What else would you ask if you had been conquered?
I have captured two of the enemy's camps, full, of course, of booty and provisions; supply me with corn and money.

What else would you ask had you been plundered and stripped of your camp?
And that I may not be the only person perplexed, I could wish that either Himilco or Mago would answer me, for it is just and fair that I also should put a question, since I have answered Himilco.

Since the battle at Cannae annihilated the Roman power, and it is a fact that all Italy is in a state of revolt; in the first place, has any one people of the Latin confederacy come over to us?
In the next place, has any individual of the five and thirty tribes deserted to Hannibal ?" When Mago had answered both these questions in the negative, he continued: "there remains then still too large a body of the enemy.

But I should be glad to know what degree of spirit and hope that body possesses." 13.

Mago declaring that he did not know; "Nothing," said he, "is easier to be known.