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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 ritual of the "sacred spring" is celebrated in Rome, and while news of victory in Spain eases tension there, commissioners warn of the impending threat to Greece from King Antiochus and the Spartan tyrant Nabis.
provinciis ita distributis consules, priusquam ab urbe proficiscerentur, ver sacrum ex decreto pontificum iussi facere, quod A. Cornelius Mammula praetor voverat de senatus sententia populique iussu Cn. Servilio C. Flaminio consulibus. annis post uno et viginti1 factum est quam votum.
The provinces having been thus distributed, the consuls, before they set out from the city, were ordered to celebrate a “sacred spring” (ver sacrum) in accordance with a decree of the pontiffs, which the praetor Appius Cornelius Mammula had vowed by resolution of the senate and by order of the people during the consulship of Gnaeus Servilius and Gaius Flaminius. It was celebrated twenty-one years after it had been vowed.
per eosdem dies C. Claudius Appi filius Pulcher augur in Q. Fabi Maximi locum, qui priore anno mortuus erat, lectus inauguratusque est.
About the same time, Gaius Claudius Pulcher, son of Appius, was chosen and inaugurated as augur in place of Quintus Fabius Maximus, who had died the previous year.
mirantibus iam vulgo hominibus, quod Hispania movisset bellum neglegi,2 litterae a Q. Minucio adlatae sunt se ad Turdam oppidum cum Budare et Baesadine, imperatoribus Hispanis, signis conlatis prospere pugnasse; duodecim milia hostium caesa, Budarem imperatorem captum, ceteros fusos fugatosque.
While the common people were already wondering that the war which Spain had started was being neglected, a letter was brought from Quintus Minucius, stating that he had fought a successful battle near the town of Turda against Budar and Baesadines, the Spanish commanders; twelve thousand of the enemy had been slain, the commander Budar captured, and the rest routed and put to flight.
his litteris lectis minus terroris ab Hispanis erat, unde ingens bellum expectatum fuerat; omnes curae, utique post adventum decem legatorum, in Antiochum regem conversae.
On the reading of this letter, there was less fear of the Spaniards, from whom a great war had been expected; all anxieties were turned towards King Antiochus, especially after the arrival of the ten commissioners.
hi expositis prius, quae cum Philippo acta essent et quibus legibus data pax, non minorem belli molem instare ab Antiocho docuerunt:
These, after first explaining what had been done with Philip and on what terms peace had been granted, informed them that no less a burden of war was threatening from Antiochus:
ingenti classe, egregio terrestri exercitu in Europam eum traiecisse et, nisi avertisset vana spes, ex vaniore rumore orta, Aegypti invadendae, mox bello Graeciam arsuram fuisse;3 neque enim ne Aetolos quidem quieturos, cum ingenio inquietam tum iratam Romanis gentem.
that he had crossed into Europe with a huge fleet and an excellent land army, and that, had not a groundless hope of invading Egypt, arising from an even more groundless rumor, diverted him, Greece would soon have been ablaze with war; for not even the Aetolians would remain quiet, a nation restless by nature and now angry with the Romans.
haerere et aliud in visceribus Graeciae ingens malum, Nabim, nunc Lacedaemoniorum, mox, si liceat, universae Graeciae futurum tyrannum, avaritia et crudelitate omnis fama celebratos tyrannos aequantem; cui4 si Argos velut arcem Peloponneso inpositam tenere liceat, deportatis in Italiam Romanis exercitibus nequiquam liberatam a Philippo Graeciam fore, pro rege, si nihil aliud, longinquo vicinum tyrannum dominum habituram.
Another great evil was also clinging to the very vitals of Greece: Nabis, now tyrant of the Lacedaemonians, and soon, if permitted, to be the tyrant of all Greece, equaling in greed and cruelty all the tyrants celebrated in fame; if he were allowed to hold Argos, which was set like a citadel over the Peloponnese, then after the Roman armies had been withdrawn to Italy, the liberation of Greece from Philip would have been in vain, and she would have, at least, a neighboring tyrant for a master instead of a distant king.
- 33.44.2annis post uno et viginti
post... quam is a temporal conjunction meaning "after". Here, the numeral uno et viginti is inserted between them, inflected in the ablative of degree of difference agreeing with annis. votum stands for votum erat or votum est.
- 33.44.4mirantibus iam vulgo hominibus, quod Hispania movisset bellum neglegi
mirantibus ... hominibus is an ablative absolute. Inside the quod clause, neglegi is a present passive infinitive, with Hispania movisset bellum (the war which Spain had started) acting as its subject accusative, meaning "that the war ... was being neglected." This entire quod clause expresses the cause of their wondering (mirantibus).
- 33.44.7arsuram fuisse
Represents the apodosis of a past unreal conditional sentence in indirect discourse. What would have been arsisset (pluperfect subjunctive) in direct discourse is expressed in the accusative-with-infinitive construction by combining the future participle (arsuram) with fuisse.
- 33.44.9cui
A relative connection (connectio relativa) referring back to Nabis (Nabim) mentioned in the preceding sentence. It functions as the dative complement in the following conditional clause si ... liceat.