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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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Consul Laevinus reports on his military successes against King Philip in Greece and Macedonia, after which the senate decrees the allocation of provinces for the consuls, military command structures, and the prorogation of powers.
ibi Laevinus, quo statu Macedonia et Graecia, Aetoli, Acarnanes Locrique essent, quasque ibi res ipse egisset terra marique, exposuit:
There Laevinus explained what the state of affairs was in Macedonia and Greece, and among the Aetolians, Acarnanians, and Locrians, and what transactions he himself had performed there by land and sea:
Philippum, inferentem bellum Aetolis, in Macedoniam retro ab se conpulsum ad intima penitus regni abisse,1 legionemque inde deduci posse; classem satis esse ad arcendum Italia regem. haec de se deque provincia,2 cui praefuerat, consul.
that Philip, who was bringing war upon the Aetolians, had been forced back by him into Macedonia and had retired deep into the interior of his kingdom, and that a legion could be withdrawn from there; and that the fleet was sufficient to keep the king away from Italy. This the consul reported concerning himself and the province which he had governed.
tum de provinciis communis relatio fuit. decrevere patres, ut alteri consulum Italia bellumque cum Hannibale provincia esset, alter classem, cui T. Otacilius praefuisset, Siciliamque provinciam cum L. Cincio praetore obtineret.3
Then there was a joint motion concerning the provinces. The senators decreed that for one of the consuls Italy and the war with Hannibal should be the province, and that the other should obtain the fleet which T. Otacilius had commanded, and the province of Sicily together with the praetor L. Cincius.
exercitus eis duo decreti, qui in Etruria Galliaque essent; eae quattuor erant legiones; urbanae duae superioris anni in Etruriam, duae, quibus Sulpicius consul praefuisset, in Galliam mitterentur;
Two armies were decreed for them, namely those which were in Etruria and Gaul; these were four legions; the two urban legions of the previous year were to be sent into Etruria, and two, which the consul Sulpicius had commanded, into Gaul;
Galliae et legionibus praeesset, quem4 consul, cuius Italia provincia esset, praefecisset;
and that person whom the consul to whom Italy fell as a province should appoint, was to command Gaul and the legions there;
in Etruriam C. Calpurnius post praeturam prorogato in annum imperio missus. et Q. Fulvio Capua provincia decreta prorogatumque in annum imperium;
C. Calpurnius was sent into Etruria after his praetorship, his command being prolonged for a year. And to Q. Fulvius, Capua was decreed as his province, and his command was prolonged for a year;
exercitus civium sociorumque minui iussus, ut ex duabus legionibus una legio, quinque milia peditum et trecenti equites essent, dimissis, qui plurima stipendia haberent, et sociorum septem milia peditum et trecenti equites relinquerentur, eadem ratione stipendiorum habita in veteribus militibus dimittendis.
the army of citizens and allies was ordered to be reduced, so that from the two legions there should be one legion, containing five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry, those who had served the greatest number of campaigns being discharged, and seven thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry of the allies should be left, the same consideration being paid to the campaigns in discharging the veteran soldiers.
Cn. Fulvio consuli superioris anni nec de provincia Apulia nec de exercitu, quem habuerat, quicquam mutatum; tantum in annum prorogatum imperium est. P. Sulpicius, conlega eius, omnem exercitum praeter socios navalis iussus dimittere est.
To Cn. Fulvius, the consul of the previous year, no change was made either with respect to the province of Apulia or the army which he had commanded; only his command was prolonged for a year. P. Sulpicius, his colleague, was ordered to discharge the whole army except the naval allies.
item ex Sicilia exercitus, cui M. Cornelius praeesset, ubi consul in provinciam venisset, dimitti iussus.
Likewise, the army in Sicily, which M. Cornelius commanded, was ordered to be discharged when the consul should arrive in the province.
L. Cincio praetori ad obtinendam Siciliam Cannenses milites dati duarum instar legionum.5
To the praetor L. Cincius, for the defense of Sicily, the Cannae soldiers were given, amounting to two legions.
totidem legiones in Sardiniam P. Manlio Vulsoni praetori decretae, quibus L. Cornelius in eadem provincia priore anno praefuerat.
The same number of legions in Sardinia was decreed to the praetor P. Manlius Vulso, which L. Cornelius had commanded in the same province the year before.
urbanas legiones ita scribere consules iussi, ne quem militem facerent,6 qui in exercitu M. Claudii, M. Valerii, Q. Fulvi fuisset, neve eo anno plures quam una et viginti Romanae legiones essent.
The consuls were ordered to enlist the urban legions in such a manner that they should not make a soldier of any who had been in the army of M. Claudius, M. Valerius, or Q. Fulvius, and that there should not be more than twenty-one Roman legions in that year.
- 26.28.2Philippum, inferentem bellum Aetolis, in Macedoniam retro ab se conpulsum ad intima penitus regni abisse
An accusative with infinitive construction in indirect speech, introduced by exposuit ('explained') in the preceding section. Philippum serves as the subject accusative of the infinitive abisse.
- 26.28.2haec de se deque provincia
An elliptical expression summarizing the consul's report, with the verb (such as dixit or exposuit) omitted.
- 26.28.3alteri consulum Italia bellumque cum Hannibale provincia esset, alter classem... obtineret
Within the clause introduced by decrevere patres, ut, the decree contrasts the assignment of duties using a dative of possession for the first consul (alteri... provincia esset) and an active subjunctive with an accusative object for the second (alter... obtineret).
- 26.28.5quem
The demonstrative pronoun (such as is) serving as the antecedent of the relative pronoun quem and the subject of the main verb praeesset is omitted (structurally: is, quem...).
- 26.28.11duarum instar legionum
The indeclinable noun instar is used here with the genitive (legionum) to mean 'equivalent to' or 'the likeness of' two legions.
- 26.28.13ne quem militem facerent
After the negative particle ne, quem is used as the indefinite pronoun aliquem ('any'). Additionally, militem facere is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to enlist' or 'to enroll a soldier'.