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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 returns to Macedonia, and Appius lifts the siege of Phanote and retreats, but suffers heavy losses from Cleuas's pursuit and ambush before retiring to Illyricum. Perseus continues alliance negotiations with Gentius but fails to reach an agreement due to his reluctance to spend money.
rex cum non minore vexatione iumentorum hominumque, quam venerat, in Macedoniam redit; Appium tamen ab obsidione Phanotes fama ducentis ad Stratum Persei1 summovit.
The king returned to Macedonia with no less distress of beasts and men than that with which he had come; yet the rumor of Perseus marching toward Stratus removed Appius from the siege of Phanote.
Cleuas cum praesidio inpigrorum iuvenum insecutus sub radicibus prope inviis montium ad mille hominum ex agmine inpedito occidit, ad ducentos cepit.
Cleuas, having pursued with a guard of active young men, killed near a thousand men from the encumbered column under the almost impassable foothills of the mountains, and captured nearly two hundred.
Appius superatis angustiis in campo, quem Meleona vocant, stativa dierum paucorum habuit. interim Cleuas adsumpto Philostrato, qui DC ex Epirotarum gente habebat, in agrum Antigonensem transcendit.
Appius, having overcome the narrow passes, kept a stationary camp for a few days in the plain which they call Meleona. Meanwhile Cleuas, taking with him Philostratus, who had six hundred of the Epirot nation, crossed over into the territory of Antigonea.
Macedones ad depopulationem profecti; Philostratus cum cohorte sua in insidiis loco obscuro consedit. in palatos populatores cum erupissent ab Antigonea armati, fugientes eos persequentes effusius2 in vallem insessam ab hostibus praecipitant.
The Macedonians set out to plunder; Philostratus with his cohort settled in ambush in an obscure place. When armed men from Antigonea had rushed out upon the scattered plunderers, pursuing them as they fled too loosely, they plunged headlong into the valley occupied by the enemy.
ibi DC occisis, centum ferme captis, et ubique prospere gesta re prope stativa Appi castra movent, ne qua vis sociis suis ab Romano exercitu inferri possit.
There, six hundred having been killed and nearly a hundred captured, and having conducted the affair successfully everywhere, they moved their camp near the stationary camp of Appius, lest any violence could be brought upon their allies by the Roman army.
Appius nequiquam in his locis terens tempus, dimissis Chaonum Thesprotorumque et si qui alii Epirotae erant praesidiis, cum Italicis militibus in Illyricum regressus, per Parthinorum socias urbes in hiberna militibus divisis, ipse Romam sacrificii causa redit.
Appius, wearing away time in these places in vain, having dismissed the garrisons of the Chaonians, Thesprotians, and whatever other Epirots there were, returned with the Italian soldiers into Illyricum, and having distributed the soldiers into winter quarters through the allied cities of the Parthinians, he himself returned to Rome for the purpose of performing sacrifice.
Perseus ex Penestarum gente mille pedites, ducentos equites revocatos Cassandream, praesidio ut essent, misit.
Perseus sent a thousand infantry and two hundred cavalry recalled from the nation of the Penestians to Cassandrea, to be a garrison.
ab Gentio eadem adferentes redierunt. nec deinde alios atque alios mittendo temptare eum destitit, cum appareret, quantum in eo praesidii esset, nec tamen impetrare ab animo posset, ut3 inpensam in rem maximi ad omnia momenti faceret.
Those bringing the same answers from Gentius returned. Nor did he then cease to tempt him by sending messengers one after another, since it was apparent how much of a safeguard there was in him, yet he could not bring himself to make the expenditure for a matter of the greatest importance for all things.
- 43.23.1ducentis ad Stratum Persei
Persei (genitive) agrees with the present participle ducentis (genitive masculine singular), modifying the preceding fama (nominative). The participle ducentis is used intransitively (or with an implied object like milites) in the sense of 'marching' or 'leading troops'.
- 43.23.4fugientes eos persequentes effusius
'fugientes eos' (accusative plural, the fleeing Macedonians) is the object of 'persequentes' (nominative plural, the pursuing armed men of Antigonea). 'effusius' is a comparative adverb meaning 'too loosely' or 'disorderly'. The main verb 'praecipitant' is used intransitively here ('they plunge headlong'), with the pursuers as the subject.
- 43.23.8impetrare ab animo posset, ut
'impetrare ab animo' is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to obtain (consent) from one's own mind', i.e., 'to bring oneself to do' or 'to make up one's mind'. The 'ut' clause is a noun clause acting as the object of 'impetrare'.