Πόπλιος Σκιπίων
Publius Scipio
Translated by Catharine Roth6 Sep 2006Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Natural son of Lucius, but by adoption grandson of Publius who was called the great;1 when he gained control over Carthage,2 which was thought to be richest of the cities in the inhabited world, he simply took nothing of the [sc. riches] out of that [city] for his own life, nor sold nor in any other manner took possession of anything, although he was not altogether well-to-do in his life-style, but being moderate in his property, as a Roman, he abstained not only from the [sc. riches3 taken] out of Carthage itself, but also allowed nothing at all of those [taken] out of Libya to be mixed with his own life-style.
This is not doubted among Romans.4
This is not doubted among Romans.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πόπλιος Σκιπίων, Λευκίου κατὰ φύσιν υἱός, Ποπλίου δὲ τοῦ μεγάλου κληθέντος κατὰ θέσιν υἱωνός, κύριος γενόμενος τῆς Καρχηδόνος, ἥτις ἐδόκει πολυχρημονέστατος τῶν κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην εἶναι πόλεων, ἁπλῶς τῶν ἐξ ἐκείνης οὐδὲν εἰς τὸν ἴδιον βίον μετήγαγεν, οὔτ' ὠνησάμενος οὔτ' ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ κτησάμενος οὐδέν, καίπερ οὐχ ὅλως εὐπορούμενος κατὰ τὸν βίον, ἀλλὰ μέτριος ὢν κατὰ τὴν ὕπαρξιν, ὡς Ῥωμαῖος, οὐχ οἷον δὲ τῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς Καρχηδόνος ἀπέσχετο μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ καθόλου τῶν ἐκ τῆς Λιβύης οὐδὲν ἐπιμιχθῆναι πρὸς τὸν ἴδιον εἴασε βίον. τοῦτο ἀναμφισβήτητον παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις.
Betacode
*po/plios *skipi/wn, *leuki/ou kata\ fu/sin ui(o/s, *popli/ou de\ tou= mega/lou klhqe/ntos kata\ qe/sin ui(wno/s, ku/rios geno/menos th=s *karxhdo/nos, h(/tis e)do/kei poluxrhmone/statos tw=n kata\ th\n oi)koume/nhn ei)=nai po/lewn, a(plw=s tw=n e)c e)kei/nhs ou)de\n ei)s to\n i)/dion bi/on meth/gagen, ou)/t' w)nhsa/menos ou)/t' a)/llw| tro/pw| kthsa/menos ou)de/n, kai/per ou)x o(/lws eu)porou/menos kata\ to\n bi/on, a)lla\ me/trios w)\n kata\ th\n u(/parcin, w(s *(rwmai=os, ou)x oi(=on de\ tw=n e)c au)th=s th=s *karxhdo/nos a)pe/sxeto mo/non, a)lla\ kai\ kaqo/lou tw=n e)k th=s *libu/hs ou)de\n e)pimixqh=nai pro\s to\n i)/dion ei)/ase bi/on. tou=to a)namfisbh/thton para\ *(rwmai/ois.
Notes (4)
- From Polybius 18.35.9-12. The subject is P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, 'born 185/4 BC as second son of L. Aemilius Paullus(2), adopted as a child by P. Cornelius Scipio(2) son of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus' (OCD4 s.v.).
cf. pi 2053, pi 2054, pi 2056. - 1Africanus is not so called in any Roman writer (as Walbank notes, who therefore inclines towards Schweighaeuser's view that megas here means 'elder'). ↩
- 2In 146 BC. ↩
- 3Adler reports that mss GM supply an explicit noun,
nomisma/twn "coins". ↩ - 4Adler regarded this as an addendum to the Polybius passage. It is in fact an abridgement of P's final sentence. ↩
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Revision history6 revisions · last 23 May 2016
- my typo — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- expanded n.3; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- supplemented translation — David Whitehead
- supplied notes; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth