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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 new consul Scipio arrives in Greece and marches to Amphissa, causing the townspeople to retreat to the citadel. Although the Aetolian envoys are encouraged by Scipio Africanus's mildness, the consul insists on the original harsh terms of the senate, leaving the negotiations unresolved.
multis tamen locis decussus murus erat, cum adlatum est successorem Apolloniae1 exposito exercitu per Epirum ac Thessaliam venire.
However, the wall had been battered down in many places, when news was brought that the successor, having landed his army at Apollonia, was coming through Epirus and Thessaly.
cum tredecim milibus peditum et quingentis equitibus consul veniebat. iam in sinum Maliacum venerat; et praemissis Hypatam, qui tradere urbem iuberent, postquam nihil responsum est nisi ex communi Aetolorum decreto facturos,2 ne teneret se oppugnatio Hypatae nondum Amphissa recepta,3 praemisso fratre Africano Amphissam ducit.
The consul was coming with thirteen thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry. He had already arrived at the Malian Gulf; and after sending messengers ahead to Hypata to order them to surrender the city, when no reply was made except that they would act in accordance with the common decree of the Aetolians, lest the siege of Hypata delay him while Amphissa was not yet taken, he sent his brother Africanus ahead and led his army to Amphissa.
sub adventum eorum oppidani relicta urbe — iam enim magna ex parte moenibus nudata erat — in arcem, quam inexpugnabilem habent, omnes armati atque inermes concessere.
Upon their arrival, the townspeople abandoned the city—for indeed it had already been largely stripped of its walls—and all, both armed and unarmed, withdrew into the citadel, which they held to be impregnable.
consul sex milia fere passuum inde posuit castra. eo legati Athenienses primum ad P. Scipionem praegressum agmen, sicut ante dictum est, deinde ad consulem venerunt, deprecantes pro Aetolis.
The consul pitched his camp about six miles from there. Thither Athenian envoys came, first to Publius Scipio who had gone ahead of the column, as was mentioned before, and then to the consul, pleading on behalf of the Aetolians.
clementius responsum ab Africano tulerunt, qui causam relinquendi honeste Aetolici belli quaerens Asiam et regem Antiochum spectabat, iusseratque Athenienses non Romanis solum, ut pacem bello praeferrent, sed etiam Aetolis persuadere.4
They received a milder answer from Africanus, who, seeking a pretext for honorably abandoning the Aetolian war, was looking toward Asia and King Antiochus, and had ordered the Athenians to persuade not only the Romans but also the Aetolians to prefer peace to war.
celeriter auctoribus Atheniensibus frequens ab Hypata legatio Aetolorum venit, et spem pacis eis sermo etiam Africani, quem priorem adierunt, auxit, commemorantis5 multas gentes populosque in Hispania prius, deinde in Africa in fidem suam venisse; in omnibus se maiora clementiae benignitatisque quam virtutis bellicae monumenta reliquisse.
Promptly, at the instigation of the Athenians, a numerous embassy of Aetolians came from Hypata, and their hope of peace was further increased by the talk of Africanus, whom they approached first, as he recalled that many nations and peoples, first in Spain and then in Africa, had come under his protection, and that among them all he had left greater monuments of clemency and kindness than of military valor.
perfecta videbatur res, cum aditus consul idem illud responsum rettulit, quo fugati ab senatu erant. eo tamquam novo cum icti Aetoli essent6 — nihil enim nec legatione Atheniensium nec placido Africani responso profectum videbant —, referre ad suos dixerunt velle.
The matter seemed settled, when the consul, on being approached, returned that very same answer by which they had been dismissed by the senate. When the Aetolians were struck by this as if by a new blow—for they saw that nothing had been accomplished either by the embassy of the Athenians or by the mild response of Africanus—they said they wished to refer the matter to their people.
- 37.6.1Apolloniae
Locative of the town name Apollonia, meaning 'at Apollonia', which, together with the ablative absolute phrase exposito exercitu, indicates where the successor landed his army.
- 37.6.2facturos
Future active participle accusative masculine plural of facere, functioning as an accusative-with-infinitive construction with esse omitted (facturos esse) dependent on the impersonal passive verb responsum est. It expresses the indirect speech: '[that the citizens of Hypata] would act [in accordance with...]'.
- 37.6.2ne teneret se oppugnatio Hypatae nondum Amphissa recepta
A negative purpose clause introduced by ne ('lest the siege of Hypata delay him'). The pronoun se is reflexive and refers to the main subject of the sentence (the consul Scipio). nondum Amphissa recepta is an ablative absolute ('Amphissa not yet being taken') providing temporal and conditional context.
- 37.6.5non Romanis solum, ut pacem bello praeferrent, sed etiam Aetolis persuadere
The verb persuadere governs the dative, here modifying non Romanis solum ... sed etiam Aetolis. This infinitive depends on iusserat (with Athenienses as its subject accusative). The ut-clause (ut pacem... praeferrent) is an indirect command clause representing the substance of the persuasion.
- 37.6.6commemorantis
Present active participle in the genitive singular masculine, modifying the noun Africani ('the speech of Africanus... as he recalled'). This participle governs the subsequent accusative-and-infinitive clauses in indirect discourse (multas gentes... venisse and se... reliquisse).
- 37.6.7eo tamquam novo cum icti Aetoli essent
The demonstrative eo is an ablative of cause ('by this'). tamquam novo means 'as if by something new/unexpected', where novo is used as a neuter singular ablative substantive. cum... essent is a cum-historical subjunctive clause.