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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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Titus Quinctius intervenes in the Achaean siege of Messene, orders the siege to be raised, and commands the Messenians to join the league. He also demands the restoration of the island of Zacynthus to Rome and explains its historical background.
eodem tempore et Messene in Peloponneso ab Achaeis, quod concilii eorum recusaret esse,1 oppugnari coepta est. duae civitates, Messene et Elis, extra concilium Achaicum erant; cum Aetolis sentiebant.
At the same time, Messene in the Peloponnese also began to be attacked by the Achaeans, because it refused to be part of their council. Two states, Messene and Elis, were outside the Achaean council; they sympathized with the Aetolians.
Elei tamen post fugatum ex Graecia Antiochum2 legatis Achaeorum lenius responderant: dimisso praesidio regio cogitaturos se, quid sibi faciendum esset;
The Eleans, however, after Antiochus had been put to flight from Greece, had answered the legates of the Achaeans more gently: that once the royal garrison was dismissed, they would consider what they ought to do;
Messenii sine responso dimissis legatis moverant bellum, trepidique rerum suarum, cum iam ager effuso exercitu passim ureretur castraque prope urbem poni viderent, legatos Chalcidem ad T. Quinctium, auctorem libertatis, miserunt, qui nuntiarent Messenios Romanis, non Achaeis et aperire portas et dedere urbem paratos esse.
the Messenians, having dismissed the legates without a reply, had started a war, and, terrified of their own situation, when they saw that their fields were already being burned everywhere by the scattered army and that camps were being pitched near the city, they sent legates to Chalcis to Titus Quinctius, the author of liberty, to announce that the Messenians were ready both to open their gates and to surrender their city to the Romans, not to the Achaeans.
auditis legatis extemplo profectus Quinctius a Megalopoli ad Diophanen praetorem Achaeorum misit, qui extemplo reducere eum a Messene exercitum et venire ad se iuberet.
Having heard the legates, Quinctius set out immediately from Megalopolis and sent word to Diophanes, the praetor of the Achaeans, ordering him to withdraw his army from Messene immediately and come to him.
dicto paruit Diophanes et soluta obsidione expeditus ipse praegressus agmen circa Andaniam, parvum oppidum inter Megalopolim Messenenque positum, Quinctio occurrit;
Diophanes obeyed the order, and having raised the siege, he himself, light-armed, went ahead of the column and met Quinctius near Andania, a small town situated between Megalopolis and Messene;
et cum causas oppugnationis exponeret, castigatum leniter, quod tantam rem sine auctoritate sua conatus esset, dimittere exercitum iussit nec pacem omnium bono partam turbare.
and when he explained the reasons for the siege, Quinctius, having gently rebuked him because he had attempted so great an enterprise without his authority, ordered him to dismiss the army and not to disturb the peace won for the good of all.
Messeniis imperavit, ut exules reducerent et Achaeorum concilii essent; si qua haberent, de quibus aut recusare aut in posterum caveri sibi vellent, Corinthum ad se venirent;
He commanded the Messenians to recall their exiles and to be members of the Achaean council; if they had any matters about which they wished either to make an objection or to be secured for the future, they should come to him at Corinth;
Diophanen concilium Achaeorum extemplo sibi praebere iussit. ibi de Zacyntho intercepta per fraudem insula3 questus postulavit, ut restitueretur Romanis.
he ordered Diophanes to provide him with a council of the Achaeans immediately. There, complaining about Zacynthus, an island seized through fraud, he demanded that it be restored to the Romans.
Philippi Macedonum regis Zacynthus fuerat; eam mercedem Amynandro dederat, ut per Athamaniam ducere exercitum in superiorem partem Aetoliae liceret, qua expeditione fractis animis Aetolos compulit ad petendam pacem.4
Zacynthus had belonged to Philip, king of the Macedonians; he had given it to Amynander as a reward, so that he might be permitted to lead his army through Athamania into the upper part of Aetolia, by which expedition he broke the spirits of the Aetolians and compelled them to seek peace.
Amynander Philippum Megalopolitanum insulae praefecit; postea per bellum, quo se Antiocho adversus Romanos coniunxit, Philippo ad munera belli revocato Hieroclen Agrigentinum successorem misit.
Amynander appointed Philip of Megalopolis as governor of the island; afterwards, during the war in which he joined himself with Antiochus against the Romans, when Philip was recalled to the duties of war, he sent Hierocles of Agrigentum as his successor.
- 36.31.1concilii eorum recusaret esse
concilii is a genitive of possession or belonging (predicate genitive), used with esse to mean "to belong to" or "to be a member of their council." The subjunctive recusaret in the quod-clause indicates a subjective or alleged reason.
- 36.31.3post fugatum ex Graecia Antiochum
A construction of "preposition post + accusative noun + perfect passive participle," expressing the event itself: "after Antiochus had been put to flight from Greece" (the so-called ab urbe condita type construction).
- 36.31.10de Zacyntho intercepta per fraudem insula
The preposition de governs both the ablative noun Zacyntho and its appositive insula; the perfect passive participle intercepta (ablative feminine) modifies insula, meaning "concerning Zacynthus, an island seized through fraud."
- 36.31.11ad petendam pacem
A combination of the preposition ad with the accusative gerundive petendam and its agreeing noun pacem, expressing purpose ("to seek peace").