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LIBER VII · CAPUT 9

OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF THE WOMB

OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF THE WOMB. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF THE WOMB · EDITORIAL PLATE VII.9 · modern editorial plate
OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF THE WOMB. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Auspicatius enecta parente gignuntur, sicut Scipio Africanus prior natus primusque Caesarum a caeso matris utero dictus, qua de causa et Caesones appellati. simili modo natus et Manilius, qui Carthaginem cum exercitu intravit.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Those children, whose birth has cost the mother her life, are evidently born under more favourable auspices; for such was the case with the first Scipio Africanus; the first, too, of the Cæsars was so named, from his having been removed by an incision in his mother’s womb. For a similar reason, too, the Cæsones were called by that name. Manilius, also, who entered Carthage with his army, was born in a similar manner.