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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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A Roman embassy is sent to Asia and the islands, and in Rhodes, persuaded by Hegesilochus, the alliance is maintained and a fleet of forty ships is prepared. Meanwhile, the commissioner Decimius returns without success, disgraced by suspicions of bribery from the Illyrian kings.
inde legatio sub idem tempus in Asiam et circum insulas missa.1
From there, around the same time, an embassy was sent to Asia and around the islands.
tres erant legati, Ti. Claudius Sp. Postumius M. Iunius. ii circumeuntes hortabantur socios ad suscipiendum adversus Persea pro Romanis bellum; et, quo quaeque opulentior civitas erat, eo accuratius agebant, quia minores secuturae maiorum auctoritatem erant.
There were three commissioners, Tiberius Claudius, Spurius Postumius, and Marcus Junius. These, as they went around, exhorted the allies to undertake the war against Perseus on behalf of the Romans; and the more opulent each state was, the more carefully they dealt with them, because the smaller states were sure to follow the authority of the greater.
Rhodii maximi ad omnia momenti2 habebantur, quia non fovere tantum, sed adiuvare etiam viribus suis bellum poterant, quadraginta navibus auctore Hegesilocho praeparatis;
The Rhodians were considered of the greatest importance for all purposes, because they were able not only to favor but also to assist the war with their own strength, forty ships having been prepared under the leadership of Hegesilochus;
qui cum in summo magistratu esset — prytanin ipsi vocant —, multis orationibus pervicerat Rhodios, ut omissa, quam saepe vanam experti essent, regum fovendorum spe Romanam societatem, unam tum in terris vel viribus vel fide stabilem, retinerent.3
Who, when he was in the highest magistracy — they themselves call it prytanis — had by many speeches persuaded the Rhodians that, abandoning the hope of favoring the kings, which they had often experienced to be vain, they should retain the Roman alliance, the only one then on earth stable either in power or in good faith.
bellum imminere4 cum Perseo; desideraturos Romanos eundem navalem apparatum, quem nuper Antiochi, quem Philippi ante bello vidissent.
War was imminent with Perseus; and the Romans would require the same naval equipment which they had seen recently in the war of Antiochus, and before that in the war of Philip.
trepidaturos tum repente paranda classe, cum mittenda esset, nisi reficere naves, nisi instruere navalibus sociis coepissent. id eo magis enixe faciundum esse, ut crimina delata ab Eumene fide rerum refellerent.
They would then be in confusion from having to prepare a fleet suddenly when it ought to be sent, unless they began to repair their ships and equip them with naval allies. This must be done the more earnestly so that they might refute by the evidence of facts the charges brought against them by Eumenes.
his incitati quadraginta navium classem instructam ornatamque legatis Romanis advenientibus, ut non expectatam adhortationem esse appareret, ostenderunt.
Excited by these words, they showed a fleet of forty ships, equipped and adorned, to the Roman commissioners upon their arrival, so that it might appear that the exhortation had not been waited for.
et haec legatio magnum ad conciliandos animos civitatium Asiae momentum fuit. Decimius unus sine ullo effectu, captarum etiam pecuniarum ab regibus Illyriorum suspicione infamis, Romam redit.
And this embassy was of great importance for winning over the minds of the states of Asia. Decimius alone returned to Rome without any success, infamous also from the suspicion of having received money from the kings of the Illyrians.
- 42.45.1missa
The past participle missa is used with the ellipsis of the auxiliary verb est to form the third-person singular perfect passive, agreeing with the feminine singular subject legatio.
- 42.45.3maximi ... momenti
A genitive of quality acting as a predicative complement to the verb habebantur ('were considered'), expressing the meaning 'of the greatest importance'.
- 42.45.4pervicerat Rhodios, ut ... retinerent
A noun clause of purpose or effort introduced by ut and dependent on pervicerat ('persuaded'). The structure is complicated by the insertion of the ablative absolute omissa ... spe ('hope having been abandoned'), which itself contains the relative clause quam ... experti essent modifying spe.
- 42.45.5bellum imminere
The beginning of an indirect discourse (oratio obliqua) continuing from multis orationibus ('by many speeches') in the previous section. Without an explicit introductory verb of saying, a series of accusative and infinitive constructions (bellum imminere, desideraturos [esse], trepidaturos [esse], faciundum esse) represents the contents of Hegesilochus' speech.