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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 Quinctius' speech, the Athenian envoy praises the Romans while criticizing the Aetolians. In response, the Aetolian leader Alexander denounces the Athenians and Achaeans, accuses the Romans of hypocrisy in maintaining garrisons under the guise of liberty, and demands the withdrawal of their legions.
post orationem Romani imperatoris percenseri aliorum sententiae coeptae sunt.1
After the speech of the Roman general, the opinions of the others began to be reviewed.
cum legatus Atheniensium, quantum poterat, gratiis agendis Romanorum in Graeciam merita extulisset, “imploratos adversus Philippum tulisse opem, non rogatos ultro adversus tyrannum Nabim offerre auxilium”
When the envoy of the Athenians, as far as he could, by expressing thanks, had extolled the merits of the Romans toward Greece, [saying] “that, having been implored, they had brought help against Philip, and now, unasked, they voluntarily offered aid against the tyrant Nabis,”
indignatusque esset haec tanta merita sermonibus tamen aliquorum carpi futura calumniantium,2 cum fateri potius praeteritorum gratiam deberent, apparebat incessi Aetolos.
and had expressed indignation that these so great merits were nevertheless being carped at by the speeches of some who slandered the future, whereas they ought rather to acknowledge gratitude for past things, it was clear that the Aetolians were being attacked.
igitur Alexander, princeps gentis, invectus primum in Atheniensis, libertatis quondam duces et auctores, adsentationis propriae gratia communem causam prodentis,3 questus deinde Achaeos, Philippi quondam milites, ad postremum inclinata fortuna eius transfugas, et Corinthum recepisse et id agere, ut Argos habeant, Aetolos, primos hostis Philippi semper socios Romanorum, pactos in foedere suas urbes agrosque fore devicto Philippo, fraudari Echino et Pharsalo,4 insimulavit fraudis Romanos, quod vano titulo libertatis ostentato Chalcidem et Demetriadem praesidiis tenerent, qui Philippo cunctanti deducere inde praesidia obicere semper soliti sint “numquam donec Demetrias Chalcisque et Corinthus tenerentur liberam Graeciam fore,”
Therefore, Alexander, the chief of that nation, having first inveighed against the Athenians, once leaders and authors of liberty, who were betraying the common cause for the sake of their own flattery, then having complained that the Achaeans, once soldiers of Philip, and finally deserters when his fortune declined, had both received Corinth and were striving to have Argos, and that the Aetolians, the first enemies of Philip and always allies of the Romans, who had covenanted in the treaty that their cities and fields would be theirs upon the defeat of Philip, were being defrauded of Echinus and Pharsalus, he accused the Romans of deceit, because, having displayed the empty title of liberty, they held Chalcis and Demetrias with garrisons, although they themselves, when Philip hesitated to withdraw his garrisons from there, had always been accustomed to object “that Greece would never be free as long as Demetrias, Chalcis, and Corinth were held,”
postremo quia manendi in Graecia retinendique exercitus Argos et Nabim causam facerent.
and finally because they made Argos and Nabis a pretext for remaining in Greece and retaining their army.
deportarent5 legiones in Italiam; Aetolos polliceri aut condicionibus et voluntate sua Nabim praesidium Argis deducturum, aut vi atque armis coacturos in potestate consentientis Graeciae esse.
Let them transport their legions to Italy; the Aetolians promised either that Nabis would withdraw his garrison from Argos on conditions and of his own free will, or that they would compel him by force of arms to be under the power of a consenting Greece.
- 34.23.1coeptae sunt
The verb coepi takes the passive form coeptae sunt because it is paired with the passive infinitive percenseri. This is a standard rule in classical Latin.
- 34.23.4futura calumniantium
calumniantium is the present participle of the deponent verb calumnior, taking the neuter plural accusative futura ("the future/future events") as its direct object. The entire accusative and infinitive clause (haec tanta merita... carpi) depends on indignatus esset.
- 34.23.5Atheniensis... prodentis
Both Atheniensis and its agreeing participle prodentis display the accusative plural ending -is (commonly used in classical Latin instead of -es). They function as the object of the preposition in.
- 34.23.7Aetolos... fraudari Echino et Pharsalo
This accusative and infinitive clause depends on questus in §34.23.6. pactos is the perfect participle of the deponent verb paciscor, agreeing with Aetolos and introducing its own indirect statement suas urbes agrosque fore. Echino and Pharsalo are ablatives of separation/deprivation dependent on the passive fraudari.
- 34.23.11deportarent
This is a jussive/volitive subjunctive used in indirect speech, representing an imperative (deportate) in direct speech.