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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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Antiochus travels to Boeotia, where he secures an anti-Roman decree amidst their internal decline and instability. He then holds a council in Demetrias with the Aetolians, Amynander, and Hannibal to discuss how to sound out the Thessalians.
in Boeotiam ipse profectus est, causas in speciem irae adversus Romanos eas, quas ante dixi, habentem,1 Brachyllae necem et bellum a Quinctio Coroneae propter Romanorum militum caedes illatum, re vera per multa iam saecula publice privatimque labante egregia quondam disciplina2 gentis et multorum eo statu, qui diuturnus esse sine mutatione rerum non posset.
He himself set out for Boeotia, which had as the ostensible causes of its anger against the Romans those which I mentioned before, the murder of Brachylles and the war brought upon Coronea by Quinctius on account of the slaughter of the Roman soldiers, though in reality, the once excellent discipline of the nation had already for many generations been declining both publicly and privately, and the circumstances of many were in such a state as could not long endure without a revolution.
obviam effusis undique Boeotiae principibus3 Thebas venit. ibi in concilio gentis, quamquam et ad Delium impetu in praesidium Romanum facto et ad Chalcidem commiserat nec parvis nec dubiis principiis bellum, tamen eandem orationem est exorsus, qua in colloquio primo ad Chalcidem quaque per legatos in concilio Achaeorum usus erat, ut amicitiam secum institui, non bellum indici Romanis postularet. neminem, quid ageretur, fallebat;
He came to Thebes, with the leading men of Boeotia flocking from all sides to meet him. There, in the council of the nation, although he had already commenced war by no small or doubtful beginnings, both by making an attack on the Roman garrison at Delium and also at Chalcis, he nevertheless began the same speech, which he had used in his first conference at Chalcis, and which he had used through his envoys in the council of the Achaeans, requesting that friendship should be established with him, not that war should be declared against the Romans. No one was deceived as to what was being done;
decretum tamen sub leni verborum praetextu pro rege adversus Romanos factum est.
nevertheless, a decree was passed in favor of the king and against the Romans under a mild pretext of words.
hac quoque gente adiuncta Chalcidem regressus, praemissis inde litteris, ut Demetriadem convenirent principes Aetolorum, cum quibus de summa rerum deliberaret, navibus eo ad diem indictum concilio venit.
Having joined this nation also to his cause, he returned to Chalcis, and from there, having sent letters ahead that the chiefs of the Aetolians should assemble at Demetrias, with whom he might deliberate on the general state of affairs, he came thither by ship on the day appointed for the council.
et Amynander, accitus ad consultandum ex Athamania, et Hannibal Poenus, iam diu non adhibitus, interfuit ei consilio.
Both Amynander, summoned from Athamania to consult, and Hannibal the Carthaginian, who had not been admitted to council for a long time, were present at that meeting.
consultatum de Thessalorum gente est, quorum omnibus, qui aderant, voluntas temptanda videbatur.
Deliberation was held concerning the nation of the Thessalians, whose disposition it seemed to all who were present ought to be sounded.
in eo modo diversae sententiae erant, quod4 alii extemplo agendum, alii ex hieme, quae tum ferme media erat, differendum in veris principium, et alii legatos tantummodo mittendos, alii cum omnibus copiis eundum censebant terrendosque metu, si cunctarentur.
On the method of doing this there were various opinions: some thought that they should act immediately; others, that they should defer it until the beginning of spring, since winter was then about half over; some, that only envoys should be sent; others were of the opinion that they should go with all their forces, and terrify them with fear if they should hesitate.
- 36.6.1habentem
A present participle in the feminine accusative singular, modifying the preceding noun Boeotiam. It indicates that Boeotia (its territory or people) harbored ostensible reasons for anger against the Romans.
- 36.6.2labante ... disciplina
labante ... disciplina ... et ... eo statu is an ablative absolute construction. It explains the inner decay of discipline and social instability of Boeotia, in contrast to the ostensible causes (in speciem... causas) mentioned in the previous sentence.
- 36.6.3obviam effusis ... principibus
An ablative absolute construction ('with the leading men flocking out to meet him'). The adverb obviam ('to meet') modifies the past participle effusis.
- 36.6.9quod
Here it means 'namely that', introducing an explanatory or appositional clause that specifies the content of the preceding phrase diversae sententiae erant (there were various opinions). The following clauses use indirect speech with gerundives where esse is omitted.