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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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After retreating from Ephesus, Aemilius decides to attack Patara but spares Iasus due to the allies' pleading. Later, at Loryma, considering the safety of their rear and the lack of harbor capacity, he abandons the expedition and returns to Samos.
Aemilius postquam omissas in Lycia res et Livium profectum in Italiam cognovit, cum ipse ab Epheso tempestate repulsus irrito incepto Samum revertisset,1 turpe ratus temptata frustra Patara esse,2 proficisci eo tota classe et summa vi adgredi urbem statuit.
After Aemilius learned that the operations in Lycia had been abandoned and that Livius had set out for Italy—when he himself, having been driven back from Ephesus by a storm, had returned to Samos with his attempt frustrated— thinking it shameful that Patara had been attempted in vain, he decided to set out there with the entire fleet and to attack the city with the utmost force.
Miletum et ceteram oram sociorum praetervecti in Bargylietico sinu escensionem ad Iasum fecerunt. urbem regium tenebat praesidium; agrum circa Romani hostiliter depopulati sunt.
Sailing past Miletus and the rest of the allies’ coast, they made a landing at Iasus in the Bargylietic gulf. A royal garrison held the city; the Romans hostilely devastated the surrounding fields.
missis deinde, qui per colloquia principum et magistratuum temptarent animos, postquam nihil in potestate sua responderunt esse,3 ad urbem oppugnandam ducit.
Then, having sent messengers to sound out their attitudes through conversations with the leading men and magistrates, after they replied that nothing was in their power, he led his forces to besiege the city.
erant Iasensium exules cum Romanis; ii frequentes Rhodios orare institerunt, ne urbem et vicinam sibi et cognatam innoxiam perire sinerent; sibi exilii nullam aliam causam esse quam fidem erga Romanos;
Exiles of the Iasians were with the Romans; they in large numbers began to entreat the Rhodians not to allow a city, both neighboring and kindred to them, to perish innocent; they said that they had no other cause of exile than their loyalty toward the Romans;
eadem vi regiorum, qua ipsi pulsi sint, teneri eos, qui in urbe maneant; omnium Iasensium unam mentem esse, ut servitutem regiam effugerent.
that those who remained in the city were held by the same force of the royal troops by which they themselves had been expelled; and that the mind of all the Iasians was one, to escape the royal servitude.
Rhodii moti precibus Eumene etiam rege adsumpto simul suas necessitudines commemorando, simul obsessae regio praesidio urbis casum miserando pervicerunt, ut oppugnatione abstineretur.
The Rhodians, moved by their prayers, having also brought in King Eumenes, by both recalling their close ties and pitying the plight of the city besieged by the royal garrison, prevailed so that he abstained from the siege.
profecti inde pacatis ceteris cum oram Asiae legerent, Loryma — portus adversus Rhodum est — pervenerunt. ibi in principiis sermo primo inter tribunos militum secretus oritur, deinde ad aures ipsius Aemilii pervenit, abduci classem ab Epheso,4 ab suo bello, ut ab tergo liber relictus hostis in tot propinquas sociorum urbes omnia impune conari posset.
Setting out from there, having pacified the rest, as they were coasting along Asia, they reached Loryma—a harbor opposite Rhodes. There, a secret talk first arose among the military tribunes in the headquarters, and then reached the ears of Aemilius himself, to the effect that the fleet was being drawn away from Ephesus, from its own war, so that the enemy, left free from behind, could attempt everything with impunity against so many neighboring cities of the allies.
movere ea Aemilium; vocatosque Rhodios cum percontatus esset, num Pataris universa classis in portu stare posset, cum respondissent non posse, causam nactus omittendae rei5 Samum naves reduxit.
These things moved Aemilius; and when, having summoned the Rhodians, he asked whether the entire fleet could stand in the harbor at Patara, and they replied that it could not, having obtained a pretext for abandoning the undertaking, he led the ships back to Samos.
- 37.17.1cum ipse ... revertisset
The conjunction cum introduces a clause of cause or circumstance, describing the background fact that Aemilius himself had returned to Samos after his failed attempt at Ephesus, contrasting with the main clause Aemilius ... statuit.
- 37.17.2temptata frustra Patara esse
The subject of the infinitive esse is the neuter plural accusative Patara, forming an accusative and infinitive construction dependent on the participle ratus (from reor, 'to think').
- 37.17.4nihil in potestate sua esse
An accusative and infinitive construction functioning as the object of responderunt. The reflexive possessive sua refers to the subject of the clause (the leading men and magistrates of Iasus), meaning 'nothing was in their own power.'
- 37.17.9abduci classem ab Epheso
An accusative and infinitive clause in apposition to sermo (talk, rumor), explaining its content. abduci is a present passive infinitive, indicating that the fleet was being drawn away from Ephesus.
- 37.17.10causam nactus omittendae rei
omittendae rei is a gerundive construction in the genitive agreeing with rei, modifying causam, meaning 'a pretext/cause for abandoning the undertaking.'