Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 30
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

44. Forty years before, in the consulship of Quintus Lutatius¹ and Aulus Manlius, peace had last been made with the Carthaginians. [2] The war which began twenty-three years later, in the consulship of Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius, was brought to an end in the seventeenth year, the consulship of Gnaeus Cornelius and Publius Aelius. [3] Later Scipio often stated, so they say, that first Tiberius Claudius' thirst for fame,² and then that of Gnaeus Cornelius had hindered him from ending that war with the destruction of Carthage.³

[4] [p. 535] At Carthage when raising money for the first⁴ payment seemed difficult to men whose resources were drained by the long war, and in the Senate House there was mourning and weeping, they say that Hannibal was seen laughing. [5] When Hasdrubal Haedus⁵ upbraided him for laughing while the people wept, he being himself the cause of their tears, he said: “If the mind within us could be seen, just as expression of face is seen by our eyes, it would readily be clear to you that this laughter which you upbraid is not that of a happy spirit but of one almost beside itself through misfortunes. [6] Nevertheless it is by no means so untimely as are those senseless, misplaced tears of yours. [7] The time for us to weep was when our arms were taken from us, our ships burned, foreign wars forbidden; for that wound was fatal to us. And you have no reason to believe that the Romans had regard for your domestic peace. No great state can long be in peace. [8] If it lacks an enemy abroad it finds one at home, just as powerful bodies seem protected against infection from without, but are of themselves weighed down by their very strength. [9] Of course we feel only so much of the public misfortunes as bears upon our private concerns, and in these nothing has so painful a sting as the loss of money. [10] Hence when the spoils were being stripped from vanquished Carthage, although you saw her placed, now unarmed and naked, in the midst of so many armed tribes of Africa, no one moaned, [p. 537]while now because tribute must be raised from private⁶ property you are mourners, as it were, at a public funeral. [11] How much I fear you will very soon be aware that today you have wept over a very slight misfortune!” So spoke Hannibal to the Carthaginians.

[12] Scipio summoned an assembly and assigning to him his father's kingdom, presented Masinissa with the city of Cirta⁷ in addition and the rest of the cities and lands which, he said, had passed from the kingdom of Syphax into the power of the Roman people. [13] He ordered Gnaeus Octavius to take the fleet to Sicily and turn it over to Gnaeus Cornelius, the consul; also the Carthaginian envoys to go to Rome, in order that all his acts on the advice of his ten legati might be confirmed by the authority of the senate and command of the people.