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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 number of colonists in Aquileia is increased, and the Roman envoys in Greece publicize a senatorial decree across the Peloponnese, subsequently assessing and mediating the situations in Achaea, Aetolia, and Acarnania before returning to Hostilius in Larisa.
eo anno postulantibus Aquileiensium legatis, ut numerus colonorum augeretur, mille et quingentae familiae ex senatus consulto scriptae triumvirique, qui eas deducerent, missi sunt T. Annius Luscus, P. Decius Subulo, M. Cornelius Cethegus.
In that year, at the request of the envoys from Aquileia that the number of colonists should be increased, fifteen hundred families were enrolled by a decree of the senate, and triumvirs were sent to conduct them, namely, Titus Annius Luscus, Publius Decius Subulo, and Marcus Cornelius Cethegus.
eodem anno C. Popilius et Cn. Octavius legati, qui in Graeciam missi erant, senatus consultum Thebis primum recitatum per omnes Peloponnesi urbes circumtulerunt, ne quis ullam rem in bellum magistratibus Romanis conferret, praeterquam quod senatus censuisset.
In the same year, Gaius Popilius and Gnaeus Octavius, the envoys who had been sent to Greece, carried around through all the cities of the Peloponnese the decree of the senate which had been first read at Thebes, to the effect that no one should contribute anything for the war to the Roman magistrates, except what the senate had decided.
hoc fiduciam in posterum quoque praebuerat, levatos se1 oneribus inpensisque, quibus, alia aliis inperantibus, exhauriebantur.
This had also inspired confidence for the future, because they were relieved of the burdens and expenses by which they were being exhausted while various men were demanding different things.
Achaico concilio Aegi iis dato benigne locuti auditique, egregia spe futuri status fidissima gente relicta, in Aetoliam traiecerunt.
An Achaean council having been granted to them at Aegium, they spoke and were heard in a friendly manner, and leaving this most loyal nation with excellent hopes for their future status, they crossed over into Aetolia.
ibi nondum quidem seditio erat, sed omnia suspecta criminumque inter ipsos plena;
There, indeed, sedition had not yet broken out, but everything was suspicious and full of mutual accusations among them;
ob quae obsidibus postulatis neque exitu rei inposito in Acarnaniam inde profecti legati sunt.
for which reasons, after hostages had been demanded and no conclusion had been put to the business, the envoys set out from there into Acarnania.
Thyrrei concilium legatis Acarnanes dederunt. ibi quoque inter factiones erat certamen: quidam principum postulare,2 ut praesidia in urbes suas inducerentur adversus amentiam eorum, qui ad Macedonas gentem trahebant;
The Acarnanians granted a council to the envoys at Thyrreum. There also was a struggle between factions: some of the leading men demanded that garrisons should be introduced into their cities against the madness of those who were dragging the nation to the Macedonians;
pars recusare, ne, quod bello captis et hostibus mos esset, id pacatae et sociae civitates ignominiae acciperent.3
others refused, lest peaceful and allied states should receive as a disgrace that which was the custom for those captured in war and for enemies.
iusta deprecatio haec visa. Larisam ad Hostilium proconsulem — ab eo enim missi erant — legati redierunt.
This deprecation seemed just. The envoys returned to Larisa to the proconsul Hostilius—for they had been sent by him.
Octavium retinuit secum, Popilium cum mille ferme militibus in hiberna Ambraciam misit.
He retained Octavius with him, and sent Popilius with about a thousand soldiers to Ambracia for winter quarters.
- 43.17.3levatos se
The auxiliary verb esse is omitted after levatos, forming an infinitive clause (levatos esse) in apposition to the noun fiduciam. se is the subject accusative of the infinitive, referring back to the inhabitants of the Peloponnesian cities.
- 43.17.7postulare
A historical infinitive (infinitivus historicus), equivalent in sense to the imperfect indicative (postulabant). Its subject is the nominative quidam principum. The same construction is found in recusare in the next sentence.
- 43.17.8ignominiae acciperent
The noun ignominiae is a dative of purpose (dativus finis) used with acciperent, which has id (the antecedent to the clause quod...) as its direct object, forming a double-dative-like construction meaning 'should receive it as a disgrace.'