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Livy · History of Rome §33.23.1-33.23.9

Cornelius's Triumph in Rome and Minucius's on the Alban Mount

Passage 1141 of 1770 · Latin

Summary

Gaius Cornelius celebrates a splendid triumph in Rome with the Senate's approval, while Quintus Minucius, facing opposition, holds his own triumph on the Alban Mount by his consular authority.

§33.23.1C. Cornelio omnium consensu decretus triumphus.
By unanimous consent, a triumph was decreed to Gaius Cornelius.
et Placentini Cremonensesque addiderunt favorem consuli, §33.23.2gratias agentes commemorantesque obsidione sese ab eo liberatos, plerique etiam, cum capti apud hostes essent, servitute exemptos.
And the Placentines and Cremonians added to the favor shown to the consul, rendering thanks and reminding that they had been delivered by him from a siege, and most of them also, having been captured by the enemy, had been rescued from slavery.
§33.23.3Q. Minucius temptata tantum relatione, cum adversum omnem senatum videret, in monte Albano se triumphaturum et iure imperii consularis et multorum clarorum virorum exemplo dixit.
Quintus Minucius, having only attempted the motion, when he saw the whole senate opposed to him, declared that he would celebrate a triumph on the Alban Mount, both by the right of his consular authority and by the example of many illustrious men.
§33.23.4C. Cornelius de Insubribus Cenomanisque in magistratu triumphavit.
Gaius Cornelius, while in office, celebrated a triumph over the Insubres and Cenomani.
multa signa militaria tulit, multa Gallica spolia captivis carpentis transvexit, §33.23.5multi nobiles Galli ante currum ducti, inter quos quidam Hamilcarem, §33.23.6ducem Poenorum, fuisse auctores sunt; ceterum magis in se convertit oculos Cremonensium Placentinorum. que colonorum turba, pilleatorum currum sequentium.
He carried many military standards, and transported many Gallic spoils in captured carriages; many noble Gauls were led before his chariot, among whom some authors record that Hamilcar, the commander of the Carthaginians, was present; but the crowd of colonists from Cremona and Placentina, following the chariot wearing felt caps, turned the eyes of all upon themselves even more.
§33.23.7aeris tulit in triumpho ducenta triginta septem milia quingentos, argenti bigati undeoctoginta milia; septuageni aeris militibus divisi, duplex centurioni, triplex equiti.
He carried in his triumph two hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred bronze coins, and seventy-nine thousand bigatus silver coins; seventy bronze coins were distributed to each soldier, double to a centurion, and triple to a cavalryman.
§33.23.8Q. Minucius consul de Liguribus Boisque Gallis in monte Albano triumphavit.
The consul Quintus Minucius celebrated a triumph over the Ligurians and Boian Gauls on the Alban Mount.
is triumphus, ut loco et fama rerum gestarum et, quod sumptum non erogatum ex aerario omnes sciebant, inhonoratior fuit, ita signis carpentisque et spoliis ferme aequabat pecuniae etiam prope par summa fuit;
This triumph, although it was less honorable in respect of its location, the reputation of his achievements, and because everyone knew that the cost had been taken but not requisitioned from the treasury, nevertheless in terms of standards, carriages, and spoils, almost equaled the other; the sum of money also was nearly equal.
§33.23.9aeris tralata ducenta quinquaginta quattuor milia, argenti bigati quinquaginta tria milia et ducenti; militibus centurionibusque et equitibus idem in singulos datum, quod dederat collega.
Two hundred and fifty-four thousand bronze coins were carried, and fifty-three thousand two hundred bigatus silver coins; to the soldiers, centurions, and cavalrymen, the same amount was given to each individual as his colleague had given.

Notes

  1. 33.23.2plerique etiam, cum capti apud hostes essent, servitute exemptos — The word "plerique" is a nominative masculine plural, serving as an appositive or a nominative subject adjunct pointing to a portion of the "Placentini Cremonensesque" mentioned before. Syntactically, the nominative "plerique" is embedded within the accusative-and-infinitive construction "[sese] servitute exemptos [esse]" depending on "commemorantes", resulting in an anacoluthon or a parenthetical nominative.
  2. 33.23.4captivis carpentis — "captivis" is the ablative neuter plural of the adjective "captivus" (captured), modifying "carpentis" as an ablative of means. It is interpreted as "in captured carriages" rather than "in the carriages of the captives."
  3. 33.23.8quod sumptum non erogatum ex aerario omnes sciebant — "sumptum" is interpreted as the accusative of the fourth-declension noun "sumptus" (expense) or as part of the infinitive "sumptum [esse]" forming the object clause of "sciebant." Along with "non erogatum [esse] ex aerario" (not paid out from the treasury), it means "because everyone knew that the expense had not been disbursed from the treasury."

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Livy, History of Rome §33.23.1-33.23.9. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.humanitext-lat2:33.23.1-33.23.9

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