§38.59.1at hercule in Scipione leges ipsas pacis, ut nimium accommodatas Antiocho, suspectas esse; integrum enim ei regnum relictum; omnia possidere eum victum, quae ante bellum eius fuerint;
But indeed, in Scipio's case, the very terms of the peace are suspected as being too favorable to Antiochus; for his kingdom was left intact to him; and though defeated, he possesses everything that had been his before the war.
§38.59.2auri et argenti cum vim magnam habuisset, nihil in publicum relatum, omne in privatum versum; §38.59.3an praeter omnium oculos tantum auri argentique in triumpho L. Scipionis, quantum non decem aliis triumphis, si omne in unum conferatur, latum?
Although he had obtained a great quantity of gold and silver, nothing was reported to the treasury, but all was turned to private use; Or was there not carried before the eyes of all in the triumph of L. Scipio as much gold and silver as could not be carried in ten other triumphs, if all were brought together into one?
§38.59.4nam quid de finibus regni dicam? Asiam omnem et proxima Europae tenuisse Antiochum.
For what shall I say of the boundaries of the kingdom? That Antiochus held all Asia and the nearest parts of Europe.
§38.59.5ea quanta regio orbis terrarum sit, a Tauro monte in Aegaeum usque prominens mare, quot non urbes modo sed gentes amplectatur, §38.59.6omnes scire.
How great a region of the earth that is, projecting from Mount Taurus all the way to the Aegean Sea, and how many nations, not just cities, it embraces, everyone knows.
hanc regionem dierum plus triginta iter in longitudinem, decem inter duo maria in latitudinem patentem usque ad Tauri montis iuga Antiocho ademptam, §38.59.7expulso in ultimum angulum orbis terrarum.
This region, extending more than thirty days' journey in length and ten in width between the two seas, all the way to the ridges of Mount Taurus, was taken away from Antiochus, he being driven into the furthest corner of the earth.
quid, si gratuita pax esset, plus adimi ei potuisse? Philippo victo Macedoniam, Nabidi Lacedaemonem relictam, nec Quinctio crimen quaesitum; non enim habuisse eum Africanum fratrem; cuius cum gloria prodesse L. Scipioni debuisset, invidiam nocuisse.
What more, even if the peace had been granted for nothing, could have been taken away from him? Macedonia was left to the defeated Philip, Lacedaemon to Nabis, nor was a charge sought against Quinctius; for he did not have Africanus as a brother; whose glory, though it ought to have profited L. Scipio, yet envy of him did him harm.
§38.59.8tantum auri argentique iudicatum esse in domum L. Scipionis illatum, quantum venditis omnibus bonis redigi non posset.
So much gold and silver has been judged to have been brought into the house of L. Scipio as could not be raised even if all his property were sold.
ubi ergo esse regium aurum,
Where then is the royal gold, where are those many inheritances that were received?
§38.59.9ubi tot hereditates acceptas? in domo, quam sumptus non exhauserint, exstare debuisse novae fortunae cumulum.
In a house which expenses have not exhausted, the accumulation of a new fortune ought to be visible.
at enim, quod ex bonis redigi non possit, ex corpore et tergo per vexationem et contumelias L. Scipionis petituros inimicos,
But indeed, what cannot be raised from his property, his enemies will seek from the body and back of L.
§38.59.10ut in carcere inter fures nocturnos et latrones vir clarissimus includatur et in robore et tenebris exspiret, deinde nudus ante carcerem proiciatur.
Scipio through harassment and insults, so that a most illustrious man may be shut up in prison among nightly thieves and robbers, and expire in the dungeon and darkness, and then be cast out naked before the prison.
§38.59.11non id Corneliae magis familiae quam urbi Romanae fore erubescendum.
This will be a matter of shame not so much for the Cornelia family as for the city of Rome.