Scipio's Illness and the Mutiny amongst his Troops。一 SciDio was overtaken by a serious illness. which rumour. however. mace stun more serious。as each man prom the innate love of exaggeration added some fresh detail to what he had already heard. The whole of Spain, especially the remoter parts.was JL产 the news, and it was amount of trouble would have been caused by his actual death from seeing what storms arose from the groundless rumour of it. r rienmy states aia not preserve tner naenty, the army Gin not remain loval. Mancionius anti lncuDiiis naa mane up tneir minas, that arter the expulsion of the Carthaginians the sovereignty of Spain would Aass to them. When then found that their hopes were rrustratea they cauea out tnelr countrymen, the La.cetani, ana raised a force amongst the Celtiberians with which they ravaged the country of the Suessitanians and the Sedetanians, who were ，Pipe of R nmp A disturbance of a different kind, an act of madness on the part of the Romans themselves, occurred in the camp at Sucro. It was held by a force of 8ooo men who were stationed there to protect the tribes on this side the Ebro. The vague rumours auouz zneir commanaer s pie were not nowever the primary cause of their movement. A long period of inactivity had，as usual.demoralised them, and they chafed against the restraints “曰“分JL，认.‘二‘.昌一“甘U林.“州“‘，一‘，.占‘，7，“一‘、分一匕~“‘M甘.“，.~材.舀一“‘一 of peace after being accustomed to live on the plunder captured from the enemy. At first their discontent was confined to murmurs amongst themselves. “If there is war going on in the province," they said,“what are we doing here amongst a peaceable population? If the war is at an end why are we not taken back to Rome ?”Then they demanded their arrears ofPaywith an insolence quite inconsistent with military discipline or the respect which soldiers should show towards their officers. The men at the outposts insulted the tribunes as they went their rounds of inspection, and some went off during the night to plunder the peaceable inhabitants in the neighbourhood, till at last they used to quit their standards in broad daylight without leave. They did everything just as their caprice and fancy dictated, no attention was paid to rules or discipline or to the orders of their officers. One thing alone helped to keep up the outward aspect of a Roman camp and that was the hope which the men entertained that the tribunes would become infected with their madness and take part in their mutiny. In this hope they allowed them to administer from their tribunals, they went to them for the watchword and the orders of the day, and relieved guard at the proper intervals. Thus after depriving them of any real authority they kept up the appearance of obedience whilst they were actually their own commanders. When they found that the tribunes censured and reprobated their proceedings and endeavoured to repress them, and openly declared that they would have nothing to do with their insensate folly, they broke out into open mutiny. They drove the tribunes from their official seats, and then out of the camp, and amidst universal acclamation placed the supreme command in the hands of the chief· nngleaders of the mutiny,. two common soldiers whose names were C. Albius of Cales and C. Atrius, an Umbrian.9 These men were by no means content to wear the insignia of the militarv tribunes. 。了，，二，，。，二，。。，.，‘，，。r‘ meVnaa the auaacitVto anect tnose oi the cniei magistrates. .口.V， the fasces and the axes. It never occurred to them that those symbols which they had carried， before them_to strike fear into others were impending over their own DacKs and necks. The false belief that Scipio was dead blinded them ;they felt certain that the spread of this report would kindle the flames of war throughout the whole of Spain. In the general turmoil they imagined that they would be able to levy contributions on the allies of Rome and plunder the cities round them, and when crime and outrage were being committed everywhere, what they had done would not be noticed in the universal confusion.