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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:33.10.1-33.10.14
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
The consul Quintus Opimius marches into Liguria, captures Aegitna to punish the perpetrators of the outrage against the Roman envoys, and subsequently defeats both the Oxybii and the Decietae, forcing them to surrender and granting much of their territory to the Massaliotes.
ὁ δὲ Κόιντος συναθροίσας τὰς δυνάμεις εἰς τὴν τῶν Πλακεντίνων πόλιν καὶ ποιησάμενος τὴν πορείαν διὰ τῶν Ἀπεννίνων ὀρῶν ἧκεν εἰς τοὺς Ὀξυβίους.
Quintus, having assembled his forces at the city of the Placentines and made his march through the Apennines, arrived in the territory of the Oxybii.
στρατοπεδεύσας δὲ παρὰ τὸν Ἄπρωνα ποταμὸν ἀνεδέχετο τοὺς πολεμίους, πυνθανόμενος1 αὐτοὺς ἁθροίζεσθαι καὶ προθύμους εἶναι πρὸς τὸ διακινδυνεύειν.
Having pitched his camp by the River Apron, he waited for the enemy, on hearing that they were gathering and were eager to risk a battle.
καὶ προσαγαγὼν τὴν στρατιὰν ὁ Κόιντος πρὸς τὴν Αἴγιτναν, ἐν ᾗ συνέβη τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς παρασπονδηθῆναι, τὴν πόλιν κατὰ κράτος ἑλὼν ἐξηνδραποδίσατο καὶ τοὺς ἀρχηγοὺς τῆς ὕβρεως ἀπέστειλε δεσμίους εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην.
And having led his army toward Aegitna, where it had happened that the envoys were treacherously attacked in violation of the treaty, Quintus took the city by storm, enslaved the inhabitants, and sent the leaders of the outrage in chains to Rome.
καὶ ταῦτα διαπραξάμενος ἀπήντα τοῖς πολεμίοις.
After accomplishing this, he went to meet the enemy.
οἱ δʼ Ὀξύβιοι νομίζοντες ἀπαραίτητον αὑτοῖς εἶναι τὴν εἰς τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς ἁμαρτίαν, παραλόγῳ τινὶ χρησάμενοι θυμῷ καὶ λαβόντες ὁρμὴν παραστατικήν, πρὶν ἢ τοὺς Δεκιήτας αὐτοῖς συμμῖξαι, περὶ τετρακισχιλίους ἁθροισθέντες ὥρμησαν ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους.
But the Oxybii, thinking that their offense against the envoys was unpardonable for them, giving way to a kind of irrational passion and seized with a desperate impulse, before the Decietae could join them, gathered to the number of about four thousand and rushed upon the enemy.
ὁ δὲ Κόιντος ἰδὼν τὴν ἔφοδον καὶ τὸ θράσος τῶν βαρβάρων τὴν μὲν ἀπόνοιαν αὐτῶν κατεπλάγη, θεωρῶν δὲ μηδενὶ λόγῳ ταύτῃ χρωμένους τοὺς ἐχθροὺς εὐθαρσὴς ἦν, ἅτε τριβὴν ἐν πράγμασιν ἔχων καὶ τῇ φύσει διαφερόντως ἀγχίνους ὑπάρχων.
Quintus, seeing the attack and the boldness of the barbarians, was struck with astonishment at their madness, but seeing that the enemy were acting with no rational plan, he was of good courage, since he was experienced in affairs and by nature exceptionally quick-witted.
διόπερ ἐξαγαγὼν τὴν αὑτοῦ στρατιὰν καὶ παρακαλέσας τὰ πρέποντα τοῖς καιροῖς ᾔει βάδην ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους.
Therefore, leading out his own army and exhorting them as the occasion required, he marched at a slow pace against the enemy.
χρησάμενος2 δὲ συντόνῳ προσβολῇ ταχέως ἐνίκησε τοὺς ἀντιταξαμένους καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν αὐτῶν ἀπέκτεινεν, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς ἠνάγκασε φυγεῖν προτροπάδην.
Engaging them with a vigorous assault, he quickly defeated those arrayed against him, killing many of them and forcing the rest to flee headlong.
οἱ δὲ Δεκιῆται συνηθροισμένοι παρῆσαν, ὡς μεθέξοντες τοῖς Ὀξυβίοις τῶν αὐτῶν κινδύνων·
The Decietae, who had assembled, arrived intending to share the same dangers with the Oxybii;
ὑστερήσαντες δὲ τῆς μάχης τούς τε φεύγοντας ἐξεδέξαντο καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγον συνέβαλον τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις μετὰ μεγάλης ὁρμῆς καὶ προθυμίας.
but being too late for the battle, they received the fugitives, and shortly afterward attacked the Romans with great force and eagerness.
ἡττηθέντες δὲ τῇ μάχῃ παραυτίκα πάντες παρέδωκαν σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ τὴν πόλιν εἰς τὴν Ῥωμαίων πίστιν.
But being defeated in the battle, they all immediately surrendered themselves and their city to the good faith of the Romans.
ὁ δὲ Κόιντος κύριος γενόμενος τούτων τῶν ἐθνῶν παραυτίκα μὲν τῆς χώρας ὅσην ἐνεδέχετο3 προσέθηκε τοῖς Μασσαλιήταις, εἰς δὲ τὸ μέλλον ὅμηρα τοὺς Λιγυστίνους ἠνάγκασε διδόναι κατά τινας τακτοὺς χρόνους τοῖς Μασσαλιήταις·
Quintus, having become master of these nations, immediately annexed as much of their territory as was possible to the Massaliotes, and for the future compelled the Ligurians to give hostages to the Massaliotes at certain fixed intervals;
αὐτὸς δὲ παροπλίσας τοὺς ἀντιταξαμένους καὶ διελὼν τὴν δύναμιν ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις αὐτοῦ τὴν παραχειμασίαν ἐποιήσατο.
while he himself, having disarmed those who had opposed him and distributed his forces among the cities there, made his winter quarters.
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ὀξεῖαν ἔλαβε καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὴν συντέλειαν. —
Thus these matters had both their beginning and their completion with great rapidity.
- 33.10.2πυνθανόμενος
The present participle πυνθανόμενος governs the accusative and infinitive clauses αὐτοὺς ἁθροίζεσθαι and [αὐτοὺς] προθύμους εἶναι. It functions as a causal participle, explaining the reason why the consul waited for the enemy.
- 33.10.8χρησάμενος
While the subject of the sentence is plural (οἱ δʼ Ὀξύβιοι) and other associated participles (νομίζοντες, λαβόντες) are also plural, χρησάμενος is uniquely singular. This is a grammatical irregularity (anacoluthon) or possibly a scribal error, though the sense remains collective.
- 33.10.12ὅσην ἐνεδέχετο
The relative pronoun ὅσην refers back to the implied partitive genitive τῆς χώρας, and is combined with the imperfect impersonal verb ἐνεδέχετο (from ἐνδέχεται, 'it is possible') to form the idiomatic expression 'as much of the territory as was possible.'