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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 consul Manius Acilius arrives in Greece to take command, coordinating with King Philip to capture Pellinaeum and subdue Athamania. The Roman army then advances further, taking control of Crannon, Thaumaci, and other surrounding towns, firmly establishing their dominance in Thessaly.
per eos forte dies M’. Acilius consul cum viginti milibus peditum, duobus milibus equitum, quindecim elephantis mari traiecto pedestris copias Larisam ducere tribunos militum iussit; ipse cum equitatu Limnaeum ad Philippum venit.
About those same days, the consul Manius Acilius, having crossed the sea with twenty thousand infantry, two thousand cavalry, and fifteen elephants, ordered the military tribunes to lead the infantry forces to Larisa; he himself with the cavalry came to Philip at Limnaeum.
adventu consulis deditio sine cunctatione est facta, traditumque praesidium regium et cum iis Athamanes.
At the arrival of the consul, surrender was made without delay, and the royal garrison was delivered up, and with them the Athamanes.
ab Limnaeo Pellinaeum consul proficiscitur. ibi primi Athamanes tradiderunt sese, deinde et Philippus Megalopolitanus;
From Limnaeum the consul set out for Pellinaeum. There the Athamanes surrendered themselves first, and then also Philip of Megalopolis;
cui decedenti praesidio1 cum obvius forte fuisset Philippus rex, ad ludibrium regem eum consalutari iussit, ipse congressus fratrem haud sane decoro maiestati suae ioco appellavit.
when King Philip happened to meet him as he was departing from the garrison, he ordered him to be saluted as ‘king’ in mockery, and coming up himself, addressed him as ‘brother’ with a jest by no means becoming to his own majesty.
deductus inde ad consulem custodiri iussus est et haud ita multo post in vinculis Romam missus. cetera multitudo Athamanum aut militum Antiochi regis, quae in praesidiis deditorum per eos dies oppidorum fuerat, Philippo tradita regi est; fuere autem ad quattuor milia hominum.
Led thence to the consul, he was ordered to be guarded, and not so long after was sent in chains to Rome. The remaining multitude of the Athamanes or of the soldiers of King Antiochus, who had been in the garrisons of the towns surrendered during those days, was delivered to King Philip; now they amounted to about four thousand men.
consul Larisam est profectus, ibi de summa belli consultaturus. in itinere ab Cierio et Metropoli legati tradentes urbes suas occurrerunt.
The consul set out for Larisa, there to consult on the general conduct of the war. On his march, ambassadors from Cierium and Metropolis met him, delivering up their cities.
Philippus Athamanum praecipue captivis indulgenter habitis, ut per eos conciliaret gentem, nactus spem Athamaniae potiendae exercitum eo duxit praemissis in civitates captivis.
Philip, having treated the prisoners, especially the Athamanes, with indulgence, so that through them he might win over the nation, having gained hope of possessing Athamania, led his army thither, having sent the prisoners ahead into the cities.
et illi magnam auctoritatem apud populares habuerunt, clementiam erga se regis munificentiamque commemorantes, et Amynander, cuius praesentis maiestas aliquos in fide continuisset,2 veritus, ne traderetur Philippo iam pridem hosti et Romanis merito tunc propter defectionem infensis, cum coniuge ac liberis regno excessit Ambraciamque se contulit; ita Athamania omnis in ius dicionemque Philippi concessit.
And they had great influence among their countrymen, recounting the clemency and munificence of the king toward them, and Amynander, whose presence and majesty might have kept some in their allegiance, fearing lest he should be delivered to Philip, long his enemy, and to the Romans, who were then deservedly angry on account of his defection, departed from his kingdom with his wife and children and went to Ambracia; thus all Athamania passed under the law and dominion of Philip.
consul ad reficienda maxime iumenta, quae et navigatione et postea itineribus fatigata erant, paucos Larisae moratus dies, velut renovato modica quiete exercitu Crannonem est progressus.
The consul, having delayed a few days at Larisa, chiefly to recruit the beasts of burden, which were fatigued both by the voyage and afterwards by the marches, set forward to Crannon with his army, as if refreshed by a moderate rest.
venienti Pharsalus et Scotusa et Pherae quaeque in eis praesidia Antiochi erant deduntur. ex iis interrogatis, qui manere secum vellent, mille volentis3 Philippo tradit, ceteros inermes Demetriadem remittit.
As he approached, Pharsalus, Scotusa, Pherae, and the garrisons of Antiochus that were in them, were surrendered. Having asked them which of them wished to remain with him, he delivered one thousand who wished to Philip, and sent back the rest unarmed to Demetrias.
Proernam inde recepit et quae circa eam castella erant. ducere tum porro in sinum Maliacum coepit. appropinquanti4 faucibus, super quas siti Thaumaci sunt, deserta urbe iuventus omnis armata silvas et itinera insedit et in agmen Romanum ex superioribus locis incursavit.
Thence he recovered Proerna and the forts that were around it. He then began to lead his army further into the Malian gulf. As he approached the pass, above which Thaumaci is situated, all the armed youth, leaving the city, occupied the woods and roads and made incursions into the Roman column from the higher grounds.
consul primo misit, qui ex propinquo colloquentes deterrerent eos a tali furore; postquam perseverare in incepto vidit, tribuno cum duorum signorum militibus circummisso interclusit ad urbem iter armatis, vacuamque eam cepit.
The consul at first sent men to parley from near at hand and deter them from such madness; when he saw that they persevered in their attempt, having sent a tribune around with the soldiers of two standards, he cut off the road to the city for the armed men, and took it empty.
tum clamore ab tergo captae urbis audito refugientium undique ex silvis insidiatorum caedes facta est.
Then, hearing the shout from the rear of the captured city, a slaughter of the ambushers, who were fleeing in all directions from the woods, was made.
ab Thaumacis altero die consul ad Spercheum amnem pervenit, inde Hypataeorum agros vastavit.
On the next day from Thaumaci, the consul arrived at the river Spercheus, and from there he ravaged the lands of the Hypataeans.
- 36.14.4cui decedenti praesidio
The dative 'cui' (referring to Philip of Megalopolis in the preceding sentence) is governed by the adjective 'obvius'. 'decedenti' is a present participle, and 'praesidio' is an ablative of separation, meaning 'as he was departing from the garrison'.
- 36.14.9cuius praesentis maiestas aliquos in fide continuisset
The genitive of the relative pronoun 'cuius' combined with the participle 'praesentis' functions as a protasis ('if he had been present, his majesty'), forming a contrary-to-fact conditional sentence with the pluperfect subjunctive 'continuisset' in the apodosis.
- 36.14.11volentis
An archaic or Livian accusative plural ending '-is' (instead of '-es') for i-stem participles/adjectives. It represents 'volentes', functioning substantively in apposition to 'mille' (one thousand who wished).
- 36.14.12appropinquanti
A dative of the present participle (the implied subject being 'consuli', the consul). It functions as a dative of reference or a dative of time/circumstance, indicating when the action occurred.