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), 35.40

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[1] I have been driven out of my course, so to say, by blending events in Greece with those in Rome, not because they were worth the effort of recording them, but because they were the origins of the war¹ with Antiochus.

[2] When the consuls were elected —for this was the point at which I turned aside — Lucius Quinctius and Gnaeus Domitius departed to their provinces, Quinctius to the Ligures, Domitius against the Boii.

[3] The Boii remained quiet, and their senate with their children and the commanders with the cavalry —there were altogether fifteen hundred of them —even surrendered themselves to the consul.

[4] The other consul devastated the Ligurian country far and wide and captured some forts from which they not only secured plunder of all kinds, along with prisoners, but also recovered some citizens and allies who had been in the hands of the enemy.²

[5] In the same year a colony was established at Vibo in accordance with a decree of the senate and an enactment of the assembly.

[6] Three thousand seven hundred infantry went there and three hundred cavalrymen; the commission which established it consisted of Quintus Naevius, Marcus Minucius and Marcus Furius Crassipes; fifteen iugera of land were given to each infantryman and twice that to each cavalryman. The land had recently belonged to the Brutti; they in turn had taken it from the Greeks.

[7] At Rome in the same period there were two very serious alarms, one of longer duration but slower in its effect, for the earth trembled through thirty-eight days; for so many days there was a holiday spent in apprehension and fear; by reason of this occurrence a³ three-day period of prayer was held;

[8] the other was no idle panic but actual destruction to many: a fire broke out in the Forum Boarium,⁴ and for a day and a night the buildings facing the Tiber burned, and all the shops with merchandise of great value were consumed.

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.) — 35.40 focus

[1] abstulere me velut de spatio Graeciae res immixtae Romanis, non quia ipsas operae pretium esset perscribere, sed quia causae cum Antiocho fuerunt belli.

[2] consulibus designatis — inde namque deverteram — L. Quinctius et Cn. Domitius consules in provincias profecti sunt, Quinctius in Ligures, Domitius adversus Boios.

[3] Boi quieverunt, atque etiam senatus eorum cum liberis et praefecti cum equitatu — summa omnium mille et quingenti — consuli dediderunt se.

[4] ab altero consule ager Ligurum late est vastatus castellaque aliquot capta, unde non praeda modo omnis generis cum captivis parta, sed recepti quoque aliquot cives sociique, qui in hostium potestate fuerant. —

[5] eodem hoc anno Vibonem colonia deducta est ex senatus consulto plebique scito.

[6] tria milia et septingenti pedites ierunt, trecenti equites; triumviri deduxerunt eos Q. Naevius M. Minucius M. Furius Crassipes; quina dena iugera agri data in singulos pedites sunt, duplex equiti. Bruttiorum proxime fuerat ager;

[7] Bruttii ceperant de Graecis. — Romae per idem tempus duo maximi fuerunt terrores, diutinus alter, sed segnior: terra dies duodequadraginta movit; per totidem dies feriae in sollicitudine ac metu fuere; in triduum eius rei causa supplicatio habita est;

[8] ille non pavor vanus, sed vera multorum clades fuit: incendio a foro Bovario orto diem noctemque aedificia in Tiberim versa arsere, tabernaeque omnes cum magni pretii mercibus conflagraverunt.

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).) — 30.40 focus

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legati ex Africa Romani simul Carthaginiensesque cum venissent Romam, senatus ad aedem Bellonae habitus est.

[2] ubi¹ cum L. Veturius Philo pugnatum cum Hannibale esse suprema Carthaginiensibus pugna finemque tandem lugubri bello inpositum ² ingenti laetitia patrum exposuisset,

[3] adiecit Verminam etiam Syphacis filium, quae parva bene gestae rei accessio erat, devictum. In contionem inde ³ prodire iussus gaudiumque id populo inpertire.

[4] tum patefacta ⁴ gratulationi ⁵ omnia in urbe templa supplicationesque in triduum decretae. legatis Carthaginiensium et Philippi regis nam hi ⁶ quoque venerant—petentibus ut senatus sibi daretur responsum iussu patrum ab dictatore est consules novos iis senatum daturos esse.

comitia inde habita.

[5] creati consules Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, P. Aelius Paetus; praetores M. Iunius Pennus, cui sors urbana evenit, M. Valerius Falto Bruttios, M. Fabius Buteo Sardiniam, P. Aelius Tubero Siciliam est sortitus.

[6] De provinciis consulum nihil ante placebat agi quam legati Philippi regis et Carthaginiensium auditi essent; belli finem alterius, alterius principium prospiciebant animis.

[7] Cn . Lentulus consul cupiditate flagrabat provinciae Africae, seu bellum foret, facilem ⁷ victoriam, ⁸ seu iam finiretur, finiti tanti belli se ⁹ consule gloriam petens.

[8] negare itaque prius quicquam agi passurum quam sibi provincia ¹⁰ Africa decreta esset, concedente conlega, moderato viro et prudenti, qui gloriae eius ¹¹ certamen cum Scipione, praeterquam quod iniquum esset, etiam inpar futurum cernebat.

[9] Q. Minucius Thermus et M'. Acilius Glabrio tribuni plebis rem priore anno ¹² nequiquam temptatam ab Ti. Claudio consule Cn. Cornelium temptare aiebant;

[10] ex auctoritate patrum latum ad populum esse cuius vellent imperium in Africa esse; omnes quinque et triginta tribus P. Scipioni id imperium decrevisse. ¹³

[11] multis contentionibus et in senatu et ad populum acta res postremo eo deducta est ut senatui permitterent.

[12] patres igitur iurati—ita enim convenerat—censuerunt uti consules provincias inter se conpararent sortirenturve uter Italiam, uter classem navium quinquaginta haberet; cui classis obvenisset in Siciliam navigaret;

[13] si pax cum Carthaginiensibus componi nequisset, in Africam traiceret; consul mari, Scipio eodem quo adhuc iure imperii terra rem gereret;

[14] si condiciones convenirent pacis, tribuni plebis populum rogarent utrum consulem an P. Scipionem iuberent pacem dare, et quem, si deportandus exercitus victor ex Africa esset, deportare;

[15] si pacem per P. Scipionem dari atque ab eodem exercitum deportari iussissent, ne consul ex Sicilia in Africam traiceret.

[16] alter consul, cui Italia evenisset, duas legiones a M. Sextio ¹⁴ praetore acciperet.

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn Perseus (Weissenborn, W.; Müller, H. J., editors. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1873-1883.) — 35.40 focus

[1]

abstulere me velut de spatio Graeciae res immixtae Romanis, non quia ipsas operae pretium esset perscribere, sed quia causae cum Antiocho fuerunt belli.

[2] consulibus designatis — inde namque deverteram — L. Quinctius et Cn. Domitius consules in provincias profecti sunt, Quinctius in Ligures, Domitius adversus Boios.

[3] Boi quieverunt, atque etiam senatus eorum cum liberis et praefecti cum equitatu — summa omnium mille et quingenti —

[4] consuli dediderunt se. ab altero consule ager Ligurum late est vastatus castellaque aliquot capta, unde non praeda modo omnis generis cum captivis parta, sed recepti quoque aliquot cives sociique, qui in hostium potestate fuerant.

[5] — eodem hoc anno Vibonem colonia deducta est ex senatus consulto plebique scito. tria milia et septingenti pedites ierunt, trecenti equites;

[6] triumviri deduxerunt eos Q. Naevius M. Minucius M. Furius¹ Crassipes; quina dena iugera agri data in singulos pedites sunt, duplex equiti. Bruttiorum proxime fuerat ager; Bruttii ceperant de Graecis.

[7] — Romae per idem tempus duo maximi fuerunt terrores, diutinus alter sed segnior: terra dies duodequadraginta movit, per totidem dies feriae in sollicitudine ac metu fuere; in triduum eius rei causa supplicatio habita est;

[8] ille non pavor vanus, sed vera multorum clades fuit: incendio a foro Bovario orto diem noctemque aedificia in Tiberim versa arsere, tabernaeque omnes cum magni pretii mercibus conflagraverunt.

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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)) — 35.40 focus

[1]

The affairs of Greece, blended with those of Rome, have carried me away, as it were, out of my course: not that they were in themselves deserving of a recital, but because they constituted the causes of the war with Antiochus.

[2] After the consular election, for thence I digressed, the consuls, Lucius Quinctius and Cneius Domitius, repaired to their provinces; Quinctius to Liguria, Domitius against the Boians.

[3] The Boians kept themselves quiet; nay, the senators, with their children, and the commanding officers of the cavalry, with their troops, amounting in all to one thousand five hundred, surrendered to the consul.

[4] The other consul laid waste the country of the Ligurians to a wide extent, and took some forts: in which expeditions he not only acquired booty of all sorts, together with many prisoners, but he also recovered several of his countrymen, and of the allies, who had been in the hands of the enemy.

[5] In this year a colony was settled at Vibo, in pursuance of a decree of the senate and an order of the people; three thousand seven hundred footmen, and three hundred horsemen, went out thither, conducted by the commissioners Quintus Naevius, Marcus Minucius, and Marcus Furius Crassipes.

[6] Fifteen acres of ground were assigned to each footman, double that quantity to a horseman. This land had been last in possession of the Bruttians, who had taken it from the Greeks.

[7] About this time two dreadful causes of alarm happened at Rome, one of which continued long, but was less active than the other. An earthquake lasted through thirty-eight days; during all which time there was a total cessation of business, amidst anxiety and fears. On account of this event, a supplication was performed of three days' continuance. The other was not a mere fright, but attended with the actual loss of many lives.

[8] In consequence of a fire breaking out in the cattle-market, the conflagration, among the houses near to the Tiber, continued through all that day and the following night, and all the shops, with wares of very great value, were reduced to ashes.

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.) — 35.40 focus

[1]

The affairs of Greece, involved as they were with those of Rome, have carried me, so to speak, out of my course, not because they were worth narrating in themselves, but because they brought about the war with Antiochus.

[2] After the consular elections-for that was the point at which I digressed-the new consuls, L. Quinctius and Cn. Domitius, left for their provinces, Quinctius for Liguria and Domitius for the country of the Boii.

[3] The Boii remained quiet, and even their senate with their children and the cavalry commanders with their men, 1500 in all, made a formal surrender to the consul.

[4] The other consul devastated the Ligurian country far and wide, captured several of their fortified posts and took from them not only prisoners and booty, but also many of his fellow-citizens and members of the friendly States who had been in the hands of the enemy.

[5] During the year the senate and people authorised the formation of a military colony at Vibo; 3700 infantry and 300 cavalry were sent there.

[6] The supervisors of the settlement were Q. Naevius, M. Minucius and M. Furius Crassipes. Fifteen jugera were allotted to each infantryman and double the number to the cavalry. The land had previously belonged to the Bruttii, who had taken it from the Greeks.

[7] During this time two alarming incidents occurred in Rome, one lasted longer than the other, but was less destructive. There were earth tremors which went on for thirty-eight days, and during the whole of the time business was suspended amidst general anxiety and alarm. Intercessions were offered up for three successive days to avert the peril.

[8] The other was no groundless alarm, it was a widespread disaster. A fire broke out in the Forum Boarium; for a day and a night the buildings fronting the Tiber were blazing and all the shops with their valuable stocks were burnt out.

Notes on the current edition

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

1. B.C. 192

2. This narrative is somewhat inconsistent with that previously given, and probably came from another source. In x. 10 the election of Quinctius and Domitius was reported; the assignment of provinces was postponed to xx. 2-7, to make room for the account of developments in the east. Their achievements in the provinces were summarily recorded in xxii. 3-4, with only slight variations from the later version, and at xxiv. 3 Quinctius returned to hold the elections at which Scipio and Glabrio were chosen consuls for 191 B.C. In this passage, however, Livy seems to keep both consuls in Rome until after the elections, forgetting that Domitius was already in Gaul, according to the earlier account. He seems too to forget that the proconsul Minucius had been assigned to the Ligures (xx. 6). A further difference will be seen in the following sections: the source of chap. xxii went on to record events in Spain, and a possible duplication was pointed out in the note to xxii. 8; the source which Livy followed in chap. xl. continued with happenings at Rome.

3. B.C. 192

4. This

cattle-market

lay between the Circus Maximus and the Tiber.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 35.40

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