§30.32.1ὅτι μετά τινα χρόνον εἰσῆλθον οἱ παρὰ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν πρέσβεις, ἔχοντες ἐντολὰς ἀκολούθως ταῖς ἀποκρίσεσιν, αἷς πρότερον ἔλαβον· §30.32.2αὗται δʼ ἦσαν διότι θαυμάζουσιν πῶς, ὑπὲρ ὧν αὐτοὶ κεκρίκασι, περὶ τούτων αὐτοὺς παρακαλοῦσιν κρίνειν.
After some time, the ambassadors from the Achaeans entered, having instructions in accordance with the answers which they had previously received; and these answers were to the effect that they (the Romans) wondered how, concerning those things which they themselves had already decided, they (the Achaeans) should entreat them (the Romans) to judge.
§30.32.3διὸ τότε παρῆσαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Εὐρέαν, πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐμφανίζοντες διότι τὸ μὲν ἔθνος οὔτε δικαιολογουμένων ἀκήκοε τῶν κατῃτιαμένων οὔτε κρίσιν οὐδεμίαν πεποίηται περὶ αὐτῶν, §30.32.4τὴν δὲ σύγκλητον ἀξιοῖ πρόνοιαν ποιήσασθαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἵνα κρίσεως τύχωσι καὶ μὴ καταφθαρῶσιν ἄκριτοι, §30.32.5καὶ μάλιστα μὲν αὐτὴν ἐξετάσασαν διασαφῆσαι τοὺς ἐνόχους ὄντας τοῖς ἐγκλήμασιν· εἰ δὲ διὰ τοὺς περισπασμοὺς αὐτὴ μὴ δύναται τοῦτο ποιῆσαι, τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς ἐπιτρέψαι περὶ τοῦ πράγματος. οἳ πειράσονται μισοπονήρως χρήσασθαι τοῖς αἰτίοις.
Therefore at that time Eureas and his colleagues were present, showing again from the beginning that the nation had neither heard the defense of the accused nor made any judgment concerning them, and that it requested the Senate to take thought for the men, so that they might obtain a trial and not be destroyed without trial, and best of all, that the Senate itself, having investigated, should declare those who were guilty of the charges; but if because of other distractions it could not itself do this, to entrust the matter to the Achaeans, who would endeavor to deal with the guilty with a hatred of wickedness.
§30.32.6ἡ δὲ σύγκλητος διακούσασα τῶν πρεσβευτῶν, ἀκολούθως ταῖς ἐντολαῖς διαλεγομένων, καὶ δυσχρηστοῦσα διὰ τὸ πανταχόθεν ἐξελέγχεσθαι· §30.32.7τό τε γὰρ κρίνειν οὐκ ἐνόμιζεν αὑτῇ καθήκειν, τό τε χωρὶς κρίσεως ἀπολύειν τοὺς ἄνδρας πρόδηλον ἔχειν ἐδόκει τὸν ὄλεθρον τοῖς φίλοις αὐτῶν· §30.32.8διόπερ ἀναγκαζομένη καὶ βουλομένη παρελέσθαι καθόλου τὴν ἐλπίδα τῶν πολλῶν ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν κατεχομένων σωτηρίας, ἵνα συμμύσαντες πειθαρχῶσιν ἐν μὲν Ἀχαΐᾳ τοῖς περὶ τὸν Καλλικράτην, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις πολιτεύμασι τοῖς δοκοῦσιν εἶναι Ῥωμαίων, ἔγραψαν ἀπόκρισιν τοιαύτην, §30.32.9ὅτι ἡμεῖς οὐχ ὑπολαμβάνομεν συμφέρειν οὔτε τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις οὔτε τοῖς ὑμετέροις δήμοις τούτους τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐπανελθεῖν εἰς οἶκον. §30.32.10ταύτης δὲ τῆς ἀποκρίσεως ἐκπεσούσης, οὐ μόνον περὶ τοὺς ἀνακεκλημένους ἐγένετό τις ὁλοσχερὴς ἀθυμία καὶ παράλυσις τῆς ψυχῆς, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοὺς Ἕλληνας ὡσανεὶ κοινόν τι πένθος, ἅτε δοκούσης τῆς ἀποκρίσεως ὁλοσχερῶς ἀφαιρεῖσθαι τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς σωτηρίας τῶν ἀκληρούντων.
But the Senate, having heard the ambassadors, who spoke in accordance with their instructions, and being in difficulty because of being refuted on all sides; for on the one hand it did not think that judging belonged to itself, and on the other hand, to release the men without trial seemed to bring clear ruin to their own friends; therefore, being compelled and wishing to deprive the multitude entirely of their hope for the safety of those who were detained, so that, shutting their eyes [submissively], they might obey Callicrates and his party in Achaea, and in the other states those who seemed to belong to the Romans, they wrote such an answer: "We do not suppose that it is advantageous either to the Romans or to your peoples for these men to return home." And when this answer was published, there arose not only among those who had been summoned a complete dejection and paralysis of the soul, but also among the Greeks as it were a kind of common mourning, since the answer seemed to take away entirely the hope of safety for the unfortunate ones.
§30.32.11κατὰ δὲ τὴν Ἑλλάδα διαγγελθείσης τῆς ἀποκρίσεως τῆς τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς δεδομένης ὑπὲρ τῶν καταιτιαθέντων, τὰ μὲν πλήθη συνετρίβη ταῖς διανοίαις, καί τις οἷον ἀπελπισμὸς ὑπέδραμεν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, §30.32.12οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Χάροπα καὶ Καλλικράτην καὶ πάντες οἱ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως προεστῶτες μετέωροι πάλιν ἐγενήθησαν.
And when the answer given to the Achaeans concerning the accused was announced throughout Greece, the multitudes were crushed in their minds, and a kind of despair crept over the people, but Charops and Callicrates and their parties, and all who headed the same cause, became elated again.