1. Ex Cretā Hannibal ad Prūsiam in Bīthȳniam vēnit; quem cum vidēret nōn satis rōbustum [< rōbur] esse, conciliābat eī aliōs rēgēs; sed Eumenēs, rēx Pergamēnus, ab eō dissidēbat [= dissentiēbat].
2. Cum eō bellum erat et marī et terrā, sed utrobīque [= utrōque locō] Eumenēs superior erat.
3. Hannibal vērō classem Pergamēnam cōnsiliō [= prūdentiā] sīc vīcit:
4. Plūrimās serpentēs [= anguēs] venēnātās [< venēnum] in vāsa fictilia [= ē terrā coctā facta] coniēcit.
5. Ante proelium cohortātiōnem [< cohortārī] classiāriōrum [= mīlitum nāvālium] fēcit iīsque praecēpit ut omnēs nāvem rēgis peterent.
6. In proeliō, cum Bīthȳniī ex praeceptō [< praecipere] Hannibalis nāvem Eumenis pepulissent, vāsa fictilia in reliquās nāvēs coniēcērunt.
7. Pergamēnī, cum nāvēs suās serpentibus opplētās vidērent, ad castra sua nautica [< nauta] fūgērunt.
8. Nec tum modo, sed saepe aliās [= aliō tempore] Hannibal hostēs vīcit.
9. Rōmae ūsū vēnit [= accidit] ut ūnus ē lēgātīs Prūsiae inter cēnam dīceret 'Hannibalem in rēgnō Prūsiae esse'.
10. Quod cum patrēs cōnscrīptī [: senātōrēs] comperissent, lēgātōs eō mīsērunt, quī eum exposcerent.
11. Hannibal, cum plūrēs praeter cōnsuētūdinem [< cōnsuēscere] armātī appārērent, intellēxit id nōn fortuītō [= forte] fierī, sed sē petī.
12. Ergō, nē vītam aliēnō arbitriō [< arbiter] āmitteret, venēnum sūmpsit, quod semper sēcum habēre cōnsuēverat/cōnsuērat [= solēbat]..
13. Sīc vir fortissimus, memor prīstinārum [= antīquārum] virtūtum, acquiēvit [ad + quiēvit] annō LXX.
14. Vir tantīs bellīs districtus [= occupātus] etiam nōnnihil [= haud paulum] temporis litterīs tribuit atque aliquot librōs Graecē cōnscrīpsit, cum Sōsilō litterārum Graecārum doctōre [= magistrō] ūterētur.
15. Nēmō Hannibalī metum quem ex populō Rōmānō concēperat [= in animum accēperat] eximere [= adimere] poterat.
16. Hannibal Alexandrum māximum imperātōrem fuisse dūcēbat [= exīstimābat], quod parvā manū exercitūs innumerābilēs [< in- + numerāre] fūdisset atque ultimās ōrās peragrāvisset [= pererrāvisset].
17. Pyrrhus castra mētārī [= rēctē locāre] prīmus docuit.
18. Dīdō rēgīna in epulārum apparātū ēlegāns [= decēns] fuit.