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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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Philopoemen, the praetor of the Achaeans, leads a decree demanding the surrender of those responsible for the attack on Las; in response, the outraged Lacedaemonians decide to renounce their alliance with the Achaeans and appeal to Rome for protection.
Philopoemen praetor, iam inde ab initio exulum causae amicus, et auctor semper Achaeis minuendi opes et auctoritatem Lacedaemoniorum, concilium querentibus dedit, decretumque referente eo factum est, cum in fidem Achaeorum tutelamque T. Quinctius et Romani Laconicae orae castella et vicos tradidissent, et, cum abstinere iis ex foedere Lacedaemonii deberent, Las vicus oppugnatus esset, caedesque ibi facta, qui eius rei auctores adfinesque essent, nisi dederentur Achaeis, violatum videri foedus.1
The praetor Philopoemen, who had been a friend to the cause of the exiles from the very beginning, and always an advocate to the Achaeans for diminishing the power and authority of the Lacedaemonians, granted an assembly to the complainants, and on his motion a decree was passed: that since T. Quinctius and the Romans had delivered the fortresses and villages of the Laconian coast into the faith and protection of the Achaeans, and, whereas the Lacedaemonians ought to have abstained from them according to the treaty, the village of Las had been attacked and a slaughter committed there, the treaty should be deemed violated unless those who were the authors and accomplices of that deed were surrendered to the Achaeans.
ad exposcendos eos legati extemplo Lacedaemonem missi sunt. id imperium adeo superbum et indignum Lacedaemoniis visum est, ut, si antiqua civitatis fortuna esset, haud dubie arma extemplo capturi fuerint.2
Ambassadors were immediately sent to Lacedaemon to demand them. This command appeared so arrogant and unworthy to the Lacedaemonians that, had the former fortune of their state remained, they would undoubtedly have taken up arms at once.
maxime autem consternavit eos metus, si semel primis imperiis oboediendo iugum accepissent, ne, id quod iam diu moliretur Philopoemen, exulibus Lacedaemonem traderet.3
But what terrified them most of all was the fear lest, if they once accepted the yoke by obeying these first commands, Philopoemen might deliver Lacedaemon to the exiles, a thing which he had already long been scheming.
furentes igitur ira triginta hominibus ex factione, cum qua consiliorum aliqua societas Philopoemeni atque exulibus erat, interfectis decreverunt renuntiandam4 societatem Achaeis legatosque extemplo Cephallaniam mittendos, qui consuli M. Fulvio quique Romanis Lacedaemonem dederent5 orarentque eum, ut veniret in Peloponnesum ad urbem Lacedaemonem in fidem dicionemque populi Romani accipiendam.
Furious with rage, therefore, after putting to death thirty men of the faction with which Philopoemen and the exiles had some association of counsels, they decreed that the alliance with the Achaeans should be renounced, and that ambassadors should be sent immediately to Cephallania to surrender Lacedaemon to the consul M. Fulvius and to the Romans, and to entreat him to come to the Peloponnesus to receive the city of Lacedaemon into the protection and dominion of the Roman people.
- 38.31.2violatum videri foedus
An indirect discourse (accusative with infinitive) depending on decretum ... factum est, where foedus is the subject accusative and violatum videri is the infinitive phrase.
- 38.31.3capturi fuerint
The apodosis of a contrary-to-fact conditional sentence occurring within a clause of result introduced by ut. Instead of the standard pluperfect subjunctive, it employs the active periphrastic conjugation consisting of the future active participle (capturi) and fuerint (perfect subjunctive of esse).
- 38.31.4metus ... ne ... traderet
A clause of fearing introduced by ne with the subjunctive traderet, depending on the noun metus ("fear lest..."). The main verb is separated from the introductory noun by the intervening si clause and the relative clause id quod....
- 38.31.5renuntiandam
A gerundive expressing obligation or necessity. It forms an accusative-with-infinitive construction with esse omitted (renuntiandam [esse] societatem), depending on decreverunt.
- 38.31.5qui ... dederent
A relative clause of purpose with the subjunctive dederent, qualifying the antecedent legatos ("ambassadors to surrender...").