=23.= Intereā proelium ab utrōque duce īnstrūctum est, quāle
vix ūllā memoriā fuit, cum perītissimī virī cōpiās suās ad
bellum ēdūcerent. Scīpiō victor recēdit paene ipsō Hannibale
captō, quī prīmum cum multīs equitibus, deinde cum
vīgintī, postrēmō cum quattuor ēvāsit. Inventa in castrīs 5
Hannibalis argentī pondō vīgintī mīlia, aurī octōgintā, cētera
supellectilis cōpiōsa. Post id certāmen pāx cum
Karthāginiēnsibus facta est. Scīpiō Rōmam rediit, ingentī glōriā
triumphāvit atque Āfricānus ex eō appellārī coeptus est.
Fīnem accēpit secundum Pūnicum bellum post annum 10
nōnum decimum quam coeperat.
LIBER QUĀRTUS
FROM THE END OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR TO THE END OF THE WAR
WITH JUGURTHA, 201-106 B.C.
_Second Macedonian War, 200-196 B.C._
=1.= Trānsāctō Pūnicō bellō secūtum est Macedonicum contrā
Philippum rēgem quīngentēsimō quīnquāgēsimō et prīmō
annō ab urbe conditā.
=2.= T. Quīntius Flāminīnus adversum
Philippum rēgem missus rem prōsperē gessit. Pāx eī data 15
est hīs lēgibus: nē Graeciae cīvitātibus, quās Rōmānī contrā
eum dēfenderant,[76] bellum īnferret, ut captīvōs et trānsfugās
redderet, quīnquāgintā sōlās nāvēs habēret, reliquās Rōmānīs
dederet, per annōs[77] decem quaterna mīlia pondō
argentī praestāret et obsidem daret fīlium suum Dēmētrium. 20
37 T. Quīntius etiam Lacedaemoniīs intulit bellum. Ducem
eōrum Nabidem vīcit et quibus voluit condiciōnibus in
fidem accēpit. Ingentī glōriā triumphāvit; dūxit ante currum
nōbilissimōs obsidēs, Dēmētrium, Philippī fīlium, et
Armenēn Nabidis. 5
_Syro-Aetolian War, 192-189 B.C._
=3.= Trānsāctō bellō Macedonicō secūtum est Syriacum contrā
Antiochum rēgem P. Cornēliō Scīpiōne M. Aciliō Glabriōne
cōnsulibus. Huic Antiochō Hannibal sē iūnxerat, Karthāginem,
patriam suam, metū nē Rōmānīs trāderētur,[78] relinquēns.
M. Acilius Glabriō in Achaeā bene pūgnāvit. Castra 10
rēgis Antiochī nocturnā pūgnā capta sunt, ipse fugātus.
Philippō, quia contrā Antiochum Rōmānīs[79] fuisset auxiliō,[79]
fīlius Dēmētrius redditus est.
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