Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

When the Carthaginians had been utterly overthrown, they sent envoys to him to negotiate a treaty of peace, but he ordered those who had come to go away at once, refusing to listen to them before

Terentius marched behind him in the triumphal procession, wearing a felt cap just like an emancipated slave. [*](Cf. Livy, xxx. 45; Valerius Maximus, v. 2. 5.)And when Scipio died, Terentius provided wine with honey for all who attended the funeral to drink their fill, and did everything else connected with his burial on a grand scale. But this, of course, was later. [*](Cf. Livy, xxxviii. 55.)

Antiochus the king, [*](Antiochus the Great.) after the Romans had crossed over to attack him, [*](In 190 B.C.) sent to Scipio to ask about terms of peace. This should have been done before, said Scipio, but not now, when you have taken the bit and the rider is in the saddle. [*](Cf. Polybius, xxi. 15; Livy, xxxvii. 36; Appian, Roman History, the Syrian Wars, vi. 29.)

The Senate voted that he should receive a sum of money from the treasury, but the treasurers were not willing to open it on that day; whereupon he said that he would open it himself, for the reason it was kept closed, he declared, was because he had fdled it with so much money. [*](Cf. Polybius, xxxiii. 14; and Valerius Maximus, iii. 7. 1.)

When Petillius and Quintus brought before the people many accusations against him, he remarked that on this very day he had conquered the Carthaginians and Hannibal, and he said that he himself, with a garland on, was on his way up to the Capitol to offer sacrifice, and he bade anyone who so