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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 partition of Macedonia announced at the assembly evoked mixed feelings. The author details the geographical features, major cities, and the character of the inhabitants of the four regions.
haec pronuntiata primo die conventus varie adfecerunt animos. libertas praeter spem data adrexit et levatum annuum vectigal;1
These announcements on the first day of the assembly affected their minds in various ways. The freedom granted contrary to expectation encouraged them, as did the reduction of the annual tribute;
regionatim commercio interruptis2 ita videri lacerata Macedonia, tamquam animali in artus alterum alterius indigentis distracto:3 adeo, quanta Macedonia esset, quam divisui facilis, quam se ipsa quaeque contenta pars esset, Macedones quoque ignorabant.
but with trade interrupted region by region, Macedonia seemed so mangled, as if an animal had been torn into limbs that needed one another: so true was it that even the Macedonians did not know how large Macedonia was, how easy it was to divide, and how self-sufficient each part was.
pars prima Bisaltas habet, fortissimos viros — trans Nessum amnem incolunt et circa Strymonem —, et multas frugum proprietates et metalla et opportunitatem Amphipolis, quae obiecta claudit omnes ab oriente sole in Macedoniam aditus.
The first part has the Bisaltae, most courageous men—they dwell beyond the Nessus river and around the Strymon—and many specialties of crops, mines, and the advantageous location of Amphipolis, which, standing in the way, closes all accesses into Macedonia from the rising sun.
secunda pars celeberrimas urbes Thessalonicen et Cassandream habet, ad hoc Pallenen, fertilem ac frugiferam terram; maritimas quoque opportunitates ei praebent portus ad Toronen ac montem Atho Aeneamque et Acanthum, alii ad Thessaliam insulamque Euboeam, alii ad Hellespontum opportune versi.
The second part has the very famous cities of Thessalonica and Cassandrea, and in addition Pallene, a fertile and productive land; harbors also offer naval opportunities to it, facing toward Torone, Mount Athos, Aenea, and Acanthus, some turned conveniently toward Thessaly and the island of Euboea, others toward the Hellespont.
tertia regio nobilis urbes Edessam et Beroeam et Pellam habet et Vettiorum bellicosam gentem, incolas quoque permultos Gallos et Illyrios, inpigros cultores.
The third region has the noble cities of Edessa, Beroea, and Pella, and the warlike nation of the Vettii, and also very many Gallic and Illyrian inhabitants, industrious cultivators.
quartam regionem Eordaei et Lyncestae et Pelagones incolunt;
The fourth region is inhabited by the Eordaei, Lyncestae, and Pelagones;
iuncta his Atintania et Tymphaeis et Elimiotis. frigida haec omnis duraque cultu4 et aspera plaga est; cultorum quoque ingenia terrae similia habet. ferociores eos et accolae barbari faciunt, nunc bello exercentes, nunc in pace miscentes ritus suos.
joined to these are Atintania, Tymphaeis, and Elimiotis. This entire tract is cold, difficult to cultivate, and rugged; it has also the dispositions of its cultivators similar to the land. The neighboring barbarians also make them more fierce, now training them in war, now mixing their own rites in peace.
divisa itaque Macedonia partium usibus separatis, quanta universa esset, ostendit.
Thus Macedonia, being divided with the utilities of its parts separated, showed how great it had been as a whole.
- 45.30.1libertas praeter spem data adrexit et levatum annuum vectigal
The verb adrexit (perfect of erigo, meaning "to encourage" or "to cheer up") takes both libertas data and levatum vectigal as its subjects, while its object is the word animos (minds, spirits) supplied from the preceding sentence. The phrase levatum ... vectigal functions as a noun-participle construction representing the action or event ("the reduction of the tribute").
- 45.30.2regionatim commercio interruptis
The word interruptis is a plural ablative participle. While some editions emend this to commercio interrupto (singular ablative absolute, "with trade interrupted"), keeping the transmitted reading implies an ablative absolute with an implied noun like regionibus ("with the regions having their trade interrupted"), or "by the regions, their trade having been cut off."
- 45.30.2tamquam animali in artus alterum alterius indigentis distracto
animali ... distracto forms an ablative absolute ("as if an animal were torn apart"). indigentis is the accusative plural (using the archaic -is ending instead of -es) of the present participle indigens, modifying the fourth-declension accusative plural artus ("into limbs that need one another").
- 45.30.7duraque cultu
cultu is the ablative singular of the fourth-declension noun cultus (cultivation, tillage), functioning as an ablative of specification (or equivalent to a second supine) limiting the adjective dura ("difficult to cultivate" or "harsh in respect to tillage").