- Source
- 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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While rumors spread in the palace that the letters framing Demetrius were forged, Antigonus captures Xychus and brings him before King Philip. Under pressure, Xychus confesses to the conspiracy, leaving the king in even greater grief over his remaining son.
falsas esse1 et a scriba vitiatas signumque adulterinum vulgo in regia fremebant.
People in the palace were commonly muttering that the letters were false, forged by a scribe, and that the seal was counterfeit.
ceterum cum suspecta magis quam manifesta esset res, forte Xychus obvius fit Antigono, comprehensusque ab eo in regiam est perductus. relicto eo custodibus Antigonus ad Philippum processit.
However, since the matter was more suspected than proven, Xychus happened to meet Antigonus, and, having been arrested by him, was brought into the palace. Leaving him with the guards, Antigonus went on to Philip.
“multis” inquit “sermonibus intellexisse videor magno te aestimaturum,2 si scire vera omnia posses de filiis tuis, uter ab utro petitus fraude et insidiis esset.
”From many conversations,” he said, “I seem to have understood that you would value it highly if you could know the whole truth about your sons, which of them was targeted by the other with fraud and treachery.
homo unus omnium, qui nodum huius erroris exsolvere possit, in potestate tua est Xychus. forte oblatum perductumque in regiam vocari iube.”
The one man of all who can untie the knot of this error, Xychus, is in your power. Order him, who was met by chance and brought into the palace, to be summoned.”
regi adductus primo ita negare3 inconstanter, ut parvo metu admoto paratum indicem esse appareret. conspectum tortoris verberumque non sustinuit, ordinemque omnem facinoris legatorum ministeriique sui exposuit.
Brought before the king, at first he denied it so inconsistently that it was clear, once a little fear was applied, he was ready to turn informer. He could not bear the sight of the torturer and the whips, and exposed the entire course of the ambassadors’ crime and his own service.
extemplo missi, qui legatos comprehenderent, Philoclem, qui praesens erat, oppresserunt: Apelles missus ad Chaeream quendam persequendum indicio Xychi audito in Italiam traiecit.
Immediately those sent to arrest the ambassadors seized Philocles, who was present; Apelles, who had been sent to pursue a certain Chaereas, having heard of Xychus’s confession, crossed over into Italy.
de Philocle nihil certi vulgatum est: alii primo audaciter negantem, postquam in conspectum adductus sit Xychus, non ultra tetendisse,4 alii tormenta etiam infitiantem perpessum adfirmant.
Nothing certain has been made public concerning Philocles: some assert that, though at first boldly denying it, after Xychus was brought into his presence, he did not hold out any longer; others affirm that he endured even tortures, still denying it.
Philippo redintegratus est luctus geminatusque; et infelicitatem suam in liberis graviorem, quod alter superesset, censebat.
For Philip, his grief was renewed and doubled; and he considered his misfortune in respect to his children to be all the heavier because the other one survived.
- 40.55.1falsas esse
Accusative with infinitive clause where the subject accusative litteras (the letters), mentioned in the previous section (§40.54.9), is omitted.
- 40.55.3magno te aestimaturum
aestimaturum is a future infinitive with esse omitted, forming an accusative with infinitive clause with te as the subject, depending on videor. magno is an ablative of value, meaning "that you would value it highly."
- 40.55.5negare
Historical infinitive, functioning in place of an imperfect indicative (third-person singular). The subject is Xychus.
- 40.55.7non ultra tetendisse
tetendisse (perfect infinitive of tendo) here means "to hold out" or "to persist in denial." The omitted subject accusative is eum (Philocles), depending on alii [adfirmant] in indirect speech.