Livy, xxiii. 10.
Context. After the Revolt of Capua, when Hannibal made a public entry into the city, the whole population, with the exception of Decius Magius and his son, poured out to meet him.
11 in templo magistratuum = on the magistrates’ bench, (or tribunal).
12 Decium Magium, one of the few Capuan nobles faithful to Rome.
14-15 negaret . . . posse = urged that by the terms of the treaty (i.e. between the Capuans and H.) this could not be insisted on.—Church and Brodribb.
SECOND PUNIC WAR, 218-202 B.C.
The Revolt of Capua, 216-211 B.C. (2)
[A.] ‘Capua,’ it is said, ‘became Hannibal’s Cannae.’
Cum victoria Hannibal posset uti, frui maluit relictaque Roma Campaniam Tarentumque peragrare, ubi mox et ipse et exercitus ardor elanguit adeo ut vere dictum sit Capuam Hannibali Cannas fuisse. Si quidem invictum Alpibus, indomitum armis Campani—quis 5 crederet?—soles et tepentes fontibus Baiae subegerunt.