Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 38
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D., Ed.

59. But, by Hercules, they say in the case of Scipio that the very terms of peace were suspicious, as too favourable to Antiochus; for it was implied that his kingdom had been left undiminished; that after his defeat he possessed everything he had owned before the war; [2] that, although he had had a great quantity of gold and silver, none of it had been turned in to the treasury, all of it converted to private use; [3] but (as to the last charge) had not so much gold and silver been displayed before the eyes of all in the triumph of Lucius Scipio as had not been carried in ten other triumphs if they were combined into one?¹ [4] For what (returning to their first charge) shall I say [p. 207]about the boundaries of the kingdom of Antiochus?² [5] He had held, as we know, all Asia and the adjacent parts of Europe. How great this section of the earth is, extending from the Taurus mountain clear to the Aegean Sea, how many cities and even nations it contains, all men know. [6] This region, extending in length more than thirty days' march and ten in width between the two seas, as far as the crest of the Taurus mountain, had been taken from Antiochus, who had been driven back into the farthest corner of the earth. [7] What more could have been taken from him by a peace granted without a bribe? Macedonia, he reminded them, had been left to Philip after his defeat, Lacedaemon to Nabis, nor had Quinctius been the victim of a trumped-up charge; he, of course, had not had Africanus as a brother; although his fame should have aided Lucius Scipio, his unpopularity had done him harm. [8] Judgment had been given that so much gold and silver had been conveyed into the house of Lucius Scipio as the sale of all his property could not produce. Where, then, he asked, was the royal gold, where all the legacies he had received? [9] In a house which extravagance had not drained, this heap of new wealth should be apparent. But, of course, what cannot be obtained from his property the foes of Lucius Scipio will seek from his body and from his back, by means of persecution and insults, so that this most distinguished man may be shut up in prison among thieves of the night and brigands and may die in the: darkness of a cell and then be cast out naked before the prison. [10] And it was not, he concluded, to the Cornelian family so much as to the City of Rome that this would bring the [11??] blush of shame.

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