even more hannibal

Question 1

Id ego ius iurandum patri datum usque ad hanc aetatem ita conservavi, ut nemini dubium esse debeat, quin reliquo tempore eadem mente sim futurus

Answer 1

This oath, given to my father, I have kept so safe all the across this lifetime, that in the opinion of no one doubt is to be owed that I will be of the same mind for the rest of my life

Question 2

Quare si quid amice de romanis cogitabis, non imprudenter feceris, si me celaris; cum quidem bellum parabis, te ipsum frustraberis, si non me in eo principem posueris

Answer 2

Therefore, if you will make peace with Romans, you will have done it not unwisely, if you will have concealed it from me; when indeed you will prepare for war, you will have dissapointed yourself, if you dont place me in that matter as leader

Question 3

Hac igitur, qua diximus, aetate cum patre in hispaniam profectus est.

Answer 3

Therefore at this age, of which I spoke, he set out with his father in spain.

Question 4

Cuius post obitum, Hasdrubale imperatore suffecto, equitatuiomni praefuit

Answer 4

After his death, when Hasdrubal had been appointed replacement commander, he was in charge of all the cavalry.

Question 5

Hoc quoque interfecto, exercitus summam imperii ad eum detulit

Answer 5

Likewise with him having been killed, the army brought supreme command to him.

Question 6

Id Karthaginem delatum publie comprobatum est.

Answer 6

It was publically approved and made known in Carthage

Question 7

Sic Hannibal, minor quinque et viginti annis natus imperator factus, proximo triennio omnes gentes Hispaniae bello subegit;’saguntum, foederatam civitatem, vi expugnavit; tres exercitus maximos comparavit

Answer 7

Thus Hannibal, born less than 25 years ago, was made commander, in the course of the next 3 years, he conquered all the spanish tribes with war; he assualted Saguntum, an allied community, with strength; he prepared 3 large armies.

Question 8

Ex his unum in Africam misit, alterum cum Hasdrubale fratre in Hispania reliquit, tertium in Italiam secum duxit

Answer 8

From that, he sent one into Africa, left another with Hasdrubale, his brother, in spain, and lead the third into Italy with himself.

Question 9

Saltum Pyrenaeum transiit

Answer 9

He crossed throught the mountain pass of Pyrenees.

Question 10

Quacumque iter facit, cum omnibus incolis conflexit: neminem nisi victum dimisit

Answer 10

In whichever was he directed his course, he clashed with all the inhabitants: He sent away no one except the conquered.

Question 11

Ad Alpēs posteāquam vēnit, quae Italiam ab Galliā sēiungunt, quās nēmō umquam cum exercitū ante eum praeter Herculem Grāium trānsierat, quō factō is hodiē saltus Grāius appellātur, Alpicōs cōnantēs prohibēre trānsitū concīdit;

Answer 11

After he went to the Alps, which separated Italy from Gaul, which no one before him had ever crossed with an army except the Greek Hercules, in consequence of which today it is called the Greeek Mountain pass, he killed the Alps people attempting to hinder crossing;

Question 12

loca patefēcit, itinera mūniit, effēcit, ut eā elephantus ōrnātus īre posset, quā anteā ūnus homō inermis vix poterat rēpere.

Answer 12

he opened up the region, built roads, and made it so that armored elephants were able to advance on this road where previously one unarmed man was hardly able to crawl.

Question 13

Hāc cōpiās trādūxit in Italiamque pervēnit.

Answer 13

In this way, he brought across trooops into Italy and arrived.

Question 14

Cōnflīxerat apud Rhodanum cum P. Cornēliō Scīpiōne cōnsule eumque pepulerat.

Answer 14

He had already clashed near the Rhone with Publius Cornelius Scipio, the consul, and beat him.

Question 15

Cum hōc eōdem Clastidī apud Padum dēcernit sauciumque inde ac fugātum dīmittit.

Answer 15

With this same man, at Clastidium near the Po, he fought and then and thereafter, he departed, fleeing and wounded

Question 16

Tertiō īdem Scīpiō cum collēgā Tiberiō Longō apud Trebiam adversus eum vēnit.

Answer 16

For the third time, the same Scipio with his colleague Tiberius Longus came against him near Trebia.

Question 17

Cum hīs manum cōnseruit, utrōsque prōflīgāvit.

Answer 17

With them, he joined hands and he overthrew them both

Question 17

Hōc itinere adeō gravī morbō adficitur oculōrum, ut posteā numquam dextrō aequē bene ūsus sit.

Answer 17

During this journey, he is afflicted by such a grave illness of the eye that he never again had equally good use of the right eye

Question 18

Inde per Ligurēs Appennīnum trānsiit, petēns Etrūriam.

Answer 18

Then he passed through the country of the Ligurians over the Apennines, on his way to Etruria

Question 19

Quā valētūdine cum etiam tum premerētur lectīcāque ferrētur, C. Flāminium cōnsulem apud Trasumēnum cum exercitū īnsidiīs circumventum occīdit, neque multō post C. Centēnium praetōrem cum dēlēctā manū saltūs occupantem.

Answer 19

Although even then he was being oppressed by his affliction and was carried in a litter, he killed Flaminium, having been surrounded by ambush with an army near Trasumenus, not much after, he killed Gaius Centenium, the praetor, who was occupying the woods with hand picked men.

Question 20

Hinc in Āpuliam pervēnit.

Answer 20

Then he reached Apulia

Question 21

Ibi obviam eī vēnērunt duo cōnsulēs, C. Terentius et L. Aemilius.

Answer 21

There 2 consuls came against him, Gaius Terentius and Lucius Aemilius

Question 22

Utrīusque exercitūs ūnō proeliō fugāvit, Paulum cōnsulem occīdit et aliquot praetereā cōnsulārēs, in hīs Cn. Servīlium Geminum, quī superiōre annō fuerat cōnsul.

Answer 22

He chased away both of them in one battle, killed Paulus, the consul, and several other consuls, among them Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, who had been consul in the previous year.

Question 23

Hāc pugnā pugnātā, Rōmam profectus nūllō resistente.

Answer 23

Having fought the fight with them, he departed to Rome with no one resisting

Question 24

In propinquīs urbī montibus morātus est.

Answer 24

He was delayed in the mountains near the city.

Question 25

Cum aliquot ibi diēs castra habuisset et Capuam reverterētur, Q. Fabius Māximus, dictātor Rōmānus, in agrō Falernō eī sē obiēcit.

Answer 25

When he was held there in camp for several days and was returned to Campua, Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman dictator, set himself opposite him in the Falernian feilds