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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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Menippus, a general of Antiochus, launches a surprise attack on the off-guard Roman soldiers at Delium, killing and capturing them, which gives Rome a pretext for war. Subsequently, Antiochus takes control of Chalcis and the entire island of Euboea.
templum est Apollinis Delium, imminens mari; quinque milia passuum ab Tanagra abest; minus quattuor milium1 inde in proxima Euboeae est mari traiectus.
There is a temple of Apollo, Delium, overhanging the sea; it is five miles distant from Tanagra; from there, the crossing by sea to the nearest parts of Euboea is less than four miles.
ubi et in fano lucoque ea religione et eo iure sancto, quo sunt templa,2 quae asyla Graeci appellant, et nondum aut indicto bello aut ita commisso, ut strictos gladios aut sanguinem usquam factum audissent, cum per magnum otium milites alii ad spectaculum templi lucique versi, alii in littore inermes vagarentur, magna pars per agros lignatum pabulatumque dilapsa esset, repente Menippus palatos passim adgressus † eos cecidit, ad quinquaginta vivos cepit; perpauci effugerunt, in quibus Micythio parva oneraria nave exceptus.
At that place, within both a shrine and a sacred grove, protected by the same sanctity and holy right which belong to those temples that the Greeks call sanctuaries, and while war had not yet been declared or so far commenced that they had heard of drawn swords or blood shed anywhere, while some of the soldiers, during a time of great leisure, turned to look at the temple and the grove, others wandered unarmed on the shore, and a great part had scattered through the fields to gather wood and forage, suddenly Menippus, having attacked them scattered here and there, slew them and took about fifty alive; very few escaped, among whom was Micythio, who was taken up by a small merchant ship.
ea res Quinctio Romanisque sicut iactura militum molesta, ita ad ius inferendi Antiocho belli adiecisse aliquantum videbatur.3
This event, just as it was painful to Quinctius and the Romans as a loss of soldiers, so it seemed to have added not a little to their right of waging war against Antiochus.
Antiochus admoto ad Aulidem exercitu, cum rursus oratores partim ex suis partim Aetolos Chalcidem misisset, qui eadem illa, quae nuper, cum minis gravioribus agerent, nequiquam contra Micythione et Xenoclide tendentibus4 facile tenuit, ut portae sibi aperirentur.
Antiochus, having moved his army to Aulis, although he had again sent envoys, partly from his own men and partly Aetolians, to Chalcis, to urge those same things as recently, but with heavier threats, easily obtained that the gates should be opened to him, while Micythio and Xenoclides resisted in vain.
qui Romanae partis erant sub adventum regis urbe excesserunt. Achaeorum et Eumenis milites Salganea tenebant, et in Euripo castellum Romani milites pauci custodiae causa loci communiebant.
Those who were of the Roman party departed from the city upon the arrival of the king. The soldiers of the Achaeans and Eumenes held Salganeus, and a few Roman soldiers were fortifying a stronghold at Euripus for the protection of the place.
Salganea Menippus, rex ipse castellum Euripi oppugnare est adortus. priores Achaei et Eumenis milites pacti, ut sine fraude liceret abire, praesidio excesserunt;
Menippus began to attack Salganeus, and the king himself the stronghold of Euripus. The former, the soldiers of the Achaeans and Eumenes, having bargained that they might depart without harm, left the garrison;
pertinacius Romani Euripum tuebantur. hi quoque tamen, cum terra marique obsiderentur et iam machinas tormentaque adportari viderent, non tulere obsidionem.
the Romans defended Euripus more stubbornly. Yet they too, when they were besieged by land and sea and saw machines and engines already being brought up, did not endure the siege.
cum id, quod caput erat Euboeae, teneret rex, ne ceterae quidem insulae eius urbes imperium abnuerunt; magnoque principio sibi orsus bellum videbatur, quod tanta insula et tot opportunae urbes in suam dicionem venissent.
When the king held what was the capital of Euboea, not even the other cities of that island refused his rule; and he seemed to himself to have begun the war with a great start, because so great an island and so many convenient cities had come under his power.
- 35.51.1minus quattuor milium
The adverbial 'minus' is used without 'quam', and 'quattuor milium' (with 'passuum' understood) functions as a genitive of measure modifying 'traiectus' (crossing), meaning 'a crossing of less than four miles.'
- 35.51.2ea religione et eo iure sancto, quo sunt templa
'ea religione et eo iure sancto' are ablatives of quality modifying 'fano lucoque'. The relative pronoun 'quo' (ablative) refers back to them, with 'sunt templa' functioning as a sum-construction indicating possession ('such as temples possess').
- 35.51.5adiecisse aliquantum videbatur
Personal construction of 'videbatur' with 'ea res' as the subject: 'this event seemed to have added (adiecisse) not a little (aliquantum).' The subject of the infinitive 'adiecisse' is also 'ea res'.
- 35.51.6nequiquam contra Micythione et Xenoclide tendentibus
An ablative absolute construction with the present participle 'tendentibus' (with 'Micythione et Xenoclide' as subjects), expressing a concessive force: 'although Micythio and Xenoclides resisted in vain.'