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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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At the outbreak of the Second Macedonian War, the consul Sulpicius performs rituals and receives favorable omens. After hearing the desperate appeal of the Athenian embassy, the senate determines the procedure for declaring war.
anno quingentesimo quinquagesimo primo ab urbe condita, P. Sulpicio Galba C. Aurelio consulibus bellum cum rege Philippo initum est, paucis mensibus1 post pacem Carthaginiensibus datam.
In the five hundred and fifty-first year from the founding of the city, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius Galba and Gaius Aurelius, the war with King Philip was entered upon, a few months after peace had been granted to the Carthaginians.
omnium primum eam rem idibus Martiis, quo die tum consulatus inibatur, P. Sulpicius consul rettulit, senatusque decrevit, uti consules maioribus hostiis rem divinam facerent quibus diis ipsis videretur cum precatione ea:
First of all, on the Ides of March, the day on which the consulship was then entered upon, the consul Publius Sulpicius made a motion, and the senate decreed that the consuls should perform sacrifices with the larger victims to whichever gods should seem best to them themselves, with this prayer:
“quod senatus populusque Romanus de re publica deque ineundo novo bello in animo haberet, ea res uti populo Romano sociisque ac nomini Latino bene ac feliciter eveniret;”2 secundum rem divinam precationemque ut de re publica deque provinciis senatum consulerent.
“May that which the senate and the Roman people have in mind concerning the state and concerning the entering upon a new war turn out well and auspiciously for the Roman people, their allies, and the Latin name;” and that after the sacrifice and prayer they should consult the senate concerning the state and the provinces.
per eos dies opportune irritandis ad bellum animis et litterae ab M. Aurelio legato et M. Valerio Laevino propraetore adlatae et Atheniensium nova legatio venit, quae regem appropinquare finibus suis nuntiaret, brevique non agros modo, sed urbem etiam in dicione eius futuram, nisi quid in Romanis auxilii foret.
During those days, opportunely for stirring up minds for war, both letters were brought from the legate Marcus Aurelius and the propraetor Marcus Valerius Laevinus, and a new embassy from the Athenians arrived, which was to announce that the king was approaching their borders, and that in a short time not only their fields but also their city would be under his control, unless there should be some help in the Romans.
cum renuntiassent consules rem divinam rite peractam esse et precationi annuisse deos haruspices respondere3 laetaque exta fuisse et prolationem finium victoriamque et triumphum portendi, tum litterae Valerii Aureliique lectae et legati Atheniensium auditi.
When the consuls had reported back that the sacrifice had been duly performed, and that the haruspices answered that the gods had assented to the prayer, and that the entrails had been favorable, and that extension of territory, victory, and triumph were portended, then the letters of Valerius and Aurelius were read and the Athenian ambassadors were heard.
senatus inde consultum factum est, ut sociis gratiae agerentur, quod diu sollicitati ne obsidionis quidem metu fide decessissent;
Thereupon a decree of the senate was passed, that thanks should be given to the allies, because, though long solicited, they had not, even from fear of siege, departed from their loyalty;
de auxilio mittendo tum responderi placere, cum consules provincias sortiti essent atque is consul, cui Macedonia provincia evenisset, ad populum tulisset, ut Philippo, regi Macedonum, indiceretur bellum.
and they decided that a reply concerning sending aid should be given at that time, when the consuls should have drawn lots for the provinces and that consul to whom the province of Macedonia had fallen should have proposed to the people that war be declared against Philip, king of the Macedonians.
- 31.5.1paucis mensibus
Ablative of measure of difference, used with the following post to express the time interval "a few months after."
- 31.5.4quod senatus populusque Romanus de re publica deque ineundo novo bello in animo haberet, ea res uti populo Romano sociisque ac nomini Latino bene ac feliciter eveniret
A formulaic prayer. The clause quod ... haberet is either in apposition to ea res in the main clause or a relative clause with ea res as its antecedent. The verb haberet is subjunctive because it is a subordinate clause in indirect discourse. uti ... eveniret is the subjunctive of wish (optative) with uti (= ut), or a noun clause expressing the content of the decree.
- 31.5.7haruspices respondere
A nested accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction. The accusative subject haruspices and the infinitive respondere form a clause that is one of the object clauses coordinated under cum renuntiassent consules (when the consuls had reported). Furthermore, another A.C.I. clause, precationi annuisse deos (that the gods had assented to the prayer), depends on this respondere as its object.
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