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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 consul Marcius decided, after a council of war, on an immediate march into Macedonia, while Perseus prepared to defend the passes with garrisons.
huius generis adhortatione accensis militum animis consultare de summa gerendi belli coepit. eo et C. Marcius praetor a Chalcide classe accepta venit.
Having inflamed the minds of the soldiers with an encouragement of this kind, he began to consult on the general conduct of the war. To that place also came the praetor C. Marcius, having taken over the fleet from Chalcis.
placuit non ultra morando in Thessalia tempus terere, sed movere extemplo castra atque inde pergere in Macedoniam, et praetorem dare operam,1 ut eodem tempore classis quoque invehatur hostium litoribus.
It was resolved not to waste time by lingering any longer in Thessaly, but to move the camp immediately and from there to proceed into Macedonia, and that the praetor should take care that at the same time the fleet also should be sailed to the enemy’s coasts.
praetore dimisso consul menstruum frumentum iusso milite2 secum ferre profectus decumo post die, quam exercitum acceperat, castra movit;
The praetor having been dismissed, the consul, having ordered the soldiers to carry a month’s provisions with them, set out and moved his camp on the tenth day after he had received the army;
et unius diei progressus iter3 convocatis itinerum ducibus cum exponere in consilio iussisset, qua quisque ducturus esset, summotis iis, quam potissimum viam peteret, rettulit ad consilium.
and having advanced one day’s march, he called together the guides of the routes, and when he had ordered them to explain in council where each was intending to lead them, after dismissing them, he referred to the council which road he should preferably take.
aliis per Pythoum placebat via, aliis per Cambunios montes, qua priore anno duxerat Hostilius consul, aliis praeter Ascuridem paludem.
To some the road through Pythoum was pleasing, to others through the Cambunian mountains, where the consul Hostilius had led the army the previous year, to others past the Ascuris marsh.
restabat aliquantum viae communis; itaque in id tempus, quo prope divortium itinerum castra posituri erant, deliberatio eius rei differtur.
There remained some distance of common road; therefore, the deliberation of this matter was deferred to that time when they were about to pitch camp near the fork of the roads.
in Perrhaebiam inde ducit, et inter Azorum et Dolichen stativa habuit ad consulendum rursus, quam potissimum capesseret viam.
From there he led into Perrhaebia, and had a standing camp between Azorus and Doliche, to consult again which road he should preferably take.
per eosdem dies Perseus cum adpropinquare hostem sciret, quod iter petiturus esset, ignarus,4 omnis saltus insidere praesidiis statuit.
During those same days, Perseus, although he knew that the enemy was approaching, being ignorant of what route they were about to take, decided to occupy all the passes with garrisons.
in iugum Cambuniorum montium — Volustana ipsi vocant — decem milia levis armaturae † iuvenum cum duce Asclepiodoto mittit;
To the ridge of the Cambunian mountains — they themselves call it Volustana — he sent ten thousand light-armed young men with Asclepiodotus as commander;
ad castellum, quod super Ascuridem paludem erat — Lapathus vocatur locus —, Hippias tenere saltum cum duodecim milium Macedonum praesidio iussus.
at the fort which was above the Ascuris marsh — the place is called Lapathus — Hippias was ordered to hold the pass with a garrison of twelve thousand Macedonians.
ipse cum reliquis copiis primo circa Dium stativa habuit; deinde adeo inops consilii, ut obtorpuisse videretur, cum equitibus expeditis litore nunc Heracleum, nunc Philam percurrebat, eodem inde cursu Dium repetens.
He himself with the remaining forces at first held a standing camp around Dium; then, so utterly at a loss for a plan that he seemed to have become stupefied, he kept running with light cavalry along the shore, now to Heracleum, now to Phila, returning from there by the same course to Dium.
- 44.2.3et praetorem dare operam
An accusative with infinitive construction depending on the impersonal verb placuit from the preceding sentence (§44.2.2), with praetorem as the subject accusative and dare as the infinitive.
- 44.2.4iusso milite
An ablative absolute construction using the perfect passive participle of iubere (to order). The infinitive ferre depends on it, with milite acting as its logical subject.
- 44.2.5progressus iter
The perfect participle progressus of the deponent verb progredi has an active meaning ('having advanced') and modifies the subject consul. iter is an accusative of extent of space or a cognate accusative.
- 44.2.9quod iter petiturus esset, ignarus
The adjective ignarus (ignorant) modifies the subject Perseus and governs the indirect question clause quod...esset. The verb petiturus esset is in the future periphrastic subjunctive.
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