Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor), 30.45

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When peace had been secured by land and sea, Scipio embarked his army and crossed over to Lilybaeum in Sicily.

[2] Then after sending a large part of the army by sea, he himself, making his way through Italy, ¹ which was exulting in peace no less than in the victory, while not cities only poured out to do him honour, but crowds of rustics also were blocking the roads, reached Rome and rode into the city in the most distinguished of all triumphs. ²

[3] He brought into the treasury one hundred and twenty-three thousand pounds weight of silver. To his soldiers he distributed four hundred asses apiece ³ out of the booty. The death of Syphax withdrew him rather from the eyes of spectators than from the glory of the triumphing general.

[4] He had died not long before at Tibur, to which he had been transferred from Alba. ⁴ Nevertheless his death attracted attention because he was given a state funeral. ⁵ Polybius, an authority by no means to be despised, relates that this king was led in the triumphal procession. ⁶

[5] Following Scipio as he triumphed was Quintus Terentius Culleo ⁷ wearing the liberty cap; and for all the rest of his life, as was fitting, he honoured in Scipio the giver of his freedom.

[6] As for the surname Africanus, whether his popularity among the soldiers, or fickle favour of the people first gave it currency I am unable to state, or whether it began with the flattery of his intimates, as did the surname Felix for Sulla and Magnus for Pompey in the time of our fathers.

[7] What is certain is that he was the first general to be distinguished by the name of a nation conquered by him. Later, following his example men who were by no means his equals in their victories gained outstanding inscriptions for their masks ⁸ and glorious surnames for their families.

Ab urbe condita. Titus Livius (Livy). Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor). Medford, MA. .

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History of Rome (English) (Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Sage, Evan T.; Schlesinger, Alfred C., translators. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959. (Loeb Classical Library))

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Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 30.45 focus

[1] pace terra marique parta, exercitu in naves inposito, in Siciliam Lilybaeum traiecit.

[2] inde magna parte militum navibus missa ipse per laetam pace non minus quam victoria Italiam, effusis non urbibus modo ad habendos honores, sed agrestium etiam turba obsidente vias, Romam pervenit triumphoque omnium clarissimo urbem est invectus.

[3] argenti tulit in aerarium pondo centlum centum triginta tria milia. militibus ex praeda quadringenos aeris divisit.

[4] morte subtractus spectaculo magis hominum quam triumphantis gloriae Syphax est, Tiburi baud haud ita multo ante mortuus, quo ab Alba traductus fuerat. conspecta tamen mors eius fuit, quia publico funere est elatus.

[5] hunc regem in triumpho ductum Polybius, haudquaquam spernendus auctor, tradit. secutus Scipionem triumphantem est pilleo capiti inposito Q. Terentius Culleo, omnique deinde vita, ut dignum erat, libertatis auctorem coluit.

[6] Africani cognomen militaris prius favor an popularis aura celebraverit an, sicuti Felicis Syllae Magnique Pompei patrum memoria, coeptum ab adsentatione familiari sit, parum compertum habeo.

[7] primus certe hic imperator nomine victae ab se gentis est nobilitatus; exemplo deinde huius nequaquam victoria pares insignes imaginum titulos claraque cognomina familiarum asciverunt.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead; Johnson, Stephen Keymer, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914-1935. (Oxford Classical Texts)) — 30.45 focus

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pace terra marique parta, exercitu in naues imposito in Siciliam Lilybaeum traiecit.

[2] inde magna parte militum nauibus missa ipse per laetam pace non minus quam uictoria Italiam effusis non urbibus modo ad habendos honores sed agrestium etiam turba obsidente uias Romam peruenit triumphoque omnium clarissimo urbem est inuectus.

[3] argenti tulit in aerarium pondo centum uiginti tria milia. militibus ex praeda quadringenos aeris diuisit. morte subtractus spectaculo magis hominum quam triumphantis gloriae Syphax est,

[4] Tiburi haud ita multo ante mortuus, quo ab Alba traductus fuerat. conspecta tamen mors eius fuit quia publico funere est elatus.

[5] —hunc regem in triumpho ductum Polybius, haudquaquam spernendus auctor, tradit.— secutus Scipionem triumphantem est pilleo capiti imposito Q. Terentius Culleo , omnique deinde uita, ut dignum erat, libertatis auctorem coluit.

[6] Africani cognomen militaris prius fauor an popularis aura celebrauerit an, sicuti Felicis Sullae Magnique Pompeii patrum memoria, coeptum ab adsentatione familiari sit parum compertum habeo;

[7] primus certe hic imperator nomine uictae ab se gentis est nobilitatus; exemplo deinde huius nequaquam uictoria pares insignes imaginum titulos claraque cognomina familiarum fecerunt.

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Livy in Fourteen Volumes. Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Schlesinger, Alfred C., editors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959 (printing).) — 30.45 focus

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pace terra marique parta, exercitu in naves inposito, in Siciliam Lilybaeum traiecit.

[2] inde magna parte militum navibus ¹ missa ipse per ² laetam pace non minus quam victoria Italiam, effusis non urbibus modo ad habendos honores, sed agrestium etiam turba obsidente vias, Romam pervenit triumphoque omnium clarissimo urbem est invectus.

[3] argenti tulit in aerarium pondo centum viginti tria milia. ³ militibus ex praeda quadringenos aeris divisit.

[4] morte⁴ subtractus spectaculo magis hominum quam triumphantis gloriae Syphax est, Tiburi haud ita multo ante mortuus, quo ab Alba traductus fuerat. conspecta tamen mors eius fuit, quia publico funere est elatus.

[6] africani cognomen militaris prius favor an popularis aura celebraverit an, sicuti Felicis Sullae Magnique Pompei patrum memoria, coeptum ab adsentatione familiari sit parum compertum habeo.

[7] primus certe hic hie imperator nomine victae ab se gentis est nobilitatus; exemplo deinde huius nequaquam victoria pares insignes imaginum imaginun titulos claraque cognomina familiarum ⁵ fecerunt. ⁶

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History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 30.45 focus

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Peace having been established by sea and land, he embarked his troops and crossed over to Lilybaeum in Sicily;

[2] whence, having sent a great part of his soldiers by ships, he himself proceeded through Italy, which was rejoicing, not less on account of the peace than the victory; while not only the inhabitants of the cities poured out to show him honour, but crowds of rustics thronged the roads. He arrived at Rome and entered the city in a triumph of unparalleled splendour. He brought into the treasury one hundred and twenty-three thousand pounds of silver.

[3] He distributed to each of his soldiers four hundred asses out of the spoils. By the death of Syphax, which took place but a short time before at Tibur, whither he had been removed from Alba, a diminution was occasioned in the interest of the pageant rather than in the glory of him who triumphed.

[4] His death, however, was attended with circumstances which produced a strong sensation, for he was buried at the public expense.

[5] Polybius, an author by no means to be despised, asserts that this king was led in the triumph. Quintus Terentius Culleo followed Scipio in his triumph with a cap of liberty on his head, and during the remainder of his life treated him with the respect due to him as the author of his freedom.

[6] I have not been able to ascertain whether the partiality of the soldiers or the favour of the people fixed upon him the surname of Africanus, or whether in the same manner as Felix was applied to Sulla, and Magnus to Pompey, in the memory of our fathers, it originated in the flattery of his friends.

[7] He was, doubtless, the first general who was distinguished by a name derived from the nation which he had conquered. Afterwards, in imitation of his example, some, by no means his equals in his victories, affixed splendid inscriptions on their statues and gave honourable surnames to their families.

History of Rome Perseus (Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.) — 30.45 focus

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As peace was now established on land and sea Scipio embarked his army and sailed to Lilybaeum.

[2] From there he sent the greater part of his army on in the ships, whilst he himself travelled through Italy. The country was rejoicing quite as much over the restoration of peace as over the victory he had won, and he made his way to Rome through multitudes who poured out from the cities to do him honour, and crowds of peasants who blocked the roads in the country districts.

[3] The triumphal procession in which he rode into the City was the most brilliant that had ever been seen. The weight of silver which he brought into the treasury amounted to 123,000 pounds. Out of the booty he distributed forty ases to each soldier.

[4] Syphax had died shortly before at Tibur whither he had been transferred from Alba, but his removal, if it detracted from the interest of the spectacle, in no way dimmed the glory of the triumphing general.

[5] His death, however, provided another spectacle, for he received a public funeral. Polybius, an authority of considerable weight, says that this king was led in the procession. Q. Terentius Culleo marched behind Scipio wearing the cap of liberty, and in all his after-life honoured as was meet the author of his freedom.

[6] As to the sobriquet of Africanus, whether it was conferred upon him by the devotion of his soldiers or by the popular breath, or whether as in the recent instances of Sylla the Fortunate and Pompey the Great it originated in the flattery of his friends, I cannot say for certain.

[7] At all events, he was the first commander-in-chief who was ennobled by the name of the people he had conquered. Since his time men who have won far smaller victories have in imitation of him left splendid inscriptions on their busts and illustrious names to their families.

Notes on the current edition

Ab Urbe Condita With An English Translation, books 1-10, 21-45, with periochae 11-20

1. He may have landed at Puteoli. The time is probably the autumn of 201 B.C.

2. No details are furnished by Polybius either; XVI. xxiii (one exception below, § 5). For picturesque descriptions see Appian Pun. 66; Silius Ital. XVII. 625-654, at the very end of the poem. So dramatic an arrangement had not commended itself to Livy as he wrote the final paragraph of his ten books on the Hannibalic War.

3. B.C. 201

4. Alba Fucens; xvii. 2 and note.

5. So Val. Max. V. i. 16.

6. And so (from a different source) Val. Max. VI. ii. 3; Polybius l.c. § 6; Tacitus Ann. XII. 38; Silius Ital. l. c. 629 f. Officially the triumph was over Hannibal, the Poeni and Syphax; XXXVIII. xlvi. 10. Here for the very first time Livy mentions Polybius. Cf. XXXIII. x. 10 ( non incertum auctorem), where a statement of his is preferred.

7. Cf. p. 533 and n. 2.

8. In wall-cases ( armaria ) usually, each mask provided with its own titulus.

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