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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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While the consul Villius is deliberating whether to force the pass occupied by Philip or to take a detour, he receives news that the new consul Titus Quinctius has arrived at Corcyra. Livy contrasts Valerius Antias' account of a great victory by Villius with the consensus of other historians that nothing memorable was achieved.
consul per Charopum Epiroten certior factus, quos saltus cum exercitu insedisset rex, et ipse, cum Corcyrae hibernasset, vere primo in continentem travectus ad hostem ducere pergit.1
The consul, having been informed through Charopus the Epirote which mountain passes the king had occupied with his army, and having himself wintered at Corcyra, crossed over to the mainland at the beginning of spring and proceeded to march against the enemy.
quinque milia ferme ab regiis castris cum abesset, loco munito relictis legionibus ipse cum expeditis progressus ad speculanda loca postero die consilium habuit, utrum per insessum ab hoste saltum, quamquam labor ingens periculumque proponeretur, transitum temptaret, an2 eodem itinere, quo priore anno Sulpicius Macedoniam intraverat, circumduceret copias. hoc consilium per multos dies agitanti ei nuntius venit T. Quinctium consulem factum sortitumque provinciam Macedoniam maturato itinere iam Corcyram traiecisse.
When he was about five miles away from the royal camp, leaving the legions in a fortified position, he himself advanced with light-armed troops to reconnoiter the terrain, and on the following day held a council, whether he should attempt a crossing through the pass occupied by the enemy, although immense toil and danger were presented, or whether he should lead his forces around by the same route by which Sulpicius had entered Macedonia the previous year. As he was debating this plan for many days, news came to him that Titus Quinctius, having been elected consul and having obtained the province of Macedonia by lot, having hastened his journey, had already crossed over to Corcyra.
Valerius Antias intrasse saltum Villium tradit, quia recto itinere nequiverit omnibus ab rege insessis, secutum vallem, per quam mediam fertur Aous amnis, ponte raptim facto in ripam, in qua erant castra regia, transgressum acie conflixisse; fusum fugatumque regem, castris exutum;
Valerius Antias reports that Villius entered the pass, because he had been unable to do so by the direct route, as all approaches were occupied by the king, and followed the valley through the middle of which the river Aous flows, and that, a bridge having been hastily built, he crossed over to the bank on which the royal camp was situated and fought a pitched battle; and that the king was routed, put to flight, and stripped of his camp;
duodecim milia hostium eo proelio caesa, capta duo milia et ducentos et signa militaria centum triginta duo, equos ducentos triginta; aedem etiam Iovi in eo proelio votam, si res prospere gesta esset.
and that twelve thousand of the enemy were slain in that battle, two thousand two hundred captured, along with one hundred and thirty-two military standards and two hundred and thirty horses; and also that a temple was vowed to Jupiter in that battle, if the affair should be successfully conducted.
ceteri Graeci Latinique auctores, quorum quidem ego legi annales, nihil memorabile a Villio actum integrumque bellum3 insequentem consulem T. Quinctium accepisse tradunt.
The other Greek and Latin authors, whose annals indeed I have read, report that nothing memorable was done by Villius, and that the succeeding consul, Titus Quinctius, received the war untouched.
- 32.6.1ducere pergit
The verb ducere (to lead) is used here intransitively (with an implied object like copias) meaning 'to march' or 'to advance' against the enemy.
- 32.6.3utrum... an...
A double indirect question introduced by utrum... an... (whether... or...), dependent on the idea of deliberation in consilium habuit (32.6.2) and agitanti (32.6.4), using the imperfect subjunctives temptaret and circumduceret.
- 32.6.8integrumque bellum
Literally 'an untouched war.' In contrast to Valerius Antias' exaggerated report of victory, this phrase expresses the consensus of other historians that no decisive actions had been taken under Villius, leaving the war completely undecided and fresh for his successor.