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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 Roman fleet under Aemilius, while heading to Chios for provisions, changes course toward Teos; on the way, they pursue pirate vessels into the steep promontory of Myonnesus but withdraw, arriving at Teos the next day.
profecti ab Samo ad petendos commeatus consumptis iam omnibus Chium parabant traicere; id erat horreum Romanis, eoque omnes ex Italia missae onerariae derigebant cursum.
Having set out from Samos to seek provisions, as everything had already been consumed, they were preparing to cross over to Chios; this was a granary for the Romans, and all the merchant vessels sent from Italy directed their course thither.
circumvecti ab urbe ad aversa insulae — obiecta aquiloni ad Chium et Erythras sunt — cum pararent traicere, litteris certior fit praetor frumenti vim magnam Chium ex Italia venisse, vinum portantes naves tempestatibus retentas esse;
Having sailed round from the city to the back of the island—which, facing north, lies opposite Chios and Erythrae—while they were preparing to cross, the praetor was informed by letter that a great quantity of grain had come to Chios from Italy, but that the ships carrying wine had been detained by storms;
simul adlatum est Teios regiae classi commeatus benigne praebuisse, quinque milia vasorum vini esse pollicitos. Teum ex medio cursu classem repente avertit, aut volentibus iis1 usurus commeatu parato hostibus, aut ipsos pro hostibus habiturus.2
at the same time word was brought that the Teians had generously furnished provisions to the royal fleet and had promised five thousand jars of wine. He suddenly diverted the fleet from its mid-course toward Teos, intending either to use, with their consent, the provisions prepared for the enemy, or to treat them themselves as enemies.
cum derexissent ad terram proras, quindecim ferme eis naves circa Myonnesum apparuerunt, quas primo ex classe regia praetor esse ratus institit sequi;
When they had directed their prows toward the land, about fifteen ships appeared to them around Myonnesus, which the praetor, thinking at first that they belonged to the royal fleet, proceeded to pursue;
apparuit deinde piraticos celoces et lembos esse. Chiorum maritimam oram depopulati cum omnis generis praeda revertentes postquam videre ex alto classem, in fugam verterunt. et celeritate superabant levioribus et ad id fabrefactis navigiis, et propiores terrae erant;
then it appeared that they were piratical swift-sailing vessels and cutters. Having plundered the maritime coast of the Chians and returning with booty of every kind, as soon as they saw the fleet from the deep, they turned to flight. They both excelled in speed, having lighter vessels built for that very purpose, and they were closer to the land;
itaque priusquam appropinquaret classis, Myonnesum perfugerunt, unde se e portu ratus abstracturum naves, ignarus loci sequebatur praetor. Myonnesus promunturium inter Teum Samumque est. ipse collis est in modum metae in acutum cacumen a fundo satis lato fastigatus; a continenti artae semitae aditum habet, a mari exesae fluctibus rupes claudunt, ita ut quibusdam locis superpendentia saxa plus in altum, quam quae in statione sunt naves, promineant.3 circa ea appropinquare non ausae naves, ne sub ictu superstantium rupibus piratarum essent, diem trivere.
and so, before the fleet could approach, they fled for refuge to Myonnesus, whence the praetor, thinking he would drag the ships out of the harbor, followed them, ignorant of the locality. Myonnesus is a promontory between Teos and Samos. The hill itself is shaped in the manner of a turning-post, tapering from a sufficiently broad base into a sharp peak; from the mainland it has an approach by a narrow path, and from the sea rocks eaten away by the waves enclose it, so that in some places the overhanging cliffs project further out in height than the ships which are at anchor. Not daring to approach around those places, lest they should be within range of the pirates standing above on the rocks, the ships wasted the day.
tandem sub noctem vano incepto cum abstitissent, Teum postero die accessere, et in portu, qui ab tergo urbis est — Geraesticum ipsi appellant —, navibus constitutis praetor ad depopulandum circa urbem agrum emisit milites.
At length toward nightfall, having desisted from their futile attempt, they approached Teos on the following day, and having stationed their ships in the harbor which is behind the city—they themselves call it Geraesticum—the praetor sent out soldiers to plunder the territory around the city.
- 37.27.3volentibus iis
An ablative absolute meaning 'with their consent' or 'if they were willing,' expressing the condition accompanying the intention of the praetor expressed by the future participle usurus ('intending to use').
- 37.27.3usurus... habiturus
Future active participles modifying the subject of the main clause, the praetor, expressing intention or purpose ('intending to use... or intending to treat'). The disjunctives aut... aut... contrast the two alternative intentions.
- 37.27.7plus in altum, quam quae in statione sunt naves, promineant
A comparative construction where quae is the subject of the relative clause 'in statione sunt' with its antecedent naves attracted into the relative clause. It means 'the overhanging rocks protruded further out in height than the ships which were at anchor [protruded],' showing the sheer overhang of the cliffs.