Liv. 21.10.1Itaque, praeterquam quod admissī audītīque sunt, ea quoque vāna atque irrita lēgātiō fuit.And so that embassy too was empty and fruitless, except that they were admitted and heard. Liv. 21.10.2Hannō ūnus adversus senātum causam foederis magnō silentiō propter auctōritātem suam, nōn cum adsēnsū audientium ēgit, per deōs foederum arbitrōs ac testīs senātum obtestāns, nē Rōmānum cum Saguntīnō suscitārent bellum;Hanno alone, against the senate, pleaded the cause of the treaty, amid deep silence owing to his authority, not with the assent of his hearers, calling on the senate by the gods, the arbiters and witnesses of treaties, not to stir up a war with Rome along with the war with Saguntum; Liv. 21.10.3monuisse, praedīxisse sē, nē Hamilcaris prōgeniem ad exercitum mitterent;he had warned them, he had foretold, not to send Hamilcar's offspring to the army; Liv. 21.10.3nōn mānēs, nōn stirpem eius conquiēscere virī, nec umquam, dōnec sanguinis nōminisque Barcīnī quisquam supersit, quiētūra Rōmāna foedera.neither the shade nor the stock of that man were at rest, nor would treaties with Rome ever remain undisturbed as long as anyone of Barcine blood and name survived.
Liv. 21.10.4"Iuvenem flagrantem cupīdine regnī viamque ūnam ad id cernentem, sī ex bellīs bella serendō succīnctus armīs legiōnibusque vīvat, velut māteriam ignī praebentēs ad exercitūs mīsistis.'A young man burning with desire for kingship and seeing only one road to it, if by sowing war after war he could live girt with arms and legions, you sent to the armies, as if supplying fuel to a fire. Liv. 21.10.4Aluistis ergō hoc incendium, quō nunc ārdētis.So you have fed this fire in which you are now burning. Liv. 21.10.5Saguntum vestrī circumsedent exercitūs, unde arcentur foedere;Your armies are besieging Saguntum, from which the treaty bars them; Liv. 21.10.5mox Carthāginem circumsedēbunt Rōmānae legiōnēs ducibus īsdem diīs, per quōs priōre bellō rupta foedera sunt ultī.soon Roman legions will besiege Carthage, led by the same gods through whom in the former war they avenged the breaking of the treaty. Liv. 21.10.6Utrum hostem an vōs an fortūnam utrīusque populī ignōrātis?Is it the enemy, or yourselves, or the fortune of each people that you do not know? Liv. 21.10.6Lēgātōs ab sociīs et prō sociīs venientēs bonus imperātor vester in castra nōn admīsit, iūs gentium sustulit;Envoys coming from allies and on behalf of allies your fine general did not admit into his camp; he abolished the law of nations; Liv. 21.10.6hī tamen, unde nē hostium quidem lēgātī arcentur, pulsī ad vōs vēnērunt;yet these men, driven away from where not even the envoys of enemies are kept off, have come to you; Liv. 21.10.6rēs ex foedere repetunt;they seek redress under the treaty; Liv. 21.10.6pūblica fraus absit, auctōrem culpae et reum crīminis dēposcunt.so that the state may be free of guilt, they demand the author of the wrong and the man accused of the crime.
Liv. 21.10.7Quō lēnius agunt, segnius incipiunt, eō, cum coeperint, vereor nē persevērantius saeviant.The more gently they proceed and the more slowly they begin, the more relentlessly, I fear, they will rage once they have begun. Liv. 21.10.7Aegātēs īnsulās Erycemque ante oculōs prōpōnite, quae terrā marīque per quattuor et vīgintī annōs passī sītis.Set before your eyes the Aegates Islands and Eryx, and all that you suffered on land and sea for twenty-four years. Liv. 21.10.8Nec puer hic dux erat, sed pater ipse Hamilcar, Mārs alter, ut istī volunt.Nor was this boy our leader then, but his father Hamilcar himself, a second Mars, as these men would have it. Liv. 21.10.8Sed Tarentō, id est Ītalia, nōn abstinuerāmus ex foedere, sīcut nunc Saguntō nōn abstinēmus.But we had not kept away from Tarentum, that is, from Italy, as the treaty required, just as now we are not keeping away from Saguntum. Liv. 21.10.9Vīcērunt ergō Diī hominēs, et id dē quō verbīs ambigēbātur, uter populus foedus rūpisset, ēventus bellī velut aequus iūdex, unde iūs stābat, eī victōriam dedit.So the gods prevailed over men, and on the question disputed in words, which people had broken the treaty, the outcome of the war, like a fair judge, gave victory to the side on which right stood.
Liv. 21.10.10Carthāginī nunc Hannibal vīneās turrēsque admovet, Carthāginis moenia quatit ariete: Saguntī ruīnae — falsus utinam vātēs sim — nostrīs capitibus incident, susceptumque cum Saguntīnīs bellum habendum cum Rōmānīs est.It is against Carthage that Hannibal is now moving up his sheds and towers, Carthage's walls that he is shaking with the ram: the ruins of Saguntum — would that I were a false prophet — will fall on our heads, and the war begun with the Saguntines must be fought with the Romans. Liv. 21.10.11Dēdēmus ergō Hannibalem?"Shall we then surrender Hannibal?" Liv. 21.10.11Dīcet aliquis.someone will say. Liv. 21.10.11Sciō meam levem esse in eō auctōritātem propter paternās inimīcitiās;I know that my authority in this matter is slight because of my enmity with his father; Liv. 21.10.11sed et Hamilcarem eō perīsse laetātus sum, quod, sī ille vīveret, bellum iam habērēmus cum Rōmānīs, et hunc iuvenem tamquam furiam facemque huius bellī ōdī ac dētestor;but I both rejoiced that Hamilcar perished, because, if he were alive, we would already have a war with the Romans, and this young man I hate and loathe as the fury and firebrand of this war; Liv. 21.10.12nec dēdendum sōlum ad piāculum ruptī foederis, sed, sī nēmō dēposceret, dēvehendum in ultimās maris terrārumque ōrās, ablēgandum eō, unde nec ad nōs nōmen fāmaque eius accidere neque ille sollicitāre quiētae cīvitātis statum posset.and I think he should not only be surrendered in atonement for the broken treaty, but, even if no one demanded him, he should be carried off to the farthest shores of sea and land and banished to a place from which neither his name and fame could reach us nor he unsettle the condition of a peaceful state.
Liv. 21.10.13Ego ita cēnseō, lēgātōs extemplō Rōmam mittendōs, quī senātuī satisfaciant, aliōs, quī Hannibalī nūntient, ut exercitum ab Saguntō abdūcat, ipsumque Hannibalem ex foedere Rōmānīs dēdant;This is my proposal: that envoys be sent at once to Rome to give satisfaction to the senate, and others to tell Hannibal to withdraw his army from Saguntum, and that they surrender Hannibal himself to the Romans in accordance with the treaty; Liv. 21.10.13tertiam lēgātiōnem ad rēs Saguntīnīs reddendās dēcernō."I propose a third embassy to restore their property to the Saguntines.'