- Source
- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:36.5.1-36.5.9
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Mago speaks in Carthage, arguing that once they surrendered, they had to accept whatever was commanded, leading the citizens to resolve and execute the dispatch of three hundred hostages to Lilybaeum, who are then sent to Rome.
ἐν δὲ τῷ καιρῷ τούτῳ φασὶ Μάγωνα τὸν Βρέττιον χρήσασθαι λόγοις ἀνδρώδεσι καὶ πραγματικοῖς.
At this juncture, they say that Mago the Bruttian used manly and practical words.
δύο γάρ, ὡς ἔοικε, καιροὺς ἔφασκεν εἶναι τοῦ βουλεύσασθαι περὶ σφῶν καὶ τῆς πατρίδος, ὧν τὸν μὲν ἕνα παρεῖσθαι.1
For he declared, as it seems, that there had been two opportunities for deliberating about themselves and their country, of which the one had been let slip.
δεῖν γὰρ οὐ μὰ Δία νῦν διαπορεῖν τί διὰ τῶν ὑπάτων αὐτοῖς παραγγελθήσεται, καὶ διὰ τί περὶ πόλεως οὐδεμίαν ἐποιήσατο μνείαν ἡ σύγκλητος, ἀλλὰ καθʼ ὃν καιρὸν ἐδίδοσαν τὴν ἐπιτροπήν·
For, by Zeus, they ought not to be wondering now what would be commanded them by the consuls, and why the Senate had made no mention of the city, but at the time when they were surrendering their power of decision.
δόντας2 δὲ σαφῶς γινώσκειν διότι πᾶν τὸ παραγγελλόμενον ἐπιδεκτέον ἐστίν, ἐὰν μὴ τελέως ὑπερήφανον ᾖ καὶ παρὰ τὴν προσδοκίαν·
Having surrendered, they should clearly understand that every command must be accepted, unless it should be utterly arrogant and beyond all expectation;
εἰ δὲ μή, τότε πάλιν βουλεύεσθαι πότερα δεῖ προσδέχεσθαι τὸν πόλεμον εἰς τὴν χώραν καὶ πάσχειν ὅ, τι ποτʼ ἂν οὗτος ἐπιφέρῃ τῶν δεινῶν, ἢ κατορρωδήσαντας τὴν τῶν πολεμίων ἔφοδον ἐθελοντὴν ἀναδέχεσθαι πᾶν τὸ προσταττόμενον.
otherwise, they must then deliberate anew whether they ought to welcome war into their territory and suffer whatever horrors it might bring, or, dreading the attack of the enemy, voluntarily submit to everything prescribed.
πάντων δὲ διὰ τὸν ἐφεστῶτα πόλεμον καὶ διὰ τὸ τῆς προσδοκίας ἄδηλον φερομένων ἐπὶ τὸ πειθαρχεῖν τοῖς παραγγελλομένοις, ἔδοξεν πέμπειν τοὺς ὁμήρους εἰς τὸ Λιλύβαιον.
But since, owing to the impending war and the uncertainty of what was to be expected, everyone inclined toward obeying the commands, it was resolved to send the hostages to Lilybaeum.
καὶ παραυτίκα καταλέξαντες τριακοσίους τῶν νέων ἐξέπεμπον μετὰ μεγάλης οἰμωγῆς καὶ δακρύων, ἅτε προπεμπόντων ἕκαστον τῶν ἀναγκαίων καὶ συγγενῶν, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν γυναικῶν ἐκκαουσῶν3 τὴν τοιαύτην διάθεσιν.
And immediately selecting three hundred of the young men, they sent them off with great lamentation and tears, inasmuch as their relatives and kinsmen were seeing each of them off, and the women especially were inflaming this emotional state.
ἐπεὶ δὲ κατέπλευσαν εἰς τὸ Λιλύβαιον, οἱ μὲν ἐξ αὐτῆς παρεδόθησαν διὰ τῶν ὑπάτων Κοΐντῳ Φαβίῳ Μαξίμῳ — συνέβαινε γὰρ τοῦτον ἐπὶ τῆς Σικελίας τετάχθαι στρατηγὸν τότε —
When they had sailed to Lilybaeum, they were immediately delivered by the consuls to Quintus Fabius Maximus—for it happened that he was appointed general over Sicily at that time—
διʼ οὗ παρακομισθέντες ἀσφαλῶς εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην συνεκλείσθησαν ὁμοῦ πάντες εἰς τὸ τῆς ἑκκαιδεκήρους νεώριον
by whom they were safely conveyed to Rome and were all shut up together in the dockyard of the sixteen-banked ship.
- 36.5.2ὧν τὸν μὲν ἕνα παρεῖσθαι
The relative pronoun ὧν refers to the antecedent δύο καιρούς, and παρεῖσθαι (perfect passive infinitive of παρίημι) functions in the accusative with infinitive construction governed by the indirect discourse verb ἔφασκεν, with τὸν μὲν ἕνα as its subject.
- 36.5.4δόντας
The masculine accusative plural of the aorist active participle of δίδωμι. It refers back to the surrender of the ἐπιτροπή, and is in the accusative to agree with the unexpressed subject of the infinitive γινώσκειν (referring to the Carthaginians themselves), forming part of the accusative with infinitive construction governed by δεῖν in the preceding sentence.
- 36.5.7ἅτε προπεμπόντων... ἐκκαουσῶν
A genitive absolute construction introduced by the causal particle ἅτε. The two nouns τῶν ἀναγκαίων καὶ συγγενῶν ('relatives and kinsmen') and τῶν γυναικῶν ('the women') act as the subjects of the participles προπεμπόντων and ἐκκαουσῶν respectively, both in the genitive case.