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“Then as to his military fame, by which, as by a dowry, he was recommended to notice, it was too splendid for an officer acting under a king.” Livy, The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 · insight
Rome organizes fleets and troops for Sicily, Sardinia, and coastal defense, assigns further commanders in Spain and to guard Italy, and records prodigies interpreted by the pontiffs, after which consuls depart for provinces.
was passed, ordering a supplication to be made that the circumstance of his crossing over into Africa might be beneficial to the Roman people, the general himself, and his army. 2. Three thousand men were enlisted for Sicily, and lest any fleet should go thither from Africa, as all the efficient troops that province had possessed had been transported into Africa, it was resolved that the sea-coast of that island sho…
The new command structure is laid out: Scipio continues in Africa, legions are assigned across Bruttium, Sicily, Sardinia, Etruria, and Spain, fleets are apportioned, and Rome orders additional city legions for the coming campaigns.
him, then the consul should not pass out of Sicily into Africa. That the other consul, to whose lot Italy fell, should receive two legions from Marcus Sextius the praetor. 41. Publius Scipio was continued in command in the province of Africa, with the armies which he then had. To the praetor Marcus Valerius Falto the two legions in Bruttium, which Caius Livius had commanded the preceding year, were assigned. Publius…
Livy summarizes a year’s governance: Rome casts lots for provinces and assigns praetors, records prodigies, administers religious expiations, handles complaints about colonists, and notes Macedonian preparations and alliances.
_Successes of Titus Quinctius Flamininus against Philip; and of his brother Lucius with the fleet, assisted by Attalus and the Rhodians. Treaty of friendship with the Achaeans. Conspiracy of the slaves discovered and suppressed. The number of the praetors augmented to six. Defeat of the Insubrian Gauls by Cornelius Cethegus. Treaty of friendship with Nabis, tyrant of Lacedaemon. Capture of sev…
With preparations for war against Antiochus underway, Livy lists Roman administrative decisions and religious dedications, then describes Antiochus’s delays at Smyrna, Alexandria Troas, and Lampsacus plus debates over sending ships to Africa and Hannibal’s role.
the Capitol, over the canopy of the shrine, and also twelve gilded bucklers. The same aediles built a portico on the outside of the Triple Gate, in the Carpenters' Square. 42. While the Romans were busily employed in preparing for a new war, Antiochus, on his part, was not idle. Three cities detained him some time, Smyrna, Alexandria in Troas, and Lampsacus, which hitherto he had not been able either to reduce by fo…
The notes elaborate on Roman offices, honors like triumphs, logistical details about provinces and plots against consuls, and terminological points such as “imperator” and “pactione provinciae.”
facetiae, multusque lepos inerat.* Both *facetiae* and *lepos_ mean "agreeableness, humor, pleasantry," but *lepos* here seems to refer to diction, as in Cic. Orat. i. 7: *Magnus in jocando lepos.* [142] XXVI. By an arrangement respecting their provinces--_Pactione provinciae_. This passage has been absurdly misrepresented by most translators, except De Brosses. Even Rose, who was a scholar, translated *pactione pro…
The next day the senate meets, awards honors, assigns provinces to the conspirators, and Antony manages Caesar’s will and funeral; the public reaction turns the mourning into riots and arson against the assassins, which they survive.
besieged, dismissed the most eminent of those that had accompanied them thither, not thinking it just that they who were not partakers of the fact should share in the danger. But the next day, the senate being assembled in the temple of the Earth, and Antony and Plancus and Cicero having made orations recommending concord in general and an act of oblivion, it was decreed, that the men should not only be put out of a…