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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 news of the Rhodian victory brings joy to the Romans. Antiochus attempts to turn King Prusias of Bithynia against the Romans, but letters from the Scipio brothers and the arrival of the envoy Gaius Livius reassure Prusias and secure his allegiance to Rome.
magnam Romanis laetitiam prius victoriae nuntius, deinde adventus attulit Rhodiorum;
The news of the victory first, and then the arrival of the Rhodians, brought great joy to the Romans;
et apparebat, si Rhodiis ea cura dempta fuisset, vacuos eos tuta eius regionis maria praestaturos.1 sed profectio Antiochi ab Sardibus metusque inde, ne opprimerentur maritimae urbes, abscedere custodia Ioniae atque Aeolidis prohibuerunt;2
and it was apparent that, if that care had been removed from the Rhodians, they, being unencumbered, would have rendered the seas of that region safe. But the departure of Antiochus from Sardis and the fear resulting from it, lest the maritime cities should be overwhelmed, prevented [them] from departing from the guard of Ionia and Aeolis;
Pamphilidam cum quattuor navibus tectis ad eam classem, quae circa Patara erat, miserunt.
they sent Pamphilidas with four decked ships to that fleet which was around Patara.
Antiochus non civitatium modo, quae circa se erant, contrahebat praesidia, sed ad Prusiam Bithyniae regem legatos miserat litterasque, quibus transitum in Asiam Romanorum increpabat:
Antiochus was not only drawing together garrisons from the cities which were around him, but had also sent ambassadors and a letter to Prusias, the king of Bithynia, in which he censured the passage of the Romans into Asia:
venire eos ad omnia regna tollenda, ut nullum usquam terrarum nisi Romanum imperium esset;
namely, that they were coming to destroy all kingdoms, so that there should be no empire anywhere in the world except the Roman;
Philippum, Nabim expugnatos; se tertium peti; ut quisque proximus ab oppresso sit, per omnis velut continens incendium pervasurum;
that Philippus and Nabis had been overcome; that he himself was sought as the third; that as each one was nearest to the oppressed, the fire would spread through all like a continuous conflagration;
ab se gradum in Bithyniam fore, quando Eumenes in voluntariam servitutem concessisset.
that after him the step would be into Bithynia, since Eumenes had submitted to voluntary servitude.
his motum Prusiam litterae Scipionis consulis, sed magis fratris eius Africani, ab suspicione tali averterunt, qui praeter consuetudinem perpetuam populi Romani augendi omni honore regum sociorum maiestatem, domesticis ipse exemplis Prusiam ad promerendam amicitiam suam compulit:3
From such suspicion Prusias, who had been moved by these communications, was diverted by a letter from the consul Scipio, but still more by one from his brother Africanus, who, besides the perpetual custom of the Roman people of increasing the majesty of allied kings with every honor, himself urged Prusias by domestic examples to deserve his friendship:
regulos se acceptos in fidem in Hispania reges reliquisse; Masinissam non in patrio modo locasse regno, sed in Syphacis, a quo ante expulsus fuisset, regnum imposuisse;
namely, that in Spain he had left as kings the chieftains whom he had received into alliance; that he had not only established Masinissa in his paternal kingdom, but had also placed upon him the kingdom of Syphax, by whom he had previously been expelled;
et esse eum non Africae modo regum longe opulentissimum, sed toto in orbe terrarum cuivis regum vel maiestate vel viribus parem.
and that he was not only by far the most opulent of the kings of Africa, but was equal in majesty and power to any of the kings in the whole world;
Philippum et Nabim, hostis et bello superatos ab T. Quinctio, tamen in regno relictos.
that Philippus and Nabis, though enemies and overcome in war by Titus Quinctius, had nevertheless been left in their kingdoms;
Philippo quidem anno priore etiam stipendium remissum et filium obsidem redditum; et quasdam civitates extra Macedoniam patientibus Romanis imperatoribus recepisse eum. in eadem dignitate et Nabim futurum fuisse, nisi4 eum suus primum furor, deinde fraus Aetolorum absumpsisset.
that to Philippus indeed, in the preceding year, even the tribute had been remitted and his hostage son restored; and that he had recovered certain cities outside Macedonia, with the permission of the Roman generals; and that Nabis would have been in the same dignity, had not his own madness first, and then the treachery of the Aetolians, destroyed him.
maxime confirmatus est animus regis, postquam ad eum C. Livius, qui praetor ante classi praefuerat, legatus ab Roma venit et edocuit, quanto et spes victoriae certior Romanis quam Antiocho et amicitia sanctior firmiorque apud Romanos futura esset.
The mind of the king was most especially strengthened after Gaius Livius, who had previously commanded the fleet as praetor, came to him as an ambassador from Rome and explained how much more certain the hope of victory was for the Romans than for Antiochus, and how much more sacred and firm friendship would be among the Romans.
- 37.25.2vacuos eos tuta eius regionis maria praestaturos
Accusative with infinitive construction dependent on "apparebat". "eos" (referring to the Rhodians) is the subject accusative, with "vacuos" agreeing with it in the sense of "unencumbered" or "freed from anxiety". "tuta" is a predicative accusative modifying the object "maria" ("would render the seas safe").
- 37.25.2abscedere custodia Ioniae atque Aeolidis prohibuerunt
The accusative object of "prohibuerunt" (such as "Romanos") is omitted in context. "abscedere" is the complementary infinitive ("to depart"), taking the ablative of separation "custodia Ioniae atque Aeolidis" ("from the guard of Ionia and Aeolis").
- 37.25.8ad promerendam amicitiam suam compulit
A gerundive construction expressing purpose with the preposition "ad". "promerendam" agrees in gender, number, and case with "amicitiam suam", meaning "to deserve/earn his friendship".
- 37.25.12in eadem dignitate et Nabim futurum fuisse, nisi...
The apodosis of a past contrary-to-fact conditional sentence in indirect discourse. In direct discourse, this would be "in eadem dignitate et Nabis fuisset" (subjunctive pluperfect). When converted to indirect discourse, the future active participle with "fuisse" ("futurum fuisse") is used. The protasis "nisi... absumpsisset" remains in the subjunctive pluperfect.