§24.24.1his audiendis credendisque opportuna multitudo maior in dies Syracusas confluebat, nec Epicydi solum spem novandarum rerum, sed Adranodoro etiam praebebat.
A crowd, well-suited for hearing and believing these rumors, flocked to Syracuse in greater numbers day by day, and offered hope of making a revolution not only to Epicydes but also to Adranodorus.
§24.24.2qui fessus tandem uxoris vocibus monentis nunc illud esse tempus occupandi res, dum turbata omnia nova atque incondita libertate essent, dum regiis stipendiis pastus obversaretur miles, dum ab Hannibale missi duces adsueti militibus iuvare possent incepta, cum Themisto, cui Gelonis filia nupta erat, rem consociatam paucos post dies Aristoni cuidam tragico actori, cui et alia arcana committere adsuerat, incaute aperit.
Exhausted at length by the words of his wife, who warned him that now was the time to seize control, while everything was thrown into confusion by their new and unaccustomed liberty, while the soldiers fed on royal pay were still present, and while the generals sent by Hannibal and accustomed to the soldiers could assist their undertakings, he imprudently disclosed the plot, which he had shared with Themisto, to whom the daughter of Gelon was married, a few days later to a certain tragic actor named Ariston, to whom he had been accustomed to commit other secrets as well.
§24.24.3huic et genus et fortuna honesta erant, nec ars, quia nihil tale apud Graecos pudori est, ea deformabat.
This actor possessed an honorable birth and fortune, and his profession did not disgrace them, because among the Greeks nothing of that kind is considered a disgrace.
itaque fidem priorem potioremque ratus, quam patriae debebat, indicium ad praetores defert.
Therefore, thinking the loyalty which he owed to his country to be prior and more important, he brought the information to the praetors.
§24.24.4qui ubi rem haud vanam esse certis indiciis conpererunt, consultis senioribus et auctoritate eorum praesidio ad fores posito ingressos curiam Themistum atque Adranodorum interfecerunt.
When they found by reliable evidence that the matter was not groundless, having consulted the elders and by their authority placed a guard at the doors, they put Themisto and Adranodorus to death as they entered the senate-house.
§24.24.5et cum tumultus ab re in speciem atrociore causam aliis ignorantibus ortus esset, silentio tandem facto indicem in curiam introduxerunt.
And when a tumult had arisen from an affair that was in appearance more shocking than in reality, while others were ignorant of the cause, silence being at length restored, they introduced the informer into the senate-house.
§24.24.6qui cum ordine omnia edocuisset: principium coniurationis factum ab Harmoniae Gelonis filiae nuptiis, quibus Themisto iuncta esset; §24.24.7Afrorum Hispanorumque auxiliares instructos ad caedem praetorum principumque aliorum, bonaque eorum praedae futura interfectoribus pronuntiatum; §24.24.8iam mercennariorum manum adsuetam imperiis Adranodori paratam fuisse ad Insulam rursus occupandam; singula deinde, quae per quosque agerentur, totamque viris armisque instructam coniurationem ante oculos posuit.
When he had explained everything in order: that the beginning of the conspiracy had been made from the marriage of Harmonia, the daughter of Gelon, to whom Themisto had been united; that the African and Spanish auxiliaries had been drawn up for the slaughter of the praetors and other leading men, and that it had been announced to the killers that the property of these victims would be their booty; that already a band of mercenaries, accustomed to the commands of Adranodorus, had been prepared to seize the Island again; then he placed before their eyes each particular, what was being done and by whom, and the whole conspiracy, fully equipped with men and arms.
et senatui quidem tam iure caesi quam Hieronymus videbantur; §24.24.9ante curiam variae atque incertae rerum multitudinis clamor erat.
And indeed to the senate they seemed to have been as justly slain as Hieronymus; Before the senate-house, there was a clamor from the crowd, who held various and uncertain views of the situation.
quam ferociter minitantem in vestibulo curiae corpora coniuratorum eo metu compresserunt, ut silentes integram plebem in contionem sequerentur.
While they were fiercely threatening in the vestibule of the senate-house, the bodies of the conspirators suppressed them with such terror that they followed the whole plebs in silence to the assembly.
§24.24.10Sopatro mandatum ab senatu et a collegis, ut verba faceret.
Sopatrus was commissioned by the senate and by his colleagues to make a speech.