Abstract
The project aims to the full and direct translation (from Latin to Portuguese) of the first book (694 verses) of Silius Italicus' (c. 26-102 AD) epic poem "Punica" ("The Punic Wars"), from the Latin text edited by L. Bauer (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890), used by J.D. Duff in his translation to the Loeb Classical Library series (Harvard University Press, 1961). Besides the translation, an introd…