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13. cum id nescire Mago diceret, “nihil facilius scitu est” inquit. “ecquos legatos ad Hannibalem Romani miserunt de pace? ecquam denique mentionem pacis Romae factam esse adlatum ad vos est?” [2] cum id quoque negasset, “bellum igitur” inquit “tam integrum habemus quam habuimus qua die Hannibal in Italiam est transgressus. [3] quam varia victoria priore Punico1 bello fuerit plerique qui meminerimus supersumus. numquam terra marique magis prosperae res nostrae visae sunt quam ante consules C. Lutatium et A. Postumium fuerunt: [4] lutatio et Postumio consulibus devicti ad Aegates insulas sumus. quod si, id quod di omen avertant, nunc quoque fortuna aliquid variaverit, tum pacem speratis cum vincemur, quam nunc cum vincimus dat nemo? [5] ego, si quis de pace consulet seu deferenda hostibus seu accipienda, habeo quid sententiae dicam; si de iis quae Mago postulat refertis, [p. 42] nec victoribus mitti attinere puto et frustrantibus2 nos falsa atque inani spe3 multo minus censeo mittenda esse.”

[6] haud multos movit Hannonis oratio; nam et simultas cum familia Barcina leviorem auctorem faciebat et occupati animi praesenti laetitia nihil quo vanius fieret gaudium suum auribus admittebant, debellatumque mox fore, si adniti paulum voluissent, rebantur. [7] itaque ingenti consensu fit senatus consultum ut Hannibali quattuor milia Numidarum in supplementum mitterentur et quadraginta elephanti et argenti talenta [8?] . . . que4 cum Magone in Hispaniam praemissus est ad conducenda viginti milia peditum, quattuor milia equitum, quibus exercitus qui in Italia quique in Hispania erant supplerentur.

1 Punico P(1): bracketed Gronovius.

2 A.U.C. 538

3 spe Gronovius: que P(8): quae C4R: om. A.

4 a lost numeral (D?) and a general's name (Carthalo Madvig) have been corrupted into dictator(que) P(1).

Livy. Books XXIII-XXV With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940: no copyright notice.

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