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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 the assassination of the pro-Macedonian leader Brachylles by the Roman party, suspicion falls on Zeuxippus and others. The conspiracy is fully revealed through confessions under torture and a misdelivered letter, leading to the execution of those involved.
dum Romana arma in propinquo haberent,1 tollere Brachyllem, principem fautorum regis, statuerunt.
They decided to remove Brachylles, the leader of the king’s supporters, while they had the Roman army close at hand.
et tempore ad eam rem capto, cum in publico epulatus reverteretur domum temulentus prosequentibus mollibus viris, qui ioci causa convivio celebri interfuerant, ab sex armatis, quorum tres Italici, tres Aetoli erant, circumventus occiditur. fuga comitum et quiritatio facta et tumultus per totam urbem discurrentium cum luminibus;
And having seized a favorable time for the deed, as he was returning home drunk after feasting in public, accompanied by some effeminate men, who had attended the crowded banquet for the sake of jest, he was surrounded and killed by six armed men, of whom three were Italians and three Aetolians. There was a flight of his companions, crying out, and a tumult of people running about with torches through the whole city.
percussores proxima porta evaserunt. luce prima contio frequens velut ex ante indicto aut voce praeconis convocata in theatro erat. palam ab suo comitatu et obscenis illis viris fremebant interfectum, animis autem Zeuxippum auctorem destinabant caedis.
The assassins escaped through the nearest gate. At daybreak, a crowded assembly, as if summoned by prior notice or by the voice of a herald, met in the theatre. They clamored openly that he had been slain by his own retinue and those obscene men, but in their minds they designated Zeuxippus as the author of the murder.
in praesentia placuit comprehendi eos, qui simul fuissent, quaestionemque ex iis haberi. qui dum quaeruntur, Zeuxippus constanti animo avertendi ab se criminis causa in contionem progressus errare ait homines, qui tam atrocem caedem pertinere ad illos semiviros crederent, multaque in eam partem probabiliter est argumentatus, quibus fidem apud quosdam fecit numquam, si sibi conscius esset, oblaturum se multitudini mentionemve eius caedis nullo lacessente facturum fuisse;2
For the present, it was decided that those who had been with him should be arrested, and that an inquiry should be held of them. While they were being questioned, Zeuxippus, in order to avert suspicion from himself, came forward into the assembly with a firm mind and said that those people were mistaken who believed that so atrocious a murder concerned those half-men, and argued many things plausibly in that direction, by which he made some believe that he would never, if he were conscious of guilt, have offered himself to the multitude or made mention of that murder when no one challenged him.
alii non dubitare inpudenter obviam crimini eundo suspicionem averti. torti post paulo insontes, cum scirent ipsi nihil, opinione omnium pro indicio Zeuxippum et Pisistratum nominaverunt nullo adiecto, cur scire quicquam viderentur, argumento.3 Zeuxippus tamen cum Stratonida quodam nocte perfugit Tanagram, suam magis conscientiam quam indicium hominum nullius rei consciorum metuens;
Others did not doubt that by shamelessly meeting the charge he was averting suspicion. Shortly afterwards, innocent men were tortured, and since they themselves knew nothing, they named Zeuxippus and Pisistratus in accordance with the general opinion as their evidence, with no proof added as to why they seemed to know anything. Zeuxippus, however, fearing his own conscience more than the evidence of men who knew nothing, fled by night with a certain Stratonidas to Tanagra.
Pisistratus spretis indicibus Thebis mansit. servus erat Zeuxippi, totius internuntius et minister rei, quem indicem Pisistratus timens eo ipso timore ad indicium protraxit. litteras ad Zeuxippum mittit, ut servum conscium tolleret:
Pisistratus, despising the evidence, remained at Thebes. There was a slave of Zeuxippus, the intermediary and agent of the whole affair, whom Pisistratus, fearing as an informer, dragged to information by that very fear. He sent a letter to Zeuxippus to remove the accomplice slave:
non tam idoneum ad celandam rem eum videri sibi, quam ad agendam fuerit. has qui tulerat litteras iussus Zeuxippo dare quam primum, quia non statim conveniendi eius copia fuit, illi ipsi servo, quem ex omnibus domino fidissimum credebat, tradit et adicit a Pisistrato de re magno opere pertinente ad Zeuxippum esse.
that he did not seem to him as fit for concealing the matter as he had been for executing it. The bearer of this letter, having been ordered to give it to Zeuxippus as soon as possible, because he had no opportunity of meeting him immediately, delivered it to that very slave, whom he believed to be the most faithful to his master of them all, and added that it was from Pisistratus about a matter of great importance to Zeuxippus.
conscientia ictus, cum extemplo traditurum eas adfirmasset, aperit perlectisque litteris pavidus Thebas refugit et ad magistratus indicium defert.
Struck by conscience, although he had promised that he would deliver it immediately, the slave opened and read the letter, and in terror fled back to Thebes and laid the information before the magistrates.
et Zeuxippus quidem fuga servi motus Anthedonem, tutiorem exilio locum ratus, concessit; de Pisistrato aliisque quaestiones tormentis habitae et sumptum supplicium est.
And Zeuxippus indeed, moved by the flight of the slave, withdrew to Anthedon, thinking it a safer place for exile; concerning Pisistratus and the others, inquiries were held by torture and punishment was inflicted.
- 33.28.1dum Romana arma in propinquo haberent
The subjunctive haberent with dum ('while') indicates not just a temporal relation, but also the subjective intention or awareness of the subject (the Roman party) wishing to exploit the circumstance of having the Roman army nearby.
- 33.28.8facturum fuisse
A standard expression for the apodosis of a past contrary-to-fact conditional sentence in indirect speech. What would have been fecissem (or fecisset) in direct speech is represented here within the Accusative with Infinitive construction by facturum fuisse (future participle + fuisse).
- 33.28.9nullo adiecto, cur scire quicquam viderentur, argumento
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun argumento and the adjective nullo enclosing adiecto (perfect passive participle of adicere). The clause cur...viderentur acts as an indirect question modifying or explaining the noun argumento (proof, reason).
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