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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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Envoys from King Perseus arrive in Rome but are rejected by the senate and ordered to leave Italy immediately. Meanwhile, Sicinius crosses into Epirus and stations garrisons in local strongholds at the inhabitants' request.
per idem tempus legati ab rege Perseo venerunt. eos in oppidum intromitti non placuit, cum iam bellum regi eorum et Macedonibus et senatus decresset et populus iussisset.
About the same time, ambassadors came from King Perseus. It was decided not to admit them into the city, since both the senate had already decreed and the people had ordered war against their king and the Macedonians.
in aedem Bellonae in senatum introducti ita verba fecerunt: mirari Persea regem, quid in Macedoniam exercitus transportati essent;
Having been introduced into the senate in the temple of Bellona, they spoke as follows: that King Perseus wondered why armies had been transported into Macedonia;
si impetrari a senatu posset, ut ii revocentur,1 regem de iniuriis, si quas sociis factas quererentur, arbitratu senatus satisfacturum esse.
if it could be obtained from the senate that they should be recalled, the king would, according to the judgment of the senate, make satisfaction for any injuries, if they complained of any having been done to the allies.
Sp. Carvilius, ad eam ipsam rem ex Graecia remissus ab Cn. Sicinio, in senatu erat. is Perrhaebiam expugnatam armis, Thessaliae aliquot urbes captas, cetera, quae aut ageret aut pararet rex, cum argueret, respondere ad ea legati iussi.
Spurius Carvilius, who had been sent back from Greece by Gnaeus Sicinius for this very purpose, was in the senate. When he accused the king of having taken Perrhaebia by force of arms, of having captured several cities of Thessaly, and of other things which he was either doing or preparing, the ambassadors were ordered to answer to these charges.
postquam haesitabant, negantes sibi ultra quidquam mandatum esse, iussi renuntiare regi, consulem P. Licinium brevi cum exercitu futurum in Macedonia esse:
When they hesitated, saying that nothing further had been commissioned to them, they were ordered to report to the king that the consul Publius Licinius would soon be in Macedonia with an army;
ad eum, si satisfacere in animo esset, mitteret legatos. Romam quod praeterea mitteret, non esse;2 nemini enim eorum per Italiam ire liciturum.
to him he should send ambassadors, if he had it in mind to make satisfaction. There was no reason for him to send any further to Rome; for none of them would be allowed to travel through Italy.
ita dimissis P. Licinio consuli mandatum, ut intra undecimum diem iuberet eos Italia excedere, et Sp. Carvilium mitteret, qui, donec navem conscendissent, custodiret.
After they were thus dismissed, the consul Publius Licinius was ordered to command them to depart from Italy within eleven days, and to send Spurius Carvilius to watch them until they had embarked.
haec Romae acta nondum profectis in provinciam consulibus. iam Cn. Sicinius, qui, priusquam magistratu abiret, Brundisium ad classem et ad exercitum praemissus erat, traiectis in Epirum quinque milibus peditum, trecentis equitibus, ad Nymphaeum in agro Apolloniati castra habebat.
These things were done at Rome before the consuls set out for their province. Already Gnaeus Sicinius, who, before he resigned his office, had been sent ahead to Brundisium to the fleet and the army, had crossed over into Epirus with five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry, and was encamped at Nymphaeum in the territory of Apollonia.
inde tribunos cum duobus milibus militum ad occupanda Dassaretiorum et Illyriorum castella, ipsis accersentibus praesidia,3 ut tutiores a finitimorum impetu Macedonum essent, misit.
From there he sent tribunes with two thousand soldiers to occupy the strongholds of the Dassaretii and Illyrians, at the request of the inhabitants themselves for garrisons, so that they might be safer from the attacks of their neighboring Macedonians.
- 42.36.3ut ii revocentur
Although the main verb of the conditional clause is in the past tense (posset), the present subjunctive (revocentur) is used in the subordinate clause. This is an instance of repraesentatio, retaining the present tense of the original direct speech to bring vividness to the indirect discourse.
- 42.36.6Romam quod praeterea mitteret, non esse
The subject of non esse (such as nihil) is omitted, and the relative clause quod praeterea mitteret (with the subjunctive of purpose or characteristic) modifies this omitted subject. The entire phrase translates as 'there was nothing further for him to send to Rome.'
- 42.36.9ipsis accersentibus praesidia
An ablative absolute construction where ipsis refers back to Dassaretiorum et Illyriorum. It indicates that the inhabitants themselves were summoning the garrisons (praesidia), showing that the occupation was at the request of the locals rather than a unilateral Roman military action.