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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 Flamininus captures Phaloria and accepts the surrender of nearby cities before advancing toward Atrax. Meanwhile, King Philip of Macedon, avoiding a direct encounter, sends reinforcements from his camp in Tempe.
primam urbem Thessaliae Phaloriam est adgressus. duo milia Macedonum in praesidio habebat,1 qui primo summa vi restiterunt, quantum arma, quantum moenia tueri poterant.
He attacked Phaloria, the first city of Thessaly. It had a garrison of two thousand Macedonians, who at first resisted with their utmost force, as far as arms and walls could protect them.
sed oppugnatio continua, non nocte non die remissa, cum consul in eo verti crederet ceterorum Thessalorum animos,2 si primi vim Romanam non sustinuissent, vicit pertinaciam Macedonum.
But the continuous assault, relaxed neither by night nor by day, broke the obstinacy of the Macedonians, since the consul believed that the minds of the other Thessalians would turn upon this, if the first did not withstand the Roman force.
capta Phaloria legati a Metropoli et a Cierio dedentes urbes venerunt. venia petentibus datur: Phaloria incensa ac direpta est.
Once Phaloria was captured, envoys came from Metropolis and Cierium surrendering their cities. Pardon was granted to those who petitioned; Phaloria was burned and plundered.
inde Aeginium petit: quem locum cum vel modico praesidio tutum m ac prope inexpugnabilem3 vidisset, paucis in stationem proximam telis coniectis ad Gomphorum regionem agmen vertit.
Thence he headed for Aeginium; when he saw that this place was safe and almost impregnable even with a modest garrison, having thrown only a few missiles into the nearest outpost, he turned his column toward the territory of Gomphi.
degressusque in campos Thessaliae, cum iam omnia exercitui deessent, quia Epirotarum pepercerat agris, explorato ante, utrum Leucadem an sinum Ambracium onerariae tenuissent,4 frumentatum5 Ambraciam in vicem cohortes misit;
And having descended into the plains of Thessaly, since everything was already lacking for the army because he had spared the lands of the Epirotes, having first scouted whether the transport ships had reached Leucas or the Ambracian Gulf, he sent cohorts to Ambracia in turn to forage for grain.
et est iter a Gomphis Ambraciam sicut impeditum ac difficile, ita spatio perbrevi.
And the route from Gomphi to Ambracia, though obstructed and difficult, is nevertheless extremely short in distance.
intra paucos itaque dies transvectis a mari commeatibus repleta omni rerum copia sunt castra.
Thus within a few days, supplies having been brought from the sea, the camp was filled with an abundance of all things.
inde Atracem est profectus. decem ferme milia ab Larisa abest; ex Perrhaebia oriundi sunt; sita est urbs super Peneum amnem.
From there he set out for Atrax. It is about ten miles distant from Larisa; the inhabitants originate from Perrhaebia; the city is situated above the river Peneus.
nihil trepidavere Thessali ad primum adventum Romanorum; et Philippus sicut in Thessaliam ipse progredi non audebat, ita intra Tempe stativis positis, ut quisque locus ab hoste temptabatur,6 praesidia per occasiones summittebat.
The Thessalians were not at all alarmed by the first arrival of the Romans; and Philip, just as he himself did not dare to advance into Thessaly, so keeping his stationary camp within Tempe, whenever any place was threatened by the enemy, sent reinforcements as opportunities offered.
- 32.15.1duo milia Macedonum in praesidio habebat
The subject of the verb 'habebat' is the city Phaloria or its inhabitants, indicating that the town contained a garrison of two thousand men.
- 32.15.2cum consul in eo verti crederet ceterorum Thessalorum animos
The phrase 'in eo verti' means 'to depend on that' or 'to turn upon that'. The pronoun 'eo' refers to the following conditional clause 'si primi vim Romanam non sustinuissent' (if the first did not withstand the Roman force).
- 32.15.4tutum m ac prope inexpugnabilem
The reading 'tutum m' in the manuscripts is understood as a scribal error (likely an erroneous repetition of 'ac'), and syntactically functions as 'tutum ac prope inexpugnabilem' ('safe and almost impregnable').
- 32.15.5explorato ante, utrum Leucadem an sinum Ambracium onerariae tenuissent
The participle 'explorato' is used in an impersonal ablative absolute construction in the neuter singular, taking the indirect question introduced by 'utrum... an...' as its logical subject or appositive clause.
- 32.15.5frumentatum
The accusative supine of the deponent verb 'frumentor', which expresses purpose ('to forage for grain') after the verb of motion 'misit' (sent).
- 32.15.9ut quisque locus ab hoste temptabatur
The conjunction 'ut' combined with the indefinite pronoun 'quisque' indicates repetition or individual occurrence: 'whenever each place was threatened' or 'as each location was attacked'.