Livy, Periochae 36-40
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.
From Book 38 |
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[38.1] In Epirus, consul Marcus Fulvius [Nobilior] accepted the surrender of the besieged Ambracians, subdued Cephallenia, and granted peace to the defeated Aetolians. |
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[38.2] His colleague consul Gnaeus Manlius defeated the Gallograecians [Galatians] (the Tolostobogians, Tectosages, and Trocmians) who had been brought to Asia by Brennus and were the only ones on this side of the Taurus who not obeyed. |
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[38.3] There is [in book 38] an account of their origin and the way in which they occupied their country. |
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[38.4] An example of female virtue and chastity is given. |
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[38.5] Once, the wife of a Gallograecan king killed the centurion who had captured her and wanted to rape her. |
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[38.6] The ritual cleansing of the state was celebrated by the censors. |
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[38.7] 258,310 citizens were registered. |
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[38.8] A treaty of friendship was concluded with king Ariarathes of Cappadocia. |
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[38.9] Although the ten deputies according to whose advise he had concluded a treaty with [king] Antiochus [III the Great] were against it, Gnaeus Manlius, after explaining his behavior in the Senate, celebrated a triumph over the Gallograecians. |
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[38.10] On the appointed day, [Publius Cornelius] Scipio Africanus, who was summoned to court (as some say) by tribune of the plebs Quintus Petilius (or Naevius, according to others) because he had damaged the public treasury by taking too much of Antiochus' booty, went to the Rostra and declared: "On this day, Romans, I defeated Carthage", and climbed to the Capitol, followed by the populace. |
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[38.11] After this, he went into voluntary exile to Liternum, to be sure that he would not suffer from the unjust attacks of the tribunes. |
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[38.12] (It is unclear whether he was buried there or in Rome, because there are monuments on both sites.) |
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[38.13] Lucius [Cornelius] Scipio Asiaticus, the brother of Africanus, was accused of the same criminal peculation, condemned, put in chains, and conducted to the prison, but tribune Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who had until then been an enemy of the Scipiones, intervened and married - because of this - a daughter of Africanus. |
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[38.14] When the quaestors were sent out to confiscate Asiaticus' possessions for the state, they did not find any trace of the king's money, and were also unable to find the money for which he had been fined. |
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[38.15] He refused to accept the enormous sum of money collected by his relatives and friends; and even what he needed for living, he returned. |