Livy books XXI and XXII Author:Livy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: spiritus virum Sicilia Sardiniaque amissae: nam et Siciliam nimis celeri desperatione rerum concessam et Sardiniam inter motum Africae fraude Romanorum sti- 2... more » pendio etiam insuper imposito interceptam. His anxius curis ita se Africo bello, quod fuit sub recentem Roma- nam pacem, per quinque annos, ita deinde novem annis 2. in Hispania augendo Punico imperio gessit ut appareret maius eum quam quod gereret agitare in animo bellum 1 et, si diutius vixisset, Hamilcare duce Poenos arma Italiae inlaturos fuisse, qui Hannibalis ductu intulerunt. 3 Mors Hamilcaris peropportuna et pueritia Hannibalis distulerunt bellum. Medius Hasdrubal inter patrem ac filium octo ferme annos imperium obtinuit, flore aetatis, 4-uti ferunt, primo Hamilcari conciliatus, gener inde ob Hamilcar's animosity. — Sicilia . . . amissae, the loss of, etc.: this construction of a noun and participle, where the participle gives the main idea, instead of an abstract noun, becomes more and more frequent in the Augustan age. — nam: introducing the thought, in indirect discourse, which produced the feeling expressed in angebant. Such free uses of the indirect discourse are especially common in Livy. — nimis celeri, etc.: because the Carthaginian defeat was not so decisive as to compel the loss of their possessions in Sicily. — Sardiniam, etc.: the Romans, taking advantage (fraude) of the paralysis of the enemy through the war with the mercenaries, forced the Carthaginians by threats of war to abandon Sardinia and add a further amount to the sum agreed to in the original treaty at the end of the First Punic War. — imposito: the perfect is loosely used, in relation really to the time of the speaker, though apparently to that of the main verb interceptam. Hamilcar And Hasdrubal In Spain. 2. his anxiu...« less