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26. multae classes Romanae e Sicilia atque
ipso illo portu profectae erant; ceterum non eo bello
solum—nec id mirum; praedatum enim tantummodo
pleraeque classes ierant—sed ne priore quidem ulla
profectio tanti spectaculi fuit;
[2]
quamquam, si magnitudine classis1 aestimares, et2 bini consules cum binis exercitibus ante traiecerant et prope totidem rostratae in illis classibus fuerant quot onerariis Scipio
tum traiciebat;
[3]
nam praeter quadraginta longas naves
quadringentis ferme onerariis exercitum. travexit.
[4]
Sed et bellum bello secundum priori3 ut atrocius [p. 310]
Romanis videretur, cum quod in Italia bellabatur,4 tum ingentes strages tot exercituum simul caesis ducibus effecerant,
[5?]
et Scipio dux partim factis fortibus partim suapte fortuna quadam, ingenti ad incrementa gloriae re,5 celebratus converterat animos, simul et mens ipsa traiciendi,
[6?]
nulli ante eo bello duci temptata, quod ad Hannibalem6 detrahendum ex Italia transferendumque et finiendum in Africa bellum se transire volgaverat.
[7]
concurrerat ad spectaculum in portum omnis turba non habitantium modo Lilybaei, sed legationum omnium ex Sicilia,
quae et ad prosequendum Scipionem officii causa
convenerant et praetorem provinciae M. Pomponium
secutae fuerant;
[8]
ad hoc legiones quae in Sicilia
relinquebantur ad prosequendos commilitones processerant; nec classis modo prospectantibus e
terra, sed terra etiam omnis circa referta turba
spectaculo navigantibus erat.
1 classis P(1)n Aldus: classes Sp?A3HJK Froben 2.
2 aestimares, etSp（probably）A3N3: extimares et HJK: es- (or aes-) timaret sed si P(3)C4.
3 priori P(1)N: priore A8HJK Conway.
4 A.U.C. 550
5 re inserted by Harant, Riemann (momento by M. Müller), to relieve a desperate situation in which ingenti would have to agree with fortuna. For ingenti ad (all MSS., but corrupt according to Conway) there are several unsatisfactory emendations.
6 temptata ... Hannibalem A'N' (marg.)HJK Aldus, Froben: om. (and de- also) P(1)N; temptata probably corrupt, Conway.
Livy. Books XXVIII-XXX With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1949: no copyright notice.
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