σύ, τέκνον;” Exanimis[1], diffugientibus[2] cūnctīs[3], aliquamdiū iacuit, dōnec lectīcae[4] impositum, dēpendente[5] bracchiō[6], trēs servolī[7] domum rettulērunt[8]. Nec in[9] tot vulneribus, ut Antistius medicus[10] exīstimābat, lētāle[11] ūllum repertum est, nisi quod[12] secundō[13] locō in pectore[14] accēperat.
The second Punic War, waged between the Romans and Carthaginians from 218 to 201 B.C., ended in a complete victory for the Romans. The latter, however, were suspicious that Hannibal, the most famous general of the Carthaginians, was simply biding his time to renew the war under more favorable conditions; and so they desired to arrest and hold him as a prisoner. By hastening into exile, Hannibal escaped for some years, and improved the opportunity to stir up a great deal of trouble for the Romans in the East.
Quae[15] dum in Asiā[16] geruntur, accidit[17] cāsū[18] ut lēgātī Prūsiae[19] Rōmae apud T. Quīnctium Flāminīnum cōnsulārem[20]
- ↑ Exanimis: exanimis, -is, -e: lifeless.
- ↑ diffugientibus: diffugiō, 3, -fūgī: scatter.
- ↑ cūnctīs: i.e. omnibus, as noun (cūnctī, -ae, -a).
- ↑ lectīcae: lectīca, -ae: f, litter.
- ↑ dēpendente: dēpendēns, -entis: part., hanging down.
- ↑ bracchiō: cf. p. 168, l. 5.
- ↑ servolī: servolus, -ī: m, cf. servus, young slave.
- ↑ rettulērunt: sc. eum.
- ↑ in: amongst.
- ↑ medicus: medicus, -ī: m, physician.
- ↑ lētāle: i.e. exitiāle (lētālis, -is, -e).
- ↑ nisi quod: excepting (one) which.
- ↑ secundō: i.e. specially vulnerable; lit. favorable.
- ↑ pectore: pectus, -oris: n, chest.
- ↑ Quae: i.e. events narrated in previous chapters.
- ↑ Asiā: i.e. Asia Minor.
- ↑ accidit: impersonal expression.
- ↑ cāsū: i.e. forte.
- ↑ Prūsiae: (nom. in -a, or -as): king of Bithynia (cf. p. 170, l. 5), The gen. may be rendered “from.”.
- ↑ cōnsulārem: cōnsulāris, -is: m, ex-consul.
