Texte grec :
| [17,2] Οἱ δὲ Σαυνῖται τῶν πρέσβεων ἀκούσαντες
ἠγανάκτουν τε καὶ ἀπελογοῦντο πρῶτον μὲν
οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτῳ πεποιῆσθαι λέγοντες τὰς περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης ὁμολογίας, ἐπὶ τῷ μηδένα μήτε φίλον ἴδιον
ἡγήσασθαι μήτ´ ἐχθρόν, ἐὰν μὴ Ῥωμαῖοι κελεύωσιν·
ἔπειθ´ ὅτι Λευκανοὺς οὐ πρότερον ἐποιήσαντο Ῥωμαῖοι
φίλους, ἀλλ´ ἔναγχος πολεμίους ἤδη σφῶν ὄντας, πρόφασιν οὔτε δικαίαν οὔτ´ εὐσχήμονα κατασκευαζόμενοι
τοῦ καταλῦσαι τὰς σπονδάς. ἀποκρινομένων δὲ τῶν
Ῥωμαίων, ὅτι τοὺς ὑπηκόους ὁμολογήσαντας ἕπεσθαι
καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ τῷ δικαίῳ καταλυσαμένους τὸν πόλεμον
ἅπαντα πείθεσθαι δεῖ τοῖς παρειληφόσι τὴν ἀρχήν,
καί, εἰ μὴ ποιήσουσι τὰ κελευόμενα ἑκόντες, πολεμήσειν
αὐτοῖς ἀπειλούντων, ἀφόρητον ἡγησάμενοι τὴν
αὐθάδειαν τῆς πόλεως οἱ Σαυνῖται τοὺς μὲν πρέσβεις
ἐκέλευσαν ἀπαλλάττεσθαι παραχρῆμα, αὐτοὶ δὲ τὰ πρὸς
τὸν πόλεμον ἐψηφίσαντο κοινῇ τε καὶ κατὰ πόλεις
εὐτρεπίζεσθαι.
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Traduction française :
| [17,2] (16.13) The Samnites, having listened to the ambassadors, were indignant and
declared in their own defence, first of all, that they had not made the peace on the
understanding that they were to count no one as their friend or enemy unless the
Romans should bid them to do so; and again, that the Romans had not previously
made the Lucanians their friends, but only just now, when they were already enemies
of the Samnites, thereby trumping up an excuse that was neither just nor seemly for
setting aside the treaty. 2 When the Romans answered that subjects who had agreed
to follow them and had obtained a termination of the war on that condition must
obey all orders of those who had assumed the rule over them, and threatened to make
war upon (p333) them if they did not voluntarily do as they were ordered, 3 the
Samnites, regarding the arrogance of Rome as intolerable, ordered the ambassadors
to depart at once, while, as for themselves, they voted to make the necessary
preparations for war both jointly and each city for itself.
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