pugnatum eft vi. idus of the ides of March. Martias. Statim Car. Immediately the Carthathaginenfes pacem pe- ginians fued for peace, and tierunt, tributaque iis a peace was granted to pax. Captivi Roma- them. The prifoners of norum, qui tenebantur the Romans, who were in aCarthaginenfibus red. the poffeffion of the Carditi funt. Etiam Car. thaginians, were restored. thaginenfes petierunt, The Carthaginians likeut redimi eos captivos wife defired, they might be liceret, quos ex Afris permitted to redeem their Romani tenebant. Se- prifoners, which the Ro natus juffit fine pretio, mans had of the Africans. dari eos, qui in publi- *The Senate ordered thofe ca cuftodia effent ; qui to be reftored without ranautem a privatis tene- fom, who were in the cuf rentur, ut, pretio dom- tody of the public; but for inis reddito, Carthagi- those who were in the pofnem redirent; atque fiffion of private perfons, id pretium ex fifco ma. that their ranfom money gis quam a Carthagi being paid their masters, nenfibus folveretur. they should return to Carthage; and that that money fhould be paid out of the public treafury, rather than by the Carthaginians. 28. Quintus Luc- 28 Quintius Lutatius tatius, Aulus Manlius and Aulus Manlius being Confules creati, bellum chofen Confuls, made war Falifcis intulerunt; upon the Falifci: which quæ civitas Italiæ o- was formerly a wealthy pulenta quondam fuit: ftate of Italy; which the quod This was generous and noble, and nothing like offering to keep Regulus, to the ruin of his honor, and their own flame, quod ambo Confules Confuls together finished in intra fex dies poftquam fix days after they came venerant, tranfegerunt, there; fifteen thousand of xv. millibus hoftium the enemy being flain, a cæfis, cæteris pace con- peace granted to the reft, ceffa, agro tamen ex and yet their land to the medietate fublato. half part being taken from them. EUTROPII EUTROPII BREVIARIUM HISTORIÆ ROMANÆ. LIBER III. INITO igitur Pu FIN ei WH THEREFORE the Punick war being per xxii. annos con- ended, which was carried tractum eft; Romani on for 22 years; the Ro. jam clariffima gloria mans being now famous noti, legatos ad Ptole- for their most celebrated mæum, Ægypti regem, glory, fent ambaffadors to miferunt, auxilia pro- Ptolemy, King of Egypt, mittentes: quia rex promifing him affiftance; Syriæ Antiochus ei becaufe Antiochus, King of bellum intulerat. Ille Syria had made war upon gratias Romanis egit, him. He gave thanks to auxilia non accepit: the Romans, but did not jam enim fuerat pugna accept their affiflance; for tranfacta. Eodem tem- now the war was ended. pore potentiffimus rex At the fame time Hiero. Siciliæ Hiero Romam the most powerful King of venit, ad ludos fpec- Sicily, came to Rome to fee tandos, & ducenta mil. the public games, and prelia modiorum triciti fented 200,000 * Modii of populo dono dedit. wheat to the people. 2. Lucio The Modius is commonly computed to be about a peck and a half of our measure. 2. Lucio Cornelio 2. L. Cornelius Lentu Lentulo, Fulvio Flac- lus and Fulvius Flaccus. co Confulibus, quibus being Confuls, in whofe Hiero Romam vene- year Hiero had come to rat, etiam contra Li- Rome, a war was carried gures intra Italiam on likewife against the Libellum geftum eft, & gurians within Italy, and de his triumphatum. there was a triumph upon Carthaginenfes tum their account. The Car. bella reparare tenta. bant Sardini fes, qui ex conditione pacis Romanis parere debebant, ad rebellandum impellentes : Venit tamen legatio Carthaginenfium Romam, & pacem impetravit. 3.Tito Manlio Torquato, Caio Attilio Balbo Confulibus, de Sardis triumphatum eft: & pace omnibus locis facta, Romani nullum bellum habuerunt, quod his poft Romam conditam, femel tantum, Numa Pompilio regnante, contigerat. thaginians then attempted to renew the war, exciting the Sardinians, who by an article of the peace were obliged to be fubject to the Romans, to rebel; yet an embaffy of the Carthaginians came to Rome, and obtained peace. 3. T. Manlius Torquatus and C. Attilius Balbus being Confuls, there was a tri mph over the Sardinians and a peace being made in all places, the Romans had no war, which had happened to them but once, fince the building of Rome, when Numa Pompilius was reigning. Lucius Pofthu. 4. The Confuls L. Poft mius Albinus, Cnæus humius Albinus, Cnaus Fulvius Centumalus Fulvius Confules bellum con ried on a tra Illyrios gefferunt: Illyrians : Centumalus curwar against the and taking - & & multis civitatibus many cities, received likecaptis, etiam reges in wife their princes upon fubdeditionem accepe- miffion. Then for the firft runt. Tum primum time there was a triumph de Illyriis triumpha- over the Illyrians. tum eft. 5. Lucio Emilio 5. When L. Æmilius Confule, ingentes Gal- was Conful, a vast army of lorum copiæ Alpes the Gauls paffed the Alps: tranfierunt: fed pro- but all Italy was unanimous Romanis tota Italia for the Romans; and it is confenfit: traditum recorded by Fabius the hiftoque eft Fabio hiftori. rian, who was actually co, qui ei bello inter- prefent in that war, that fuit, DCCC. millia hom- *eight hundred thoufand inum parata ad id bel- men were levied for that lum fuiffe: fed res per war: but the business was Confules tantum prof- fuccessfully managed by the pere gefta eft: xl. mil. Confuls only; forty thoulia hoftium interfecta fand of the enemy were funt, & triumphus - flain; and a triumph volmilio decretus. ed for Emilius.. 6. Aliquot deinde annis poft, contra Gallos intra Italiam pugnatum eft: finitumque 6. Then fome years after, the Romans again engaged against the Gauls within Italy: and the war eft * An incredible number, confidering the Romans upon other occafio s never affected great arme hey rarely exceeded frty thoufand, and were often much below tha numbe; their fuccelles were owing to the admirable contrivan of their government at home, for the encouragement of true meri, and their good difcipline in their armies abroad. But this ex ra rdinary preparation for the reception of the Gauls, was the effect hat terrible impreffion, the facking of Rome by that people, had made in the minds of the Romans. |