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Headword: Asdroubas
Adler number: alpha,4134
Translated headword: Hasdrubal
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
General of the Carthaginians. When in the course of the war this man was doing badly in the attack on Megara,[1] he brought all his Roman prisoners-of-war to the wall, whence it would be obvious to the Romans what was being done, and he pulled out the eyes or tongues or sinews or genitals of some with iron hooks, and of others he cut away the soles of their feet and chopped off their fingers, or he flayed the skin off the rest of the body and threw them headlong still breathing off the wall -- contriving against the Romans things which were unacceptable to the Carthaginians. And thus he incited them to make their safety depend upon battle alone, but for him it turned out opposite from how he had planned. For the Carthaginians were made very fearful instead of eager by someone who knew about these lawless deeds, and they began to hate Hasdrubal since he had destroyed their forbearance; and the council especially cried out against him as someone who had done brutal and arrogant things in the extremity of his own misfortunes. So he killed some of the councillors and, in respect of everything which already made him fearful, came to behave more like a tyrant than a general -- seeing his sole security as lying in being frightening to them and thus hard to attack.
Search concerning this man in [the entry about] Hannibal.[2]
Greek Original:
Asdroubas, Karchêdonios stratêgos. houtos kata tên tou polemou sumbolên chalepôs echôn tês epi ta Megara epicheirêseôs, hosa Rhômaiôn eichen aichmalôta epi to teichos agagôn, hothen eusunopta Rhômaiois emelle ta drômena esesthai, tôn men ophthalmous ê glôttas ê neura ê aidoia sidêriois exeilke kampulois, tôn de hupetemne ta pelmata kai daktulous exekopten, ê to derma tou loipou sômatos apespa, kai pantas empnous eti katekrêmnizen, adiallakta Karchêdoniois ta es Rhômaious epinoôn. kai ho men autous houtôs êrethize tên sôtêrian echein en monêi têi machê, periestê d' autôi es to enantion hôn epenoei. hupo gar tou suneidotos hoi Karchêdonioi tônde tôn athemistôn ergôn perideeis anti prothumôn egignonto, kai ton Asdrouban hôs tên sungnômên sphôn aphêirêmenon emisoun: kai malisth' hê boulê autou kateboa hôs ôma kai huperêphana dedrakotos en sumphorais oikeiais tosaisde. ho de tôn bouleutôn tinas ekteine kai es panta ôn êdê perideês es turannida mallon ê stratêgian periêlthen, hôs en tôide monôi to asphales hexôn, ei phoberos autois eiê kai dia touto dusepicheirêtos. zêtei peri toutou en tôi Annibas.
Notes:
See generally OCD(4) p.647, under 'Hasdrubal(4)', and already alpha 4133. The material of the present entry comes from Appian, Punica 118 (= Libyca 561-2).
[1] Not the Greek or Sicilian cities of that name, but a suburb of Carthage.
[2] alpha 2452.
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 December 2001@16:03:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; cosmetics) on 13 December 2001@09:09:21.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 24 April 2012@06:12:30.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 31 July 2014@04:17:24.
David Whitehead on 1 September 2015@05:02:29.

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