14. L. Cornēliō Scīpiōne: cf. Bk. III, 16.
Scīpiō Āfricānus: although Scipio Africanus was the legatus of his brother, yet he practically acted as commander, as his brother was a man of no ability.
17. nāvālī proeliō: this battle, fought at the mouth of the Eurymedon, off Aspendus in Pamphylia, “was the first naval battle and the last battle fought by Hannibal against the Romans.”
18. apud Māgnēsiam: “with the day of Magnesia Asia was erased from the list of great states; and never perhaps did a great power fall so rapidly, so thoroughly, and so ignominiously as the kingdom of the Seleucidae under this Antiochus the Great.” Mommsen.
20. Eumenēs: Antiochus had offered one of his daughters in marriage to Eumenes, the king of Pergamus, on condition that he assist him against the Romans.
22. ex parte rēgis: ‘on the side of the king.’
24. data est: sc. pāx.
25. recēderet: cf. īnferret, Ch. 2.
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1. concitātōrem bellī: ‘who had aroused the war’; often it is best to translate nouns of Agency by a clause.