§7.9.1τότε δὲ τῷ Μετέλλῳ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ πρεσβείᾳ μὴ ὑπεριδεῖν Λακεδαιμονίων ἤρεσε καὶ Ἀχαιῶν, τοὺς δὲ τὰς ἀρχὰς ἔχοντας ἐς τὸ συνέδριον ἠξίουν συγκαλέσαι τοὺς Ἀχαιούς, ἵνα ἐν κοινῷ διδάξωσιν αὐτοὺς ἠπιώτερον μεταχειρίζεσθαι τὰ ἐν Λακεδαίμονι.
At that time, Metellus and the other embassy decided not to overlook the Lacedaemonians; and of the Achaeans, they requested those holding office to summon the Achaeans to the council, so that they might instruct them in public to handle the affairs in Lacedaemon more mildly.
οἱ δέ σφισιν ἀπεκρίναντο μήτε ἐκείνοις Ἀχαιοὺς ἐς σύλλογον μήτε ἄλλῳ συνάξειν, ὅστις μὴ ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι ἐφʼ ὅτῳ ποιεῖται τὴν πρόσοδον παρὰ τῆς Ῥωμαίων βουλῆς ἔχει δόγμα.
But they replied to them that the Achaeans would assemble a council neither for them nor for anyone else who did not possess a decree from the Roman Senate concerning the matter for which they made their approach.
Μέτελλος δὲ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν περιυβρίσθαι νομίζοντες, ἐπειδὴ ἀφίκοντο ἐς Ῥώμην, πολλὰ ἐπὶ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ οὐ τὰ πάντα ἀληθῆ κατηγόρουν τῶν Ἀχαιῶν.
Metellus and his companions, thinking they had been deeply insulted by the Achaeans, when they arrived in Rome, made many accusations against the Achaeans before the Senate, not all of them true.
§7.9.2τούτων δὲ πλείονα ἐνεκάλουν Ἀχαιοῖς Ἀρεὺς καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδας, Λακεδαιμόνιοι μὲν καὶ δόκιμοι τὰ μάλιστα ἐν τῇ Σπάρτῃ, τὰ δὲ ἐς Ἀχαιοὺς οὐ δίκαιοι· γενομένους γὰρ ὑπὸ Νάβιδος φυγάδας ὑπεδέξαντο αὐτοὺς οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ καὶ ἀποθανόντος Νάβιδος παρὰ γνώμην Λακεδαιμονίων τοῦ δήμου κατάγουσιν ἐς Σπάρτην.
But Areus and Alcibiades brought even more charges than these against the Achaeans, men who were Lacedaemonians and highly esteemed in Sparta, but unjust in their conduct toward the Achaeans; for when they had been made exiles by Nabis, the Achaeans received them, and after Nabis died, they restored them to Sparta against the will of the Lacedaemonian populace.
τότε οὖν ἀναβεβηκότες καὶ οὗτοι παρὰ τὴν βουλὴν προθυμότατα ἐνέκειντο Ἀχαιοῖς· Ἀχαιοὶ δέ σφισιν ἀπελθοῦσιν ἐπιβάλλουσιν ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ θάνατον ζημίαν.
So at that time, these men also, having gone up to the Senate, attacked the Achaeans most eagerly; and the Achaeans, in their council, imposed the death penalty upon them for having departed.
§7.9.3Ῥωμαίων δὲ ἡ βουλὴ πέμπουσιν ἄλλους τε ἄνδρας καὶ Ἄππιον Λακεδαιμονίοις καὶ Ἀχαιοῖς τὰ δίκαια ὁρίσαι.
The Roman Senate sent other men, and especially Appius, to arbitrate the rights between the Lacedaemonians and the Achaeans.
Ἄππιος δὲ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἔμελλον μὲν οὐδὲ ὀφθέντες Ἀχαιοῖς ἔσεσθαι καθʼ ἡδονήν, οἳ Ἀρέα καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδαν ἅμʼ αὐτοῖς ἐπήγοντο ἐν τῷ τότε Ἀχαιοῖς ἐχθίστους· ἐλύπησαν δὲ καὶ ἐς πλέον τοὺς Ἀχαιούς, ἐπειδὴ ἐς τὸν σύλλογον αὐτῶν ἐπελθόντες σὺν ὀργῇ μᾶλλον ἐποιοῦντο ἢ πειθοῖ τοὺς λόγους.
Appius and his companions were not likely to be pleasing to the Achaeans even at first sight, since they brought along with them Areus and Alcibiades, who were at that time most hateful to the Achaeans; and they vexed the Achaeans even further, when, coming before their assembly, they made their speeches with anger rather than persuasion.
§7.9.4Λυκόρτας δὲ ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτης, οὔτε ἀξιώματι οὐδενὸς Ἀρκάδων ὕστερος καί τι καὶ φρόνημα κατὰ φιλίαν προσειληφὼς τὴν Φιλοποίμενος, λόγῳ τε ἀπέφαινε τὰ ὑπὲρ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν δίκαια καὶ ὁμοῦ τοῖς λόγοις καὶ μέμψιν τινὰ ὑπέτεινεν ἐς τοὺς Ῥωμαίους.
But Lycortas of Megalopolis, who was second to none of the Arcadians in dignity and had also acquired a certain pride through his friendship with Philopoemen, set forth in speech the justice on behalf of the Achaeans, and together with his words, he also insinuated a certain censure against the Romans.
Ἄππιος δὲ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Λυκόρταν λέγοντα ἐποιοῦντο ἐν χλευασμῷ καὶ Ἀρέως ἀποψηφίζονται καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδα μηδὲν ἀδίκημα ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐς Ἀχαιοὺς εἶναι, Λακεδαιμονίοις τε ἀποστεῖλαι πρέσβεις ἐφιᾶσιν ἐς Ῥώμην, ἐναντία ἐφιέντες ἢ Ῥωμαίοις συγκείμενα ἦν καὶ Ἀχαιοῖς· Ἀχαιῶν μὲν γὰρ εἴρητο ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ παρὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων βουλὴν ἀπιέναι πρέσβεις, ἰδίᾳ δὲ ἀπείρητο μὴ πρεσβεύεσθαι τὰς πόλεις ὅσαι συνεδρίου τοῦ Ἀχαιῶν μετεῖχον.
But Appius and those with him held Lycortas' speech in derision, and they acquitted Areus and Alcibiades, deciding that no wrong had been committed by them against the Achaeans, and they permitted the Lacedaemonians to send ambassadors to Rome, permitting things contrary to what had been agreed between the Romans and the Achaeans; for it had been agreed that ambassadors from the Achaeans should go to the Roman Senate from the league as a whole, but it was individually forbidden for any of the cities that shared in the Achaean council to send embassies on their own.
§7.9.5ἀντιπρεσβευσαμένων δὲ καὶ Ἀχαιῶν Λακεδαιμονίοις καὶ λόγων ῥηθέντων ὑπὸ ἀμφοτέρων ἐπὶ τῆς βουλῆς, τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἀποστέλλουσιν αὖθις οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι Λακεδαιμονίοις γενέσθαι καὶ Ἀχαιοῖς δικαστάς, Ἄππιον καὶ ὅσοι σὺν ἐκείνῳ πρότερον ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἀφίκοντο.
When the Achaeans also sent a counter-embassy against the Lacedaemonians, and speeches had been made by both sides before the Senate, the Romans sent back the same men to be judges for the Lacedaemonians and the Achaeans, namely Appius and those who had previously arrived in Greece with him.
οἱ δὲ τούς τε ἐκβληθέντας ὑπὸ Ἀχαιῶν κατάγουσιν ἐς Σπάρτην καὶ ὅσων πρὸ κρίσεως ἀπελθόντων κατέγνωστο ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἀδικεῖν, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις τιμήματα ἔλυσαν· καὶ συντελείας μὲν Λακεδαιμονίους τῆς ἐς τὸ Ἀχαϊκὸν οὐκ ἀφιᾶσι, περὶ δὲ τῇ ἑκάστου ψυχῇ ξενικά σφισι διδόασιν εἶναι δικαστήρια, ὅσα δὲ ἄλλα ἐγκλήματα, λαμβάνειν τε αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀχαϊκῷ ὑπέχειν τὰς κρίσεις.
And they restored to Sparta both those who had been expelled by the Achaeans and those who, having departed before trial, had been condemned by the Achaeans for wrongdoing, and they remitted the penalties imposed on them; and although they did not release the Lacedaemonians from their contribution to the Achaean League, they granted them that for cases concerning the life of each individual, there should be foreign courts, but as for all other charges, they themselves should receive and submit to judgments within the Achaean League.
ἐτειχίσθη δὲ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὖθις Σπαρτιάταις ὁ κύκλος τοῦ ἄστεως.
And the circuit wall of the city was also built again from the foundation for the Spartans.
§7.9.6Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ οἱ κατελθόντες, βουλεύοντες παντοῖα ἐπὶ Ἀχαιοῖς, λυπήσειν σφᾶς ἐπὶ τοιῷδε μάλιστα ἤλπιζον.
But the restored Lacedaemonians, plotting all kinds of things against the Achaeans, hoped to vex them most of all by the following scheme.
Μεσσηνίους τοὺς Φιλοποίμενι θανάτου συναιτίους γενέσθαι νομισθέντας καὶ κατὰ τὴν αἰτίαν ταύτην ὑπὸ Ἀχαιῶν ἐκπεπτωκότας, τούτους τε καὶ Ἀχαιῶν αὐτῶν τοὺς φεύγοντας ἀναβῆναι πείθουσιν ἐς Ῥώμην· σὺν δέ σφισιν ἀνεληλυθότες καὶ αὐτοὶ γενέσθαι τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἔπρασσον κάθοδον.
They persuaded the Messenians who were deemed to have been accomplices in the death of Philopoemen and had been expelled by the Achaeans on this charge, and also the exiles of the Achaeans themselves, to go up to Rome; and having gone up along with them, they themselves also worked to bring about a return for these men.
ἅτε δὲ τοῦ Ἀππίου Λακεδαιμονίοις συμπροθυμουμένου μεγάλως, Ἀχαιοῖς δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀντιβαίνοντος, ἔμελλεν οὐ χαλεπῶς Μεσσηνίων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν τοῖς φεύγουσι τὰ βουλεύματα ἐς δέον χωρήσειν· γράμματά τε αὐτίκα ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς ἔς τε Ἀθήνας κατεπέμπετο καὶ ἐς Αἰτωλίαν κατάγειν σφᾶς Μεσσηνίους καὶ Ἀχαιοὺς ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα.
Since Appius was showing great eagerness on behalf of the Lacedaemonians and opposing the Achaeans in everything, the plans of the exiled Messenians and Achaeans were likely to succeed without difficulty; and letters were immediately sent down by the Senate both to Athens and to Aetolia to restore the Messenians and Achaeans to their homes.
§7.9.7τοῦτο Ἀχαιοὺς ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἠνίασεν, ὡς οὔτε ἄλλως πάσχοντας δίκαια ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων καὶ ἐς τὸ ἀνωφελὲς προϋπηργμένων σφίσιν ἐς αὐτούς, οἳ ἐπὶ τὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Αἰτωλῶν ἐναντία καὶ αὖθις Ἀντιόχου στρατεύσαντες χάριτι τῇ ἐς Ῥωμαίους ἐγίνοντο ὕστεροι φυγάδων ἀνθρώπων καὶ οὐ καθαρῶν χεῖρας· ὅμως δὲ εἴκειν σφίσιν ἐδόκει.
This vexed the Achaeans to the utmost, as they felt they were receiving no justice from the Romans in general, and that their past services to them had been rendered in vain—they who, having campaigned against Philip and the Aetolians, and again against Antiochus, out of goodwill toward the Romans, were now placed behind exiled men whose hands were not clean; nevertheless, they decided to yield.