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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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Flamininus withdrew the garrisons from the Euboean cities and Demetrias, and then entered Thessaly, where he established a stable new political order based on property qualifications to curb the nation's chronic unrest.
ipse Chalcidem profectus, deductis non a Chalcide solum sed etiam ab Oreo atque Eretria praesidiis, conventum ibi Euboicarum habuit civitatium admonitosque,1 in quo statu rerum accepisset eos et in quo relinqueret, dimisit.
He himself set out for Chalcis, and having withdrawn the garrisons not only from Chalcis but also from Oreus and Eretria, he held an assembly there of the Euboean cities, and after reminding them in what state of affairs he had received them and in what state he was leaving them, he dismissed them.
Demetriadem inde proficiscitur;
From there he proceeded to Demetrias;
deductoque praesidio prosequentibus cunctis, sicut Corinthi et Chalcide, pergit ire in Thessaliam, ubi non liberandae modo civitates erant, sed ex omni colluvione et confusione in aliquam tolerabilem formam redigendae.
and having withdrawn the garrison, with everyone escorting him, just as at Corinth and Chalcis, he continued on his way to Thessaly, where the cities not only had to be liberated, but also had to be reduced from a state of utter confusion and chaos into some tolerable form of order.
nec enim temporum modo vitiis ac violentia et licentia regia turbati erant, sed inquieto etiam ingenio gentis, nec comitia nec conventum nec concilium ullum non per seditionem ac tumultum iam inde a principio ad nostram usque aetatem traducentis.2
For they had been disturbed not only by the vices of the times and the violence and license of kings, but also by the restless disposition of a nation which, from the very beginning down to our own age, conducted neither assembly, nor meeting, nor any council without sedition and riot.
a censu maxime et senatum et iudices legit potentioremque eam partem civitatium fecit, cui salva et tranquilla omnia esse magis expediebat.3
He chose both the senate and the judges chiefly on the basis of census, and made that part of the states more powerful to which it was more advantageous that all things should be safe and tranquil.
- 34.51.1admonitosque
Grammatically a masculine plural accusative perfect participle, referring by synesis (construction according to sense) to the inhabitants of the 'Euboean cities' (Euboicarum civitatium, which is feminine). Some manuscripts read admonitas (feminine), but such constructs treating cities as their populace are typical of Livy.
- 34.51.5gentis ... traducentis
The genitive singular present participle traducentis modifies the preceding feminine genitive singular gentis. The double negation nec ... non functions as a strong affirmative ('always/without fail'), and traducere is used here in the sense of 'conducting' or 'carrying out' assemblies and councils. It functions similarly to a relative clause describing the chronic instability of the Thessalian nation.
- 34.51.6cui salva et tranquilla omnia esse magis expediebat
The subject of the impersonal verb expediebat ('it was advantageous') is the accusative and infinitive clause salva et tranquilla omnia esse ('that all things should be safe and tranquil'). The dative relative pronoun cui refers back to its antecedent eam partem (the wealthier, property-owning class of the cities who favored stability).