Nepos 2
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He said " My father , Hamilcar , with me being a young boy , not having been born older than 9 years , setting out as the commander into Spain from Carthage , sacrificed offerings to Jupiter the Best and Greatest . While this divine thing was being done , he asked me if I wanted to proceed into the military camps with him . When I had accepted this gladly and began to ask from him that he not doubt to lead me , then he said " I will do it , if you give the oath , which I ask , to me . " At the same time , he led me to the altar , on which he had set up the sacrifice , and ordered me holding it , with all the others having been removed , to swear that I would never be in friendship with Rome . I preserved the sworn oath having been given to my father up until this age .
'
Pater
meus
'
inquit
'
Hamilcar
,
puerulo
me
,
utpote
non
amplius
VIIII
annos
nato
,
in
Hispaniam
imperator
proficiscens
Carthagine
,
Iovi
optimo
maximo
hostias
immolavit
.
Quae
divina
res
dum
conficiebatur
,
quaesivit
a
me
,
vellemne
secum
in
castra
proficisci
.
Id
cum
libenter
accepissem
atque
ab
eo
petere
coepissem
,
ne
dubitaret
ducere
,
tum
ille
'
Faciam
'
,
inquit
'
si
mihi
fidem
,
quam
postulo
,
dederis
.
'
Simul
me
ad
aram
adduxit
,
apud
quam
sacrificare
instituerat
,
eamque
ceteris
remotis
tenentem
iurare
iussit
numquam
me
in
amicitia
cum
Romanis
fore
.
Id
ego
ius
iurandum
patri
datum
usque
ad
hanc
aetatem
conservavi
.