Bello Antiochino magno et gravi, cum L. Scipioni provincia Asia obvenisset, parumque in eo putaretur esse animi, parum roboris, senatusque ad collegam eius, C. Laelium, illius Sapientis patrem, negotium deferret, surrexit P. Africanus, frater maior L. Scipionis, et illam ignominiam a familia deprecatus est, dixitque et in fratre suo summam virtutem esse summumque consilium neque se ei legatum, id aetatis eisque rebus gestis, defuturum.
In the war against Antiochus, a serious war on a large scale, when the province of Asia had fallen to Lucius Scipio, who was considered to lack spirit and strength for the job, and the senate therefore was about to transfer the task to his colleague, Gaius Laelius, the father of the famous Laelius the Wise, Lucius Scipios elder brother, Publius Africanus, rose and asked for such a slight not to be put upon the family; and he said that his brother was a man of first-rate courage and judgment and that he himself, for all his seniority and past record, would not refuse to accompany him as a legate.
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