§45.13.1et Popilius et ea legatio, quae missa ad Antiochum erat, Romam redit; rettulit controversias inter reges sublatas esse exercitumque ex Aegypto in Syriam reductum. §45.13.2post ipsorum regum legati venerunt: Antiochi legati referentes omni victoria potiorem pacem regi, senatui quae placuisset, visam, eumque haud secus quam deorum imperio legatorum Romanorum iussis paruisse; §45.13.3gratulati dein de victoria sunt, quam ope sua si quid imperatum foret, adiuturum regem fuisse. §45.13.4Ptolemaei legati communi nomine regis et Cleopatrae gratias egerunt: §45.13.5plus eos senatui populoque Romano quam parentibus suis, plus quam diis immortalibus debere, per quos obsidione miserrima liberati essent, regnum patrium prope amissum recepissent. §45.13.6responsum ab senatu est Antiochum recte atque ordine fecisse, quod legatis paruisset, gratumque id esse senatui populoque Romano: §45.13.7regibus Aegypti, Ptolemaeo Cleopatraeque, si quid per se boni commodique evenisset, id magno opere senatum laetari, daturumque operam, ut regni sui maximum semper praesidium positum esse in fide populi Romani ducant. §45.13.8munera legatis ut ex instituto mittenda curaret, C. Papirio praetori mandatum. §45.13.9litterae deinde e Macedonia allatae, quae victoriae laetitiam geminarent: Persea regem in potestatem consulis venisse. §45.13.10dimissis legatis regiis disceptatum inter Pisanos Lunensesque legatos est, Pisanis querentibus agro se a colonis Romanis pelli, Lunensibus adfirmantibus eum, de quo agatur, ab triumviris agrum sibi adsignatum esse. §45.13.11senatus, qui de finibus cognoscerent statuerentque, quinque viros misit Q. Fabium Buteonem, P. Cornelium Blasionem, T. Sempronium Muscam, L. Naevium Balbum, C. Apuleium Saturninum. §45.13.12et ab Eumene et ab Attalo et ab Athenaeo fratribus communis legatio de victoria gratulatum venit.
Both Popilius and that embassy which had been sent to Antiochus returned to Rome; they reported that the disputes between the kings had been removed and the army withdrawn from Egypt into Syria. Afterwards the ambassadors of the kings themselves arrived: those of Antiochus reporting that a peace which was pleasing to the senate seemed to the king preferable to any victory, and that he had obeyed the commands of the Roman commissioners no differently than the command of the gods; they then congratulated them on the victory, which, they said, the king would have aided with his own resources if any command had been given to him. The ambassadors of Ptolemy, in the joint name of the king and Cleopatra, offered thanks: that they owed more to the senate and the Roman people than to their own parents, more than to the immortal gods, through whom they had been freed from a most wretched siege and had recovered their paternal kingdom when almost lost. The answer returned by the senate was that Antiochus had acted rightly and in proper order in obeying the commissioners, and that this was pleasing to the senate and the Roman people; that as to the kings of Egypt, Ptolemy and Cleopatra, if any good and advantage had come to them through the senate's agency, the senate rejoiced greatly at it, and would exert themselves so that the kings might always consider the greatest protection of their kingdom to be placed in the loyalty of the Roman people. Gaius Papirius, the praetor, was instructed to see that gifts were sent to the ambassadors in accordance with custom. Then letters were brought from Macedonia, which doubled the joy of the victory: that King Perseus had come into the power of the consul. After the royal ambassadors were dismissed, a dispute was debated between the commissioners of Pisa and Luna; the Pisans complaining that they were being driven from their land by the Roman colonists, the Lunians asserting that the land in question had been assigned to them by the triumvirs. The senate sent five commissioners to investigate and decide concerning the boundaries: Quintus Fabius Buteo, Publius Cornelius Blasio, Titus Sempronius Musca, Lucius Naevius Balbus, and Gaius Apuleius Saturninus. A joint embassy also came from the brothers Eumenes, Attalus, and Athenaeus to offer congratulations on the victory.
et Masgabae, regis Masinissae filio, Puteolis nave egresso praesto fuit obviam missus cum pecunia L. Manlius quaestor, qui Romam eum publico sumptu perduceret. §45.13.13advenienti extemplo senatus datus est.
And when Masgaba, the son of King Masinissa, landed from his ship at Puteoli, the quaestor Lucius Manlius met him, having been sent with money to escort him to Rome at the public expense. On his arrival, an audience with the senate was immediately granted to him.
ibi adulescens ita locutus est, ut, quae rebus grata erant, gratiora verbis faceret.
There the young man spoke in such a way as to make what was pleasing in facts even more pleasing by his words.
commemoravit, quot pedites equitesque, quot elephantos, quantum frumenti eo quadriennio pater suus in Macedoniam misisset: §45.13.14duas res ei rubori fuisse, unam, quod rogasset eum per legatos senatus, quae ad bellum opus essent, et non inperasset, alteram, quod pecuniam ei pro frumento misisset. §45.13.15Masinissam meminisse se regnum a populo Romano partum auctumque et multiplicatum habere; usu regni contentum scire dominium et ius eorum, qui dederint, esse. §45.13.16sumere itaque eos de se, non rogare aequom esse, neque emere ea ex fructibus agri ab se dati, quae ibi proveniant.
He related how many infantry and cavalry, how many elephants, and how much grain his father had sent into Macedonia during those four years: that two things had caused him embarrassment: one, that the senate, through its ambassadors, had requested from him what was needed for the war, and had not commanded it; the other, that it had sent him money for the grain. Masinissa remembered that he held a kingdom acquired, increased, and multiplied by the Roman people; content with the use of the kingdom, he knew that the ownership and right belonged to those who had given it. Therefore, it was right for them to take from him, not to ask, and not to buy those things which grow there from the produce of the land given by themselves.
id Masinissae satis esse et fore, quod populo Romano superesset. §45.13.17cum iis mandatis a patre profectum postea consecutos equites, qui devictam Macedoniam nuntiarent gratularique senatui iuberent et indicare tantae eam rem laetitiae patri suo esse, ut Romam venire velit Iovique optimo maximo in Capitolio sacrificare et grates agere; id, nisi molestum sit, ut ei permittatur, ab senatu petere.
What was left over for the Roman people was and would be sufficient for Masinissa. That after he had set out from his father with these instructions, horsemen had afterwards overtaken him to report that Macedonia had been completely conquered, and to bid him congratulate the senate and declare that this event was a source of such great joy to his father that he wished to come to Rome and offer sacrifice and thanks to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol; and to request of the senate that, unless it should be troublesome, this might be permitted to him.