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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
The senate, seeing that both the envoys and Marcellus are leaning towards peace, decides to continue the war after considering the allies' reports. Distrusting Marcellus, they appoint new consuls and begin large-scale preparations to settle the Iberian campaign.
οἱ δʼ ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ διακούσαντες ἀμφοτέρων εἰσήγαγον τοὺς παρὰ τοῦ Μαρκέλλου πρέσβεις.
Those in the senate, after hearing both sides, introduced the envoys from Marcellus.
θεωροῦντες δὲ καὶ τούτους ῥέποντας ἐπὶ τὴν διάλυσιν καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν προσνέμοντα τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην1 τοῖς πολεμίοις μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς συμμάχοις, τοῖς μὲν Ἀραυάκαις ἔδωκαν καὶ τοῖς συμμάχοις ἀπόκρισιν ὅτι Μάρκελλος ἀμφοτέροις ἐν Ἰβηρίᾳ διασαφήσει τὴν τῆς συγκλήτου γνώμην, αὐτοὶ δὲ νομίσαντες τοὺς συμμάχους ἀληθῆ καὶ συμφέροντα σφίσι λέγειν, τοὺς δʼ Ἀραυάκας ἀκμὴν μεγαλοφρονεῖν, τὸν δὲ στρατηγὸν ἀποδειλιᾶν τὸν πόλεμον, ἐντολὰς ἔδωκαν διʼ ἀπορρήτων τοῖς παρʼ ἐκείνου πρεσβευταῖς πολεμεῖν γενναίως καὶ τῆς πατρίδος ἀξίως.
Seeing that these too were leaning toward a settlement, and that the commander was inclining his own opinion toward the enemy rather than toward the allies, they gave an answer to both the Aravacae and the allies that Marcellus would make known the decision of the senate to both parties in Iberia; but they themselves, believing that the allies were speaking the truth and what was advantageous to them, while the Aravacae were still high-spirited and the commander was shrinking from the war, gave secret instructions to the envoys from him to wage war bravely and in a manner worthy of their country.
ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὸν πόλεμον ἐποίησαν κατάμονον,2 πρῶτον μὲν τῷ Μαρκέλλῳ διαπιστήσαντες ἕτερον στρατηγὸν ἔμελλον διαπέμπειν εἰς τὴν Ἰβηρίαν·
When they had made the war decided upon, first of all, distrusting Marcellus, they were about to dispatch another commander to Iberia;
ἤδη γὰρ ἔτυχον ὕπατοι τότε καθεσταμένοι καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς παρειληφότες Αὖλος Ποστόμιος καὶ Λεύκιος Λικίννιος Λεύκολλος.
for by that time Aulus Postumius and Lucius Licinius Lucullus had already been appointed consuls and had entered upon their office.
ἔπειτα περὶ τὰς παρασκευὰς ἐγίνοντο φιλοτίμως καὶ μεγαλομερῶς, νομίζοντες διὰ ταύτης τῆς πράξεως κριθήσεσθαι τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἰβηρίαν·
Next, they set about their preparations with zeal and on a grand scale, believing that the situation in Iberia would be decided by this action;
κρατηθέντων μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν πάντας ὑπέλαβον σφίσι ποιήσειν τὸ προσταττόμενον, ἀποστρεψαμένων δὲ3 τὸν ἐνεστῶτα φόβον οὐ μόνον Ἀραυάκας καταθαρρήσειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας.
for they supposed that if the enemy were conquered, all would do what was commanded of them, but if they shook off the impending fear, not only the Aravacae but all the others as well would become bold.
- 35.3.2προσνέμοντα τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην
A participle in the accusative case functioning as the complement of the verb of perception, θεωροῦντες, with τὸν στρατηγὸν as its logical subject: 'seeing that the commander was inclining...'.
- 35.3.6κατάμονον
The adjective κατάμονος (lasting, remaining) is used here in the predicate position with ἐποίησαν ('they made the war lasting'), meaning that they decided to continue the war rather than ending it through a compromise.
- 35.3.9κρατηθέντων μὲν ... ἀποστρεψαμένων δέ
Two contrasting genitive absolute constructions. The first, κρατηθέντων, is passive in meaning ('if the enemy were conquered'), while the second, ἀποστρεψαμένων, is middle in voice and has an active meaning ('if they shook off [the fear]'). The logical subject for both is τῶν ἐχθρῶν.