
Portents also reported just about the time of the rumor of the rebellion had brought terror: at Cumae, the sun's disc seemed to diminish and it rained a shower of stones; and in the Veliternian territory, the earth sank in huge chasms and trees were swallowed into the depths; at Aricia, the forum and the shops around it, at Frusino the wall in several places and a gate were struck by lightning; and on the Palatine it rained stones.
id prodigium more patrio novemdiali sacro, cetera hostiis maioribus expiata.
This portent, according to ancestral custom, was expiated by a nine-day festival, the others with larger victims.
§30.38.10inter quae etiam aquarum insolita magnitudo in religionem versa; nam ita abundavit Tiberis, ut ludi Apollinares circo inundato extra portam Collinam ad aedem Erycinae Veneris parati sint.
Among these, an unusual flooding of waters was also turned into a superstitious dread; for the Tiber so overflowed that, since the Circus was flooded, the Apollinarian Games were prepared outside the Colline Gate at the temple of Erycinian Venus.
§30.38.11ceterum ludorum ipso die subita serenitate orta pompa duci coepta ad portam Collinam revocata deductaque in circum est, cum decessisse inde aquam nuntiatum esset; §30.38.12laetitiamque populo et ludis celebritatem addidit sedes sua sollemni spectaculo reddita.
But on the very day of the games, a sudden clear weather having arisen, the procession which had begun to be led to the Colline Gate was recalled and led down into the Circus, when it was reported that the water had receded from there; and the fact that its own proper home was restored to the solemn spectacle added joy to the people and a larger attendance to the games.