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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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Following his defeat, King Philip retreated toward Thessaly, destroying allied towns and evacuating their populations before the territory fell to the enemy. Meanwhile, the Aetolians also capitalized on the Roman success by invading Thessaly and sacking multiple cities.
postero die consul per ipsas angustias, quas inter1 valle se flumen insinuat, hostem sequitur.
On the following day, the consul followed the enemy through the very defile through which, in the valley, the river winds its way.
rex primo die ad castra Pyrrhi pervenit; locus, quem ita vocant, est in Triphylia terrae Molottidis. inde postero die — ingens iter agmini, sed metus urgebat — in montes Lyncon perrexit.
On the first day, the king arrived at the “Camp of Pyrrhus”; the place so called is in Triphylia in the territory of Molossis. From there, on the following day—a huge march for an army, but fear urged them on—he proceeded to the Lyncus mountains.
ipsi Epiri sunt,2 interiecti Macedoniae Thessaliaeque; latus, quod vergit in Thessaliam, oriens spectat, septentrio a Macedonia obicitur. vestiti frequentibus silvis sunt; iuga summa campos patentes aquasque perennis habent.
These mountains themselves belong to Epirus, lying between Macedonia and Thessaly; the side which slopes toward Thessaly faces east, while the northern side is opposed to Macedonia. They are clothed with dense forests; their highest ridges have open plains and perennial waters.
ibi stativis rex per aliquot dies habitis fluctuatus animo est, utrum protinus in regnum se reciperet, an praeverti in Thessaliam posset.
There, after holding his camp for several days, the king wavered in his mind whether he should retreat directly into his kingdom, or whether he could pre-occupy Thessaly.
inclinavit sententia, ut in Thessaliam agmen demitteret, Triccamque proximis limitibus petit; inde obvias urbes raptim peragravit.
His decision inclined toward leading his army down into Thessaly, and he headed for Tricca by the shortest routes; from there, he rapidly traversed the cities in his path.
homines, qui sequi possent, sedibus excibat; oppida incendebat. rerum suarum, quas possent, ferendarum secum dominis ius fiebat,3 cetera militis praeda erat.
He forced from their homes the men who were able to follow; he burned the towns. The owners were allowed the right to carry away such of their property as they could; the rest became the booty of the soldiers.
nec, quod ab hoste crudelius pati possent, reliqui quicquam4 fuit, quam quae ab sociis patiebantur.
Nor was there anything left which they could suffer more cruelly from an enemy than what they were suffering from their allies.
haec etiam facienti Philippo acerba erant, sed e terra mox futura hostium corpora saltem eripere sociorum volebat.
These actions were painful even to Philip who was performing them, but he wished at least to rescue the persons of his allies from a land that would soon belong to the enemy.
ita evastata oppida sunt Phacium, Iresiae, Euhydrium, Eretria, Palaepharsalus. Pheras cum peteret, exclusus, quia res egebat mora, si expugnare vellet, nec tempus erat, omisso incepto in Macedoniam transcendit;
In this way, the towns of Phacium, Iresiae, Euhydrium, Eretria, and Palaepharsalus were devastated. When he headed for Pherae, he was shut out; since the matter required delay if he wished to storm it, and there was no time, he abandoned the attempt and crossed over into Macedonia;
nam etiam Aetolos adpropinquare fama erat. qui audito proelio, quod circa amnem Aoum factum erat, proximis prius evastatis circa Sperchias et Macran quam vocant Comen, transgressi inde in Thessaliam Cymenes et Angeias primo impetu potiti sunt.
for there was a rumor that the Aetolians also were approaching. On hearing of the battle which had taken place around the river Aous, after first devastating the nearest areas around Sperchiae and the place they call Macra Come, they crossed from there into Thessaly and captured Cymene and Angeae at the first assault.
a Metropoli, dum vastant agros, concursu oppidanorum ad tuenda moenia facto repulsi sunt. Callithera inde adgressi similem impetum oppidanorum pertinacius sustinuerunt;
At Metropolis, while they were devastating the fields, they were repulsed because a rush of the townspeople had been made to defend the walls. Attacking Callithera next, they sustained a similar onset of the townspeople with greater obstinacy;
compulsisque intra moenia qui eruperant, contenti ea victoria, quia spes nulla admodum expugnandi erat, abscesserunt. Teuma inde et Celathara vicos expugnant diripiuntque;
and having forced back within the walls those who had sallied out, content with that victory, because there was no hope at all of storming the town, they departed. From there, they stormed and plundered the villages of Teuma and Celathara;
Acharras per deditionem receperunt.
they received Acharras by surrender.
Xyniae simili metu a cultoribus desertae sunt. hoc sedibus suis extorre agmen in praesidium incidit, quod ad Thaumacum, quo tutior frumentatio esset,5 ducebatur; incondita inermisque multitudo, mixta et imbelli turba, ab armatis caesa est. Xyniae desertae diripiuntur. Cyphaera inde Aetoli capiunt, opportune Dolopiae imminens castellum.
Xyniae, from a similar fear, was abandoned by its inhabitants. This column, exiled from their homes, fell in with a detachment which was being led to Thaumacus in order that foraging might be safer; the disorderly and unarmed multitude, mixed with a crowd unfit for war, was slaughtered by the armed men. Xyniae, being deserted, was plundered. From there, the Aetolians captured Cyphaera, a fortress opportunely commanding Dolopia.
haec raptim intra paucos dies ab Aetolis gesta. nec Amynander atque Athamanes post famam prosperae pugnae Romanorum quieverunt.
These things were done rapidly within a few days by the Aetolians. Nor did Amynander and the Athamanes remain inactive after the news of the successful battle of the Romans.
- 32.13.1quas inter
The preposition inter is placed after the relative pronoun quas (referring to angustias) which it governs. This kind of anastrophe (postposition) is frequently used in Latin historical narrative.
- 32.13.3Epiri sunt
The subject is the previously mentioned montes (mountains). Epiri is the genitive of the place-name Epirus (feminine singular), functioning as a genitive of possession or belonging ("belong to Epirus").
- 32.13.6rerum suarum, quas possent, ferendarum secum dominis ius fiebat
The main clause is dominis ius fiebat (right was granted to the owners), where dominis is a dative of possessor. The content of the right is expressed by the gerundive genitive phrase rerum suarum ... ferendarum (of carrying away their property), with the relative clause quas possent (such as they could) in the subjunctive.
- 32.13.7reliqui quicquam
The neuter singular genitive reliqui of the adjective reliquus functions as a partitive genitive modifying the indefinite pronoun quicquam, meaning "anything left" or "any remainder".
- 32.13.14quo tutior frumentatio esset
The relative adverb quo (equivalent to ut eo) introduces a clause of purpose containing a comparative (tutior), with the verb esset in the imperfect subjunctive.