Liv. 22.37.1Per eōsdem diēs ab Hierōne classis Ōstia cum magnō commeātū accessit.During the same days a fleet from Hiero put in at Ostia with a large cargo of supplies. Liv. 22.37.2Lēgātī in senātum intrōductī nūntiārunt caedem C. Flāminī cōnsulis exercitūsque allātam adeō aegrē tulisse rēgem Hierōnem, ut nūllā suā propriā regnīque suī clāde movērī magis potuerit.His envoys, brought into the senate, announced that King Hiero had been so grieved at the news of the slaughter of the consul Gaius Flaminius and his army that no disaster of his own or of his kingdom could have moved him more. Liv. 22.37.3Itaque, quamquam probē sciat magnitūdinem populī Rōmānī admīrābiliōrem prope adversīs rēbus quam secundīs esse, tamen omnia, quibus ā bonīs fidēlibusque sociīs bella iuvārī soleant, mīsisse;Therefore, though he well knew that the greatness of the Roman people was almost more admirable in adversity than in prosperity, he had nevertheless sent everything with which wars were usually aided by good and loyal allies; Liv. 22.37.4quae nē accipere abnuant, magnō opere sē patrēs cōnscrīptōs ōrāre.and he earnestly begged the conscript fathers not to refuse to accept these things.
Liv. 22.37.5Iam omnium prīmum ōminis causā Victōriam auream pondō ducentum ac vīgintī adferre sēsē: acciperent eam tenērentque et habērent propriam et perpetuam.First of all, for the sake of the omen, they were bringing a golden Victory weighing two hundred and twenty pounds: let them accept it, keep it and hold it as their own for ever. Liv. 22.37.6Advēxisse etiam trecenta mīlia modium trīticī, ducenta hordeī, nē commeātūs dēessent, et quantum praetereā opus esset, quō iussissent, subvectūrōs.They had also brought three hundred thousand pecks of wheat and two hundred thousand of barley, so that supplies should not run short, and whatever more was needed they would convey wherever they were ordered. Liv. 22.37.7Mīlite atque equite scīre nisi Rōmānō Latīnīque nōminis nōn ūtī populum Rōmānum;He knew that the Roman people used no infantry or cavalry except Romans and men of Latin status; Liv. 22.37.7levium armōrum auxilia etiam externa vīdisse in castrīs Rōmānīs: itaque mīsisse mīlle sagittāriōrum ac funditōrum, aptam manum adversus Baliārēs ac Maurōs pugnācēsque aliās missilī tēlō gentēs.but he had seen light-armed auxiliaries, even foreign ones, in Roman camps: so he had sent a thousand archers and slingers, a force well suited against the Balearians and Moors and other peoples who fight with missiles.
Liv. 22.37.9Ad ea dōna cōnsilium quoque addēbant, ut praetor, cui prōvincia Sicilia ēvēnisset, classem in Āfricam trāiceret, ut et hostēs in terrā suā bellum habērent minusque laxāmentī darētur iīs ad auxilia Hannibalī summittenda.To these gifts they also added advice, that the praetor to whom the province of Sicily had fallen should take a fleet across to Africa, so that the enemy too might have war in their own land and be given less freedom to send reinforcements to Hannibal. Liv. 22.37.10Ab senātū ita respōnsum rēgis lēgātīs est, virum bonum ēgregiumque socium Hierōnem esse atque ūnō tenōre, ex quō in amīcitiam populī Rōmānī vēnerit, fidem coluisse ac rem Rōmānam omnī tempore ac locō mūnificē adiūvisse.The senate replied to the king's envoys that Hiero was a good man and an outstanding ally, and that in one unbroken course, ever since he had entered into the friendship of the Roman people, he had kept faith and generously aided the Roman cause at every time and place. Liv. 22.37.10Id perinde ac dēbēret grātum populō Rōmānō esse.This was as welcome to the Roman people as it ought to be.
Liv. 22.37.11Aurum et ā cīvitātibus quibusdam allātum grātiā reī acceptā nōn accēpisse populum Rōmānum;Gold had also been brought by certain states, but the Roman people, while grateful for the gesture, had not accepted it; Liv. 22.37.12victōriam ōmenque accipere sēdemque eī sē dīvae dare dicāre Capitōlium, templum Iouis optimī maximī.the Victory and the omen they accepted, and they gave and dedicated to the goddess as her seat the Capitol, the temple of Jupiter Best and Greatest. Liv. 22.37.12In eā arce urbis Rōmānae sacrātam volentem propitiamque, firmam ac stabilem fore populō Rōmānō.Consecrated in that citadel of the city of Rome, she would be willing and propitious, firm and steadfast for the Roman people. Liv. 22.37.13Funditōrēs sagittāriīque et frūmentum trāditum cōnsulibus.The slingers and archers and the grain were handed over to the consuls. Liv. 22.37.13Quīnquerēmēs ad * nāvium classem, quae cum T. Otaciliō prōpraetōre in Siciliā erat, quīnque et vīgintī additae, permissumque est, ut, sī ē rē pūblicā cēnsēret esse, in Āfricam trāiceret.Twenty-five quinqueremes were added to the fleet of * ships which was in Sicily with Titus Otacilius the propraetor, and he was permitted to cross to Africa if he judged it to be in the interest of the state.