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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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Perseus decides on war and concentrates a massive army of Macedonians and various allied and auxiliary forces at Citium, which was the largest Macedonian army since that of Alexander the Great.
Pellae, in vetere regia Macedonum, hoc consilium erat. “geramus ergo” inquit, “dis bene iuvantibus, quando ita videtur, bellum;” litterisque circa praefectos dimissis, Citium — Macedoniae oppidum est —
At Pella, in the old palace of the Macedonians, this council was held. “Let us then,” he said, “with the good help of the gods, since it seems best, wage war;” and, sending letters to the prefects in all directions, to Citium—this is a town in Macedonia—
copias omnis contrahit. ipse centum hostiis sacrificio regaliter Minervae, quam vocant Alcidemon, facto cum purpuratorum et satellitum manu profectus Citium est. eo iam omnes Macedonum et externorum auxiliorum convenerant copiae.
he gathered all his forces. He himself, after performing a royal sacrifice of a hundred victims to Minerva, whom they call Alcidemos, set out for Citium with a band of courtiers and guards. By that time, all the forces of the Macedonians and the foreign auxiliaries had assembled there.
castra ante urbem ponit omnisque armatos in campo instruxit; summa omnium quadraginta tria milia armata fuere; quorum pars ferme dimidia phalangitae erant;
He pitched camp before the city and drew up all the armed men in the plain; the total of all the armed forces was forty-three thousand, of whom nearly half were phalangites;
Hippias Beroeaeus praeerat. delecta1 deinde et viribus et robore aetatis ex omni caetratorum numero duo milia erant: agema hanc ipsi legionem vocabant; praefectos habebat Leonnatum et Thrasippum Eulyestas.
Hippias of Beroea was in command of them. Next, there were two thousand selected for their strength and vigor of age from the whole number of caetrati; they themselves called this unit the agema; it had as prefects Leonnatus and Thrasippus of Eulyestae.
ceterorum caetratorum, trium ferme milium hominum, dux erat Antiphilus Edessaeus. Paeones et ex Paroria et Parastrymonia — sunt autem ea loca subiecta Thraciae — et Agrianes, admixtis etiam Threcibus incolis, trium milium ferme et ipsi expleverant numerum.
The leader of the rest of the caetrati, about three thousand men, was Antiphilus of Edessa. The Paeonians, both from Paroria and Parastrymonia—these places are subject to Thrace—and the Agrianes, with some Thracian inhabitants mixed in, also made up a number of about three thousand.
armaverat contraxeratque eos Didas Paeon, qui adulescentem Demetrium occiderat.
Didas the Paeonian, who had killed the young Demetrius, had armed and assembled them.
et armatorum duo milia Gallorum erant; praefectus Asclepiodotus ab Heraclea ex Sintis; tria milia Threcum liberorum suum ducem habebant. Cretensium par ferme numerus suos duces sequebatur. Susum Phalasarnaeum et Syllum Gnosium.
There were also two thousand armed Gauls; their prefect was Asclepiodotus of Heraclea in Sintice; three thousand free Thracians had their own leader. An almost equal number of Cretans followed their own leaders, Susus of Phalasarna and Syllus of Cnossus.
et Leonides Lacedaemonius quingentis ex Graecia, mixto generi hominum, praeerat. regii is generis ferebatur, exul, damnatus frequenti concilio Achaeorum litteris ad Persea deprensis.2
And Leonides the Lacedaemonian was in command of five hundred men from Greece, of a mixed class of people. He was said to be of royal stock, an exile, condemned by a well-attended council of the Achaeans because of letters to Perseus having been intercepted.
Aetolorum et Boeotorum, qui non explebant plus quam quingentorum omnes numerum, Lyco Achaeus praefectus erat. ex his mixtis tot populorum, tot gentium auxiliis duodecim milia armatorum ferme efficiebantur.
Lyco the Achaean was the prefect of the Aetolians and Boeotians, who all together did not make up a number of more than five hundred. From these mixed auxiliaries of so many peoples and so many nations, about twelve thousand armed men were made up.
equitum ex tota Macedonia contraxerat tria milia. venerat eodem Cotys, Seuthis filius, rex gentis Odrysarum, cum mille delectis equitibus, pari ferme peditum numero.
He had collected three thousand cavalry from the whole of Macedonia. To the same place had come Cotys, son of Seuthes, king of the nation of the Odrysae, with a thousand selected horsemen, and an almost equal number of infantry.
ita summa totius exercitus triginta novem milia peditum erant, quattuor equitum. satis constabat, secundum3 eum exercitum, quem magnus Alexander in Asiam traiecit, numquam ullius Macedonum regis copias tantas fuisse.
Thus, the total of the whole army was thirty-nine thousand infantry and four thousand cavalry. It was well established that, next to that army which Alexander the Great led across into Asia, the forces of any Macedonian king had never been so great.
- 42.51.4delecta
The perfect participle delecta is in the neuter plural nominative to agree with the neuter plural noun milia, despite logically referring to male soldiers.
- 42.51.8litteris ad Persea deprensis
This is an ablative absolute ('letters to Perseus having been intercepted') which expresses the cause or ground for damnatus ('condemned').
- 42.51.11secundum
Used as a preposition taking the accusative (eum exercitum) meaning 'next after' or 'second to', indicating that the army was second in size only to that of Alexander the Great.