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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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The ovations and treasury contributions of generals returning from Spain are described, followed by Flamininus's release of Boeotian soldiers from Elatia, which unexpectedly triggers the rise of the anti-Roman faction in Boeotia.
iisdem diebus Cn. Cornelius Blasio, qui ante C. Sempronium Tuditanum citeriorem Hispaniam obtinuerat, ovans ex senatus consulto urbem est ingressus.
About the same time, Gnaeus Cornelius Blasio, who had governed Nearer Spain before Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, entered the city in ovation by decree of the senate.
tulit prae se auri mille et quingenta quindecim pondo, argenti viginti milia, signati denarium1 triginta quattuor milia et quingentos.
He carried in his procession fifteen hundred and fifteen pounds of gold, twenty thousand pounds of silver, and thirty-four thousand five hundred coined denarii.
L. Stertinius ex ulteriore Hispania, ne temptata quidem triumphi spe, quinquaginta milia pondo argenti in aerarium intulit et de manubiis duos fornices in foro bovario ante Fortunae aedem et matris Matutae, unum in maximo circo fecit et his fornicibus signa aurata inposuit.
Lucius Stertinius, returning from Farther Spain, without even testing the hope of a triumph, brought fifty thousand pounds of silver into the treasury, and out of the spoils built two arches in the Forum Boarium before the temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta, and one in the Circus Maximus, and placed gilded statues upon these arches.
haec per hiemem ferme acta. hibernabat eo tempore Elatiae2 T. Quinctius, a quo cum multa socii peterent, Boeoti petierunt impetraveruntque, ut, qui suae gentis militassent apud Philippum, sibi restituerentur.
These things were done for the most part during the winter. At that time Titus Quinctius was wintering at Elatia, and when the allies were requesting many things of him, the Boeotians petitioned for and obtained the return of those of their nation who had served as soldiers under Philip.
id a Quinctio facile impetratum, non quia satis dignos eos credebat, sed quia Antiocho rege iam suspecto favor conciliandus nomini Romano apud civitates erat.
This was easily granted by Quinctius, not because he believed them to be sufficiently worthy, but because, since King Antiochus was already suspected, the goodwill of the cities toward the Roman name had to be secured.
restitutis iis confestim apparuit, quam nulla inita apud Boeotos gratia esset; nam ad Philippum legatos gratias agentes ei pro redditis hominibus, perinde atque ipsis et non Quinctio et Romanis id datum esset,3 miserunt et comitiis proximis Boeotarchen ob nullam aliam causam Brachyllem quendam, quam quod praefectus Boeotorum apud regem militantium fuisset, fecerunt praeteritis Zeuxippo et Pisistrato aliisque, qui Romanae societatis auctores fuerant.
As soon as they were restored, it became immediately apparent how little gratitude had been felt among the Boeotians; for they sent ambassadors to Philip to thank him for the return of the men, just as if that favor had been granted to themselves, and not by Quinctius and the Romans. And at the next election, for no other reason than that he had been the commander of the Boeotians serving under the king, they elected a certain Brachylles as Boeotarch, passing over Zeuxippus, Pisistratus, and others who had been the promoters of the Roman alliance.
id aegre et in praesentia hi passi et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt: cum ad portas prope sedente exercitu Romano ea fierent quidnam se futurum esse profectis in Italiam Romanis,4 Philippo ex propinquo socios adiuvante et infesto iis, qui partis adversae fuissent?
This the Roman party bore with difficulty for the present, and they also conceived fear for the future: if such things happened while the Roman army was encamped almost at their gates, what indeed would become of them when the Romans had departed for Italy, with Philip close at hand assisting his allies and hostile to those who had been of the opposite party?
- 33.27.2denarium
denarium is the contracted genitive plural (for denariorum), depending on the numeral triginta quattuor milia et quingentos ("thirty-four thousand five hundred coined denarii").
- 33.27.5Elatiae
Locative case of the town name Elatia ("at Elatia").
- 33.27.7perinde atque ipsis et non Quinctio et Romanis id datum esset
An adverbial clause of comparison introduced by perinde atque ("just as if"). ipsis is the dative of recipient referring to the Boeotians, while Quinctio et Romanis is construed as the dative of agent with the passive verb datum esset ("as if that favor had been granted to themselves [by Philip], and not by Quinctius and the Romans").
- 33.27.10quidnam se futurum esse profectis in Italiam Romanis
An indirect question in indirect discourse (oratio obliqua) dependent on metum ceperunt. In direct speech, this would be a rhetorical question (quidnam de nobis fiet? "what will become of us?"), which in indirect speech is expressed by the accusative and infinitive (quidnam se futurum esse). profectis in Italiam Romanis is an ablative absolute.