§24.23.1post hanc orationem claves portarum pecuniaeque regiae ante pedes eorum posuit.
After this speech, he placed the keys of the gates and the royal money before their feet.
atque illo quidem die dimissi ex contione laeti circa fana omnia deum supplicaverunt cum coniugibus ac liberis, postero die comitia praetoribus creandis habita.
And indeed on that day, dismissed from the assembly, they rejoiced and offered prayers around all the shrines of the gods with their wives and children; on the following day, an assembly was held for electing praetors.
§24.23.2creatus in primis Adranodorus, ceteri magna ex parte interfectores tyranni; duos etiam absentes, Sopatrum ac Dinomenen, fecerunt.
Adranodorus was elected among the first, and the rest were for the most part the slayers of the tyrant; they also elected two who were absent, Sopatrus and Dinomenes.
§24.23.3qui auditis iis, quae Syracusis acta erant, pecuniam regiam, quae in Leontinis erat, Syracusas devectam quaestoribus ad id ipsum creatis tradiderunt.
These men, having heard of what had been done at Syracuse, delivered the royal money which was in Leontini, after having it brought to Syracuse, to the quaestors elected for this very purpose.
§24.23.4et ea, quae in Insula erat, Achradinam tralata est; murique ea pars, quae ab cetera urbe nimis firmo munimento intersaepiebat Insulam, consensu omnium deiecta est.
And that which was on the Island was transferred to Achradina; and that part of the wall which blocked off the Island from the rest of the city with too strong a fortification was demolished by the consensus of all.
secutae et ceterae res hanc: inclinationem animorum ad libertatem.
Other matters also followed this inclination of minds toward liberty.
Hippocrates atque Epicydes audita morte tyranni, §24.23.5quam Hippocrates etiam nuntio interfecto celare voluerat, deserti a militibus, quia id tutissimum ex praesentibus videbatur, Syracusas rediere.
Hippocrates and Epicydes, having heard of the death of the tyrant, which Hippocrates had wished to conceal even by killing the messenger, having been deserted by the soldiers because that seemed the safest course under the present circumstances, returned to Syracuse.
§24.23.6ubi ne suspecti obversarentur tamquam novandi res aliquam occasionem quaerentes, praetores primum, dein per eos senatur adeunt;
There, lest they should move about under suspicion as if seeking some opportunity for revolution, they went first to the praetors, and then through them to the senate.
§24.23.7ab Hannibale se missos praedicant ad Hieronymum tamquam amicum ac socium, paruisse imperio eius, cuius imperator suus voluerit.
They declared that they had been sent by Hannibal to Hieronymus as a friend and ally, and that they had obeyed the command of him whose authority their own commander had wished them to obey.
§24.23.8velle ad Hannibalem redire; ceterum, cum iter tutum non sit vagantibus passim per totam Siciliam Romanis, petere, ut praesidii dent aliquid, quo Locros in Italiam perducantur.
They said they wished to return to Hannibal; but since the journey was not safe while the Romans were wandering here and there throughout all Sicily, they requested that they give them some guard by which they might be conducted to Locri in Italy.
gratiam magnam eos parva opera apud Hannibalem inituros.
They added that they would secure great gratitude with little trouble from Hannibal.
§24.23.9facile res impetrata; abire enim duces regios cum peritos militiae tum egentes eosdem atque audaces cupiebant.
The request was easily granted; for they wished the royal generals, who were both skilled in warfare and at the same time needy and daring, to depart.
§24.23.10sed quod volebant, non, quam maturato opus erat, naviter expediebant.
But what they wished, they did not execute with the speed that was necessary.
interim iuvenes militares et adsueti militibus, nunc apud eos ipsos, nunc apud transfugas, quorum maxima pars ex navalibus sociis Romanorum erat, nunc etiam apud infimae plebis homines crimina serebant in senatum optimatesque: §24.23.11id moliri clam eos atque struere, ut Syracusae per speciem reconciliatae societatis in dicione Romanorum sint, dein factio ac pauci auctores foederis renovati dominentur.
Meanwhile, some military youths accustomed to the soldiers were sowing accusations against the senate and the nobles, now among the soldiers themselves, now among the deserters—the greatest part of whom were from the Roman naval allies—and now even among the lowest plebeians: that they were secretly plotting and planning to bring Syracuse under the dominion of the Romans under the guise of a restored alliance, and that then a faction and a few authors of the renewed treaty might hold dominion.