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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 provinces of the consuls Flaccus and Cato, as well as those of the praetors, are determined, and the prolongation of commands and military assignments for various regions, including Macedonia, are decided.
L. Valerius Flaccus et M. Porcius Cato consules idibus Martiis, quo die magistratum inierunt de provinciis cum ad senatum rettulissent, patres censuerunt,1 quoniam in Hispania tantum glisceret bellum, ut iam consulari et duce et exercitu opus esset placere consules Hispaniam citeriorem Italiamque provincias aut comparare inter se aut sortiri;
On the Ides of March, the day they entered upon their office, the consuls Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Marcus Porcius Cato made a report to the senate concerning the provinces, and the senators decreed, that since the war was growing so fierce in Spain that it now required both a consular commander and a consular army, the consuls should either arrange between themselves or draw lots for the provinces of Nearer Spain and Italy;
utri Hispania provincia evenisset, eum duas legiones et quindecim milia socium Latini nominis et octingentos equites secum portare et naves longas viginti ducere;
whichever of the two should receive the province of Spain should take with him two legions, fifteen thousand allies of the Latin name, and eight hundred cavalry, and should command twenty warships;
alter consul duas scriberet legiones; iis Galliam obtineri provinciam satis esse2 fractis proximo anno Insubrum Boiorumque animis:
the other consul should enroll two legions, and that these were sufficient for holding the province of Gaul, since the spirits of the Insubres and Boii had been broken in the previous year.
Cato Hispaniam, Valerius Italiam est sortitus. praetores deinde provincias sortiti, C. Fabricius Luscinus urbanam, C. Atinius Labeo peregrinam, Cn. Manlius Volso Siciliam, Ap. Claudius Nero Hispaniam ulteriorem, P. Porcius Laeca Pisas, ut ab tergo Liguribus esset; P. Manlius in Hispaniam citeriorem adiutor consuli datus.
Cato drew Spain, and Valerius drew Italy. Then the praetors drew lots for their provinces: Gaius Fabricius Luscinus received the urban jurisdiction, Gaius Atinius Labeo the jurisdiction over foreigners, Gnaeus Manlius Vulso Sicily, Appius Claudius Nero Farther Spain, and Publius Porcius Laeca Pisae, so that he might be in the rear of the Ligurians; Publius Manlius was assigned to Nearer Spain as an assistant to the consul.
T. Quinctio suspectis non solum Antiocho et Aetolis, sed iam etiam Nabide,3 Lacedaemoniorum tyranno, prorogatum in annum imperium est, duas legiones ut haberet. in eas si quid supplementi opus esset, consules scribere et mittere in Macedoniam iussi.
For Titus Quinctius, as not only Antiochus and the Aetolians but now also Nabis, the tyrant of the Lacedaemonians, were suspected, his command was prolonged for a year, with the instruction that he should keep two legions. If there should be any need of recruits for these, the consuls were ordered to enlist and send them to Macedonia.
Ap. Claudio praeter legionem, quam Q. Fabius habuerat, duo milia peditum et ducentos equites novos ut scriberet, permissum.
Appius Claudius was permitted, in addition to the legion which Quintus Fabius had commanded, to enlist two thousand new infantry and two hundred cavalry.
par numerus peditum equitumque novorum et P. Manlio in citeriorem Hispaniam decretus et legio eadem, quae fuerat sub Q. Minucio praetore, data. et P. Porcio Laecae circa Pisas decem milia peditum et quingenti equites ex Gallico exercitu decreti. in Sardinia prorogatum imperium Ti. Sempronio Longo.
An equal number of new infantry and cavalry was decreed also for Publius Manlius in Nearer Spain, and the same legion which had been under the praetor Quintus Minucius was given to him. Also, for Publius Porcius Laeca, around Pisae, ten thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry from the army in Gaul were decreed. In Sardinia, the command was prolonged for Tiberius Sempronius Longus.
- 33.43.1patres censuerunt
The verb censuerunt introduces indirect discourse (Oratio Obliqua) which begins with placere in §33.43.2 governing accusative-and-infinitive clauses, and transitions into a subjunctive of indirect command (scriberet) in §33.43.4. This is a characteristic syntactic skeleton used by Livy to report senatorial decrees.
- 33.43.4iis Galliam obtineri provinciam satis esse
This structure is centered around the infinitive satis esse (that it was sufficient) in indirect discourse. Its subject is the clause Galliam obtineri provinciam (for Gaul to be held as a province), where obtineri is a passive infinitive and Galliam provinciam its accusative subject. iis is an ablative of means referring back to duas legiones in the preceding clause.
- 33.43.6T. Quinctio suspectis non solum Antiocho et Aetolis, sed iam etiam Nabide
The clause suspectis non solum Antiocho et Aetolis, sed iam etiam Nabide is an ablative absolute. The passive participle suspectis (regarded with suspicion) is plural to agree with the multiple logical subjects (Antiochus, the Aetolians, and Nabis). T. Quinctio is a dative of reference (or agent) indicating to whom these parties were suspected.