17.  M. Atīliō Rēgulō L. Iūliō Libōne cōnsulibus Sallentīnīs in Āpuliā bellum indictum est captīque sunt cum cīvitāte simul Brundisīnī et dē hīs triumphātum est.

18.  (1) Annō quadringentēsimō septuāgēsimō septimō, cum iam clārum urbis Rōmae nōmen esset, arma tamen extrā Ītaliam mōta nōn fuerant.

(2) Ut igitur cognōscerētur, quae cōpiae Rōmānōrum essent, cēnsus est habitus. Inventa sunt cīvium capita ducenta nōnāgintā duo mīlia trecenta trīgintā quattuor, quamquam ā conditā urbe numquam bella cessāssent. Et contrā Āfrōs bellum susceptum est prīmum Ap. Claudiō Q. Fulviō cōnsulibus. In Siciliā contrā eōs pūgnātum est et Ap. Claudius dē Āfrīs et rēge Siciliae Hierōne triumphāvit.

War with the Sallentini and Brundisium, 267 BCE

17. M. Atīliō Rēgulō L. Iūliō Libōne cōnsulibus: ablative absolute with form of esse assumed (AG 419.a). Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Julius Libo were consuls in 267 BCE when they campaigned against the Salentine tribe in Apulia, and captured Brundisium.

captīque sunt: subject is Sallentīnī

cum cīvitāte simul Brundisīnī: The people of Brundisium, the modern Brindisi. It was a seaport of Calabria, the chief naval station of the Romans on the Adriatic Sea, and their regular port of departure for Greece (Hazzard).

dē hīs: "over them"; the regular expression used for a triumph celebrated for a victory over an enemy (Hazzard). For more information on triumphs, see triumphs.

First Punic War, 264241 BCE; Romans Victorious in Sicily, 264 BCE

18. Annō quadringentēsimō septuāgēsimō septimō: AUC 477 = 275 BCE.

cum iam clārum urbis Rōmae nōmen essetthe adverb tamen signals that cum here is concessive (AG 527).

extrā Ītaliam: "The Roman power was now dominant throughout the peninsula to the river Aesis; the valley of the Po, however, was still reckoned part of Gaul" (Hazzard).

mōta nōn fuerant: mōta nōn erant, "had not been carried" (Bird); Eutropius ordinarily uses fueram, etc., for eram in the Pluperfect Passive Indicative (Hazzard).

(2) Ut igitur cognōscerētur: purpose clause signaled by ut (AG 531)

quae cōpiae Rōmānōrum essentindirect question (AG 574); cōpiae = "troops"

cēnsus: Eutropius discusses the census in Brev. 1.16 and Brev. 2.6. For more information on the Roman census, see Smith, census.

cessāssent: syncopated form of cessāvissent; pluperfect subjunctive in a concessive clause (AG 527)

contra Āfrōs: i.e., Carthaginians.

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Carthage was one of the first cities of the ancient world. It was situated on the north coast of Africa and was said to have been founded by Phoenicians from Tyre under the leadership of Dido. Carthage had been the ally of Rome in the war against Pyrrhus. But the growing commercial activity of Carthage caused jealousy to arise which resulted in the three wars for the supremacy of the western Mediterranean—known as the Punic wars. The first was from 264 BCE to 241 BCE, the second 218202 BCE and the third 149146 BCE. It resulted in the capture and destruction of Carthage by the Romans under P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Hazzard).

bellum susceptum est: In 264 BCE a band of Campanian adventurers, the Mamertini, who had seized Messana and used the Carthaginians to compel Hiero, King of Syracuse (not Sicily) to abandon his siege, then appealed to Rome to rid themselves of the Carthaginians. Carthage and Syracuse joined forces to oust the Mamertini but were compelled to withdraw by a Roman consular army under Appius Claudius (Bird).

Ap. Claudiō Q. Fulviō cōnsulibus: Appius Claudius Caudex and M. Fulvius Flaccus were consuls in 264 BCE when the First Punic War began.

contrā eōs: Āfrī

pūgnātum est: passive form is used impersonally (AG 207.d)

triumphāvit: According to Walbank, Eutropius invented Appius Claudius' triumph (Bird).

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