Liv. 21.13.1" sī cīvis vester Alcō, sīcut ad pācem petendam ad Hannibalem vēnit, ita pācis condiciōnēs ab Hannibale ad vōs rettulisset, supervacāneum hoc mihi fuisset iter, quō nec ōrātor Hannibalis nec trānsfuga ad vōs vēnī;'If your fellow citizen Alco, just as he came to Hannibal to seek peace, had brought the terms of peace back from Hannibal to you, this journey of mine would have been unnecessary, a journey on which I have come to you neither as Hannibal's spokesman nor as a deserter; Liv. 21.13.2sed cum ille aut vestrā aut suā culpā mānserit apud hostem — sua, sī metum simulāvit, vestra, sī perīculum est apud vōs vēra referentibus — , ego, nē ignōrārētis esse aliquās et salūtis et pācis vōbīs condiciōnēs, prō vetustō hospitiō, quod mihi vōbīscum est, ad vōs vēnī.but since he has remained with the enemy, through either your fault or his own — his own, if he feigned fear, yours, if there is danger among you for those who report the truth — I have come to you, for the sake of the old bond of hospitality between us, so that you should not be unaware that there are some terms for both your safety and peace.
Liv. 21.13.3Vestrā autem causā mē nec ūllīus alterīus loquī, quae loquor apud vōs, vel ea fidēs sit, quod neque dum vestrīs vīribus restitistis neque dum auxilia ab Rōmānīs spērāstis pācis umquam apud vōs mentiōnem fēcī.And that what I say to you I say for your sake and nobody else's, let this at least be proof: as long as you resisted with your own strength, and as long as you hoped for help from the Romans, I never once made mention of peace to you. Liv. 21.13.4Postquam nec ab Rōmānīs vōbīs ūlla est spēs nec vestra vōs iam aut arma aut moenia satis dēfendunt, pācem adferō ad vōs magis necessāriam quam aequam.Now that you have no hope from the Romans, and neither your arms nor your walls defend you adequately any longer, I bring you a peace more necessary than fair. Liv. 21.13.5Cuius ita aliqua spēs est, sī eam, quem ad modum ut victor fert Hannibal, sīc vōs ut victī audiētis et nōn id, quod āmittitur, in damnō, cum omnia victōris sint, sed, quidquid relinquitur, prō mūnere habitūrī estis.There is some hope of it on these terms: if you will listen to it as conquered men, just as Hannibal offers it as conqueror, and if you will regard not what is lost as a loss, since everything belongs to the conqueror, but whatever is left as a gift.
Liv. 21.13.6Urbem vōbīs, quam ex magnā parte dīrutam, captam ferē tōtam habet, adimit, agrōs relinquit, locum adsignātūrus, in quō novum oppidum aedificētis.Your city, which he holds largely destroyed and almost wholly captured, he takes from you; he leaves you your fields, and will assign a place in which you may build a new town. Liv. 21.13.6Aurum et argentum omne pūblicum prīvātumque ad sē iubet dēferrī;All gold and silver, public and private, he orders to be brought to him; Liv. 21.13.7corpora vestra, coniugum ac līberōrum uestrōrum servat inviolāta, sī inermēs cum bīnīs vestīmentīs velītis ab Saguntō exīre.your persons, and those of your wives and children, he keeps unharmed, if you are willing to leave Saguntum unarmed with two garments each. Liv. 21.13.8Haec victor hostis imperat;These are the commands of a victorious enemy; Liv. 21.13.8haec, quamquam sunt gravia atque acerba, fortūna vestra vōbīs suādet.these, though they are heavy and bitter, your fortune urges upon you. Liv. 21.13.8Equidem haud dēspērō, cum omnium potestās eī facta sit, aliquid ex hīs remissūrum;For my part I do not despair that, since he has been given power over everything, he will remit something of these terms; Liv. 21.13.9sed vel haec patienda cēnseō potius, quam trucīdārī corpora vestra, rapī trahīque ante ōra vestra coniugēs ac līberōs bellī iūre sinātis."but I think you should endure even these rather than allow your persons to be slaughtered and your wives and children to be seized and dragged off before your eyes by the law of war.'