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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 envoys deliver an intermediate response to King Philip's speech, cementing his hostility toward Rome. Meanwhile, in Rome, the proconsul Manius is granted an ovation upon returning from Spain, and a slave insurrection is suppressed in Apulia.
movit aliquantum oratio regis legatos. itaque medio responso rem suspenderunt: si decem legatorum decreto Eumeni datae civitates eae essent, nihil se mutare;
The king’s speech moved the envoys to some extent. Therefore, they left the matter in suspense with an intermediate response: if those cities had been given to Eumenes by the decree of the ten commissioners, they would change nothing;
si Philippus bello cepisset eas, praemium victoriae iure belli habiturum;1 si neutrum eorum foret, cognitionem placere senatui reservari et, ut omnia in integro manerent, praesidia, quae in iis urbibus sint, deduci.
if Philip had captured them in war, he would hold them as the reward of victory by the right of war; if neither of these should be the case, it was the pleasure of the senate that the inquiry be reserved for themselves, and, in order that everything might remain as it was, the garrisons which were in those cities should be withdrawn.
hae causae maxime animum Philippi alienaverunt ab Romanis, ut non a Perseo filio eius novis causis motum,2 sed ob has a patre bellum relictum filio videri possit.
These causes alienated the mind of Philip from the Romans in the highest degree, so that the war might seem not to have been provoked by his son Perseus for new causes, but to have been left by the father to his son on account of these.
Romae nulla Macedonici belli suspicio erat. L. Manlius proconsul ex Hispania redierat; cui3 postulanti ab senatu in aede Bellonae triumphum rerum gestarum magnitudo impetrabilem faciebat;
In Rome there was no suspicion of a Macedonian war. Lucius Manlius, the proconsul, had returned from Spain; when he petitioned the senate in the temple of Bellona for a triumph, the magnitude of his achievements made it obtainable;
exemplum obstabat, quod ita comparatum more maiorum erat, ne quis,4 qui exercitum non deportasset, triumpharet, nisi perdomitam pacatamque provinciam tradidisset successori. medius tamen honos Manlio habitus, ut ovans urbem iniret.
precedent stood in the way, because it had been so established by the custom of the ancestors that no one who had not brought back his army should triumph, unless he had delivered up a thoroughly conquered and pacified province to his successor. Nevertheless, a middle honor was granted to Manlius, that he should enter the city in ovation.
tulit coronas aureas quinquaginta duas, auri praeterea pondo centum triginta duo, argenti sedecim milia trecenta, et pronuntiavit in senatu decem milia pondo argenti et octoginta auri Q. Fabium quaestorem advehere: id quoque se in aerarium delaturum. Magnus motus servilis eo anno in Apulia fuit.
He carried fifty-two golden crowns, and besides, one hundred and thirty-two pounds of gold, sixteen thousand three hundred pounds of silver; and he announced in the senate that Quintus Fabius, the quaestor, was bringing ten thousand pounds of silver and eighty of gold, which he also would deliver into the treasury. There was a great slave insurrection that year in Apulia.
Tarentum provinciam L. Postumius praetor habebat.
Lucius Postumius, the praetor, had Tarentum as his province.
is de pastorum coniuratione, qui vias latrociniis pascuaque publica infesta habuerant, quaestionem severe exercuit. ad septem milia hominum condemnavit: multi inde fugerunt, de multis sumptum est supplicium.
He conducted a severe investigation into a conspiracy of shepherds, who had infested the roads with robberies and the public pastures. He condemned up to seven thousand men; many fled from there, and on many punishment was inflicted.
consules diu retenti ad urbem dilectibus tandem in provincias profecti sunt.
The consuls, having been detained for a long time at the city by the levies, at last set out for their provinces.
- 39.29.2habiturum
Accusative with infinitive in indirect speech (active future habiturum esse with esse omitted). The subject accusative Philippum is easily supplied from the subject of the conditional clause si Philippus.
- 39.29.3motum
An accusative with infinitive clause within the ut consecutive clause (ut ... videri possit). motum stands for the perfect passive infinitive motum esse with esse omitted, and its subject is the subsequent bellum. Similarly, relictum stands for relictum esse.
- 39.29.4cui
The relative connection (connecting relative). It refers back to L. Manlius in the preceding sentence, connecting the clauses as 'and when he...'. It is in the dative case agreeing with the present participle postulanti, relating to impetrabilem faciebat (made it obtainable for him).
- 39.29.5ne quis
A combination of ne (introducing a negative purpose or noun clause) and the indefinite pronoun quis (shortened form of aliquis), meaning 'lest anyone' or 'that no one'. Here it introduces a noun clause defining the contents of quod ita comparatum more maiorum erat (it had been so established by the custom of the ancestors).