Livy, Periochae 31-35

Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.

A large part of Livy's History of Rome since the Foundation is now lost, but fortunately we have an excerpt, called the Periochae, which helps us reconstruct the general scope. This translation was made by Jona Lendering.

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From Book 34

[34.1] The Lex Oppia, which the tribune of the plebs Gaius Oppius had carried during the Punic War to regulate the luxuries of women, was repealed, although Porcius Cato proposed that the law was not to be revoked.

[34.2] After the latter had proceeded to Hispania to a war that had originated in Emporiae, he pacified Hispania Citerior.

[34.3] Titus Quinctius Flamininus terminated the war successfully waged against the Spartans and their tyrant Nabis, giving them the peace they wanted, and liberating the inhabitants of Argos, who had been ruled by a tyrant.

[34.4] Itnote describes successful wars in Hispania and against the Boians and the Gallic Insubres.

[34.5] For the first time, the senators watched the Games, separated from the rest of the people.

[34.6] This was done on the initiative of censors Sextus Aelius Paetus and Gnaeus Cornelius Cethegus, to the indignation of the populace.

[34.7] Several colonies were founded.

[34.8] [194] Marcus Porcius Cato celebrated a triumph over Hispania.

[34.9] Titus Quinctius Flamininus, who had defeated king Philip [V] of Macedonia and Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, and had liberated all of Greece, celebrated a triumph that lasted three days.

[34.10] Carthaginian envoys reported that Hannibal, who had fled to [the Seleucid king] Antiochus [III the Great], was preparing a war with the king

[34.11] Hannibal, on the other hand, tried to incite the Carthaginians to wage war by sending Ariston of Tyre, without letters, to Carthage.