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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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Incited by the fabricated letters of Hippocrates, the Syracusan populace revolts and, overcoming the resistance of the praetors, opens the gates of Hexapylum to the army. Achradina is captured, the praetors are killed, and Syracuse falls back under their tyrannical control.
huic non apud volgum modo fides fuit, sed senatum quoque in curiam introductus movit. haud vani quidam homines palam ferre perbene detectam in Leontinis esse avaritiam et crudelitatem Romanorum. eadem, si intrassent Syracusas, aut foediora etiam, quo maius ibi avaritiae praemium esset, facturos fuisse.1
This man not only found belief among the crowd, but also, having been introduced into the senate house, moved the senate. Certain men by no means untrustworthy openly declared that the covetousness and cruelty of the Romans had been very well exposed in Leontini. They asserted that, if they had entered Syracuse, they would have done the same or even more foul things, inasmuch as the reward of covetousness was greater there.
itaque claudendas cuncti portas et custodiendam urbem censere. sed non ab iisdem omnis timere nec eosdem odisse,2 ad militare genus omne partemque magnam plebis invisum esse nomen Romanum;
And so everyone proposed that the gates should be closed and the city guarded. But not all feared the same people, nor hated the same people; to the entire military class and a great part of the common people, the Roman name was hateful;
praetores optimatiumque pauci, quamquam inflati vano nuntio erant, tamen ad propius praesentiusque malum cautiores esse.
the praetors and a few of the nobles, although they were stirred up by the false message, were nevertheless more cautious against a nearer and more present evil.
et iam ad Hexapylum erant Hippocrates atque Epicydes, serebanturque conloquia per propinquos popularium, qui in exercitu erant, ut portas aperirent sinerentque communem patriam defendi ab impetu Romanorum.
And now Hippocrates and Epicydes were at Hexapylum, and conversations were being held through the relatives of the citizens who were in the army, urging them to open the gates and allow their common fatherland to be defended from the attack of the Romans.
iam unis foribus Hexapyli apertis coepti erant recipi, cum praetores intervenerunt. et primo imperio minisque, deinde auctoritate deterrendo, postremo, ut omnia vana erant, obliti maiestatis precibus agebant, ne proderent patriam tyranni ante satellitibus et tum corruptoribus3 exercitus.
Already, one gate of Hexapylum having been opened, they had begun to be received, when the praetors intervened. And at first with command and threats, then by deterring with their authority, and finally, since all things were in vain, forgetting their dignity, they pleaded with prayers that they should not betray their country to those who were formerly the henchmen of the tyrant and then the corrupters of the army.
sed surdae ad ea omnia aures concitatae multitudinis erant, nec minore intus vi quam foris portae effringebantur, effractisque omnibus toto Hexapylo agmen receptum est.
But the ears of the excited crowd were deaf to all those things, and the gates were being broken open from within with no less force than from without, and, all of them having been broken open, the column was admitted through the whole of Hexapylum.
praetores in Achradinam cum iuventute popularium confugiunt. mercennarii milites perfugaeque et quidquid regiorum militum Syracusis erat agmen hostium augent.
The praetors fled into Achradina with the youth of the citizens. The mercenary soldiers, the deserters, and whatever of the king’s soldiers were in Syracuse increased the column of the enemy.
ita Achradina quoque primo impetu capitur, praetorumque nisi qui inter tumultum effugerunt omnes interficiuntur.
Thus Achradina also was captured at the first assault, and all of the praetors, except those who escaped during the tumult, were killed.
nox caedibus finem fecit. postero die servi ad pilleum vocati et carcere vincti emissi, confusaque haec omnis multitudo Hippocraten atque Epicyden creant praetores; Syracusaeque, cum breve tempus libertas adfulsisset, in antiquam servitutem reciderant.
Night put an end to the slaughter. On the following day, the slaves were called to the pilleus and those bound in prison were released, and this entire mixed crowd created Hippocrates and Epicydes as praetors; and Syracuse, although liberty had shone upon it for a brief time, had fallen back into its ancient servitude.
- 24.32.1facturos fuisse
An infinitive construction representing the apodosis of a past contrary-to-fact condition in indirect discourse. In direct discourse, this would be expressed by fecissent (or facturi fuerunt). Because it is dependent on the indirect discourse introduced by palam ferre (historical infinitive), it takes the form of the future active participle in the accusative (facturos, with the subject Romanos omitted) combined with fuisse.
- 24.32.2omnis ... timere nec eosdem odisse
The word omnis is an archaic spelling for omnes (nominative plural masculine), serving as the subject of the historical infinitives timere and odisse. The clause means 'not everyone feared the same people, nor hated the same people.' While it is grammatically possible to treat omnis as an accusative plural and the infinitives as indirect discourse, it is far more natural in this context to interpret them as historical infinitives forming independent clauses.
- 24.32.5tyranni ante satellitibus et tum corruptoribus
A dative noun phrase serving as the indirect object of the verb proderent (to betray/hand over). tyranni is a genitive singular (referring to the late tyrant Hieronymus) modifying satellitibus, meaning 'to those who were formerly the henchmen of the tyrant and are now the corrupters of the army' (referring to Hippocrates and Epicydes). The praetors are pleading with the crowd not to betray their country to these two men.