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), 43.3

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Another embassy, also from Spain, of a novel class of people, arrived.

[2] Stating that they were the children of Roman soldiers and of Spanish women, between whom legal marriage could not exist, ¹ and that they numbered over four thousand souls, they asked that a town be given them in which to live.

[3] The senate decreed that they should declare before Lucius Canuleius the praetor their own names and the names of any slaves they might have set free, and that it was the pleasure of the senate that these ² people should be settled at Carteia near the Ocean; ³

[4] any present inhabitants of Carteia who wished to remain at home would have the opportunity to be members of the colony, but on assigned land. ⁴ This colony was to have Latin rights ⁵ and to be called the freedmen's colony.

[5] At the same time there came from Africa both Prince Gulussa, the son of Masinissa, as ambassador for his father, and Carthaginian envoys. ⁶

[6] Gulussa was presented to the senate first, and set forth what supplies had been sent by his father for the Macedonian campaign ⁷ ; he also promised that if they wished to order anything further, his father would furnish it, as due return to the Roman people, and he warned the senators to beware of treachery from the Carthaginians; they had adopted the plan, he added, of preparing a large fleet, ⁸ ostensibly for the Romans and against the Macedonians;

[7] when this fleet should be ready and equipped, the Carthaginians would be free to decide for themselves who should be considered an enemy or who an ally. The instilling of this [suspicion caused the senate] . . . ⁹

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.) — 43.3 focus

[1] et alia novi generis hominum ex Hispania legatio venit.

[2] ex militibus Romanis et ex Hispanis mulieribus, cum quibus conubium non esset, natos se memorantes, supra quattuor milia hominum, orabant, ut sibi oppidum, in quo habitarent, daretur.

[3] senatus decrevit, uti nomina sua apud L. Canuleium profiterentur eorumque, si quos manumisissent; eos Carteiam ad Oceanum deduci placere;

[4] qui Carteiensium domi manere vellent, potestatem fieri, uti numero colonorum essent, agro adsignato. Latinam eam coloniam esse libertinorumque appellari.

[5] eodem tempore ex Africa et Gulussa regulus, Masinissae filius, legatus patris, et Carthaginienses venerunt.

[6] Gulussa prior in senatum introductus et, quae missa erant ad bellum Macedonicum a patre suo, exposuit et, si qua praeterea vellent imperare, praestaturum merito populi Romani est pollicitus et monuit patres conscriptos, ut a fraude Carthaginiensium caverent:

[7] classis eos magnae parandae consilium cepisse, specie pro Romanis et adversus Macedonas; ubi ea parata instructaque esset, ipsorum fore potestatis, quem hostem aut socium habeant. hanc iniec

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).) — 43.3 focus

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et alia novi generis hominum ex Hispania legatio venit.

[2] ex militibus Romanis et ex Hispanis mulieribus, cum quibus conubium non esset, natos se memorantes, supra quattuor milia hominum, orabant ¹ ut sibi oppidum in quo habitarent daretur.

[3] senatus decrevit, uti nomina sua apud L. Canuleium profiterentur eorumque, si quos manumisissent, ² eos Carteiam ad Oceanum deduci placere;

[4] qui Carteiensium ³ domi manere vellent, potestatem fieri, uti numero colonorum essent, agro adsignato. latinam eam earn coloniam esse ⁴ libertinorumque appellari.

[5] eodem tempore ex Africa et Gulussa regulus, Masinissae filius, ⁵ legatus patris, et Carthaginienses venerunt.

[6] Gulussa prior in senatum introductus et quae missa erant ad bellum Macedonicum a patre suo exposuit; et si qua praeterea vellent imperare ⁶ praestaturum merito populi Romani est pollicitus, et monuit patres conscriptos ut a fraude Carthaginiensium caverent:

[7] classis eos magnae parandae consilium cepisse, ⁷ specie pro Romanis et adversus Macedonas; ubi ea ⁸ parata instructaque esset, ipsorum fore potestatis, quem hostem hosted aut socium habeant. hanc iniec . . . ⁹

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn Perseus (Weissenborn, W.; Müller, H. J., editors. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1873-1883.) — 43.3 focus

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et alia novi generis hominum ex Hispania legatio venit. ex militibus Romanis et ex Hispanis mulieribus,

[2] cum quibus conubium non esset, natos se memorantes, supra quattuor milia hominum, orabant, ut sibi oppidum, in quo habitarent, daretur.

[3] senatus decrevit, uti nomina sua apud L. Canuleium profiterentur eorumque, si quos manumisissent; eos Carteiam ad Oceanum deduci placere;

[4] qui Carteiensium domi manere vellent, potestatem ¹ fieri, uti numero colonorum essent, agro adsignato; Latinam eam coloniam esse libertinorumque appellari.

[5] eodem tempore ex Africa et Gulussa regulus, Masinissae filius, legatus patris, et Carthaginienses venerunt.

[7] classis eos magnae parandae consilium cepisse specie pro Romanis et adversus Macedonas; ubi ea parata instructaque esset, ipsorum fore potestatis, quem hostem aut socium habeant. hanc iniec ²

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 43.3 focus

[1]

There came also from Spain another embassy, from a new race of men. They, representing that they were the offspring of Roman soldiers and Spanish women, to whom the Romans had not been united in wedlock, and that their number amounted to more than four thousand, petitioned for a grant of some town to be given them in which they might reside. The senate decreed, that

they should put their names on a list before Lucius Canuleius; and that, if he should judge any of them deserving of freedom, it was their pleasure that they should be settled as a colony at Carteia, on the ocean.

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That such of the present inhabitants of Carteia as wished to remain there, should have the privilege of being considered as colonists, and should have lands assigned them. That this should be deemed a Latin settlement, and be called a colony of freedmen.

At this time Prince Gulussa, son of king Masinissa, arrived from Africa as ambassador from his father. Carthaginian ambassadors also came. Gulussa, being first introduced to the senate, gave a detail of the succours sent by his father to the maintenance of the war in Macedon, and promised, that if they wished to order any thing besides, he would execute it in return for the meritorious deeds of the Roman people; and he warned the conscript fathers to be on their guard against the treachery of the Carthaginians. That they

had formed the design of fitting out a powerful fleet, in favour, as they pretended, of the Romans, and against the Macedonians; but when it should be equipped and ready for action, they would have it in their power to make their own option which party they would treat as a friend, and which as a foe.

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.) — 43.3 focus

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Another deputation from Spain arrived, who represented a new race of men.

[2] They declared themselves to be sprung from Roman soldiers and Spanish women who were not legally married. There were over 4000 of them, and they prayed that a town might be given them to live in.

[3] The senate decreed that they should send in their own names and the names of any whom they had manumitted to L. Canuleius, and they should be settled on the ocean shore at Carteia, and any of the Carteians who wished to remain there should be allowed to join the colonists and receive an allotment of land.

[4] This place became a Latin colony and was called the "Colony of the Libertini."

[5] The African prince Gulussa, Masinissa's son, arrived in Rome simultaneously with a deputation from Carthage. Audience was granted to Gulussa first.

[6] He described the nature of the force that his father had sent for the Macedonian war and promised, should the senate require anything more, that he would supply their demands, out of gratitude for the kindness which the people of Rome had shown towards him. He then warned the senate to be on their guard against the bad faith of the Carthaginians; they had formed the design of fitting out a great fleet, ostensibly to assist the Romans against the Macedonians.

[7] When this fleet was equipped and manned they would have it in their power to choose whom they would as an enemy or an ally . . . .

Notes on the current edition

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

1. Children of such unrecognized marriages were not illegitimate in the modern sense, but had the mother's status, so that these people were legally Spaniards.

2. B.C. 171

3. Carteia was at the head of the Bay of Algeciras, just west of Gibraltar.

4. I.e., they might not keep their former land, but must take a share along with the newcomers.

5. This was the first colony outside of the Italian peninsula to be given Latin rights; it was, in legal theory, an autonomous ally of Rome, whose citizens had the rights of trade and intermarriage with Romans.

6. The previous story of the boundary dispute between these parties is told in XLII. xxiii-xxiv.

7. As related in XLII. Ixii. 2, lxv. 12-14, lxvii. 8.

8. The Carthaginians had been left with only ten triremes (the cruisers of this period) at the end of the Second Punic War (XXX. xxxvii. 3); the treaty did not expressly forbid the rebuilding of the fleet, but the Romans would no doubt have prevented such action, except for the reason here alleged by the Carthaginians; on naval help to Rome by the Carthaginians, cf. XXXVI. xlii. 2 and XLII. lvi. 6.

9. Four quaternions are lost from the MS. at this point. The following matters were treated: the outcome of the dispute between Masinissa and Carthage; the choice of magistrates and their provinces for 170 B.C. —the consuls were Aulus Hostilius Mancinus for Macedonia and Aulus Atilius Serranus for Italy (cf. below), while the praetor Lucius Hortensius received the fleet; the mistreatment of Coronea by Licinius (cf. below, iv. 5 and 11, and the Summary); the defeat of the praetor Lucretius at Oreüs (Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus ix); the secession of the Epirotes and Hostilius' narrow escape from them (cf. below, xxi. 4, Polybius XXVII. 13-14, Diodorus XXX. 5); Hostilius' unsuccessful campaign (cf. XLIV. ii. 6 and xxxvi. 10); Macedonian successes against the Dardani and Illyrians (cf. below, xix. 14, the Summary, and Orosius iv. 20); and the flare-up in Spain (cf. the Summary), the account of which comes to a conclusion as the text resumes.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 43.3

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