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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 peace terms are sent to Sparta, but they provoke deep dissatisfaction from both the tyrant Nabis and various groups of Spartan citizens, who fear losing their coastal territories, property, freed status, or mercenary pay.
haec conscripta castris propius urbem motis1 Lacedaemonem mittuntur.
These written conditions were sent to Lacedaemon, after the camp had been moved closer to the city.
nec sane quicquam eorum satis placebat tyranno, nisi quod praeter spem reducendorum exulum2 mentio nulla facta erat; maxime autem omnium ea res offendebat, quod et naves et maritimae civitates ademptae erant.
Nor indeed did any of them satisfy the tyrant, except that, contrary to expectation, no mention had been made of restoring the exiles; but what offended him most of all was the fact that both his ships and the maritime states had been taken away.
fuerat autem ei magno fructui mare,3 omnem oram a Maleo praedatoriis navibus infestam habenti; iuventutem praeterea civitatium earum ad supplementum longe optimi generis militum habebat.
For the sea had been of great profit to him, since he kept the entire coast from Malea infested with his pirate ships; moreover, he used the youth of those states as a reinforcement for by far the best class of his soldiers.
has condiciones quamquam ipse in secreto volutaverat cum amicis, vulgo tamen omnes fama ferebant, vanis, ut ad ceteram fidem, sic ad secreta tegenda satellitum regiorum ingeniis.4
Although he himself had turned these conditions over in secret with his friends, they were nevertheless common talk among all, since the characters of the royal bodyguards were as untrustworthy in keeping secrets as they were in all other matters of faith.
non tam omnia universi, quam ea, quae ad quemque pertinerent, singuli carpebant. qui exulum coniuges in matrimonio habebant aut ex bonis eorum aliquid possederant, tamquam amissuri, non reddituri indignabantur. servis liberatis a tyranno non irrita modo futura libertas, sed multo foedior, quam fuisset ante, servitus redeuntibus in iratorum dominorum potestatem5 ante oculos obversabatur.
They did not so much criticize the whole plan as individuals found fault with the parts that affected each one. Those who had married the wives of the exiles or had possessed any of their property were indignant as if they were going to lose them, not restore them. Before the eyes of the slaves who had been freed by the tyrant, there loomed up not only the loss of their freedom, but a slavery far more wretched than before, as they would return to the power of their angered masters.
mercennarii milites et pretia militiae casura in pace aegre ferebant et reditum sibi nullum in civitates videbant, infensas non tyrannis magis quam satellitibus eorum.
The mercenary soldiers both regretted that the pay for their service would fall in time of peace, and saw no return for themselves to their own states, which were not more hostile to the tyrants than to their henchmen.
- 34.36.1castris propius urbem motis
An ablative absolute construction with the noun castris and the participle motis. The comparative adverb propius functions prepositionally, taking the accusative urbem.
- 34.36.2reducendorum exulum
A genitive gerundive construction modifying mentio, meaning "mention of restoring the exiles."
- 34.36.3ei magno fructui mare
A double dative construction. The pronoun ei (dative of reference/advantage) and the noun magno fructui (dative of purpose/result) are used with the pluperfect fuerat.
- 34.36.4vanis... ingeniis
An ablative of cause (or description). The genitive satellitum regiorum modifies ingeniis, meaning "since the characters of the royal bodyguards were untrustworthy." The correlation ut... sic... compares their general lack of faith with their inability to keep secrets.
- 34.36.6redeuntibus in iratorum dominorum potestatem
The dative plural present participle redeuntibus agrees with the dative noun phrase servis liberatis at the beginning of the sentence, meaning "to them (the slaves) returning into the power of their angered masters."