§33.29.1efferavit ea caedes Thebanos Boeotosque omnis ad execrabile odium Romanorum, credentis non sine consilio imperatoris Romani Zeuxippum, principem gentis, id facinus conscisse.
That murder drove the Thebans and all the Boeotians into a cursed hatred of the Romans, as they believed that Zeuxippus, the chief of their nation, had not committed that crime without the design of the Roman general.
ad rebellandum neque vires neque ducem habebant; §33.29.2proximum bello quod erat, in latrocinium versi alios in hospitiis, alios vagos per hiberna milites ad varios commeantis usus excipiebant.
For rebelling they had neither the strength nor a leader; turning to what was closest to war, which was banditry, they began to cut off the soldiers, some in their lodgings, others as they wandered about the winter quarters, traveling for various necessary purposes.
§33.29.3quidam in ipsis itineribus ad notas latebras ab insidiantibus, pars in deserta per fraudem deversoria deducti opprimebantur; §33.29.4postremo non tantum ab odio sed etiam aviditate praedae ea facinora fiebant, quia negotiandi ferme causa argentum in zonis habentes in commeatibus erant.
Some were cut off on the very roads by those lying in wait and dragged to well-known hiding places, while a part were deceived and led into deserted inns and there destroyed; finally, these crimes were committed not only out of hatred but also from greed for booty, because they were traveling on leave carrying silver in their belts, generally for the purpose of trading.
§33.29.5cum primo pauci, deinde in dies plures desiderarentur, infamis esse Boeotia omnis coepit, et timidius quam in hostico egredi castris miles.
When at first a few, and then more day by day were missed, all Boeotia began to be infamous, and the soldier went out of the camp more timidly than if he were in an enemy's territory.
§33.29.6tum Quinctius legatos ad quaerendum de latrociniis per civitates mittit.
Then Quinctius sent legates through the states to inquire into the robberies.
plurimae caedes circa Copaidem paludem inventae; ibi ex limo eruta extractaque ex stagno cadavera saxis aut amphoris, ut pondere traherentur in profundum, adnexa; multa facinora Acraephiae et Coroneae facta inveniebantur.
Very many murders were discovered around the Lake Copais; there the bodies, dug out of the mud and dragged from the lake, were found bound with stones or amphorae, so that they might be drawn by the weight into the deep; many crimes were found to have been committed at Acraephia and Coronea.
§33.29.7Quinctius primo noxios tradi sibi iussit et pro quingentis militibus — tot enim interempti erant — quingenta talenta Boeotos conferre.
Quinctius at first ordered the guilty to be delivered up to him, and the Boeotians to pay five hundred talents for the five hundred soldiers — for so many had been slain.
§33.29.8quorum neutrum cum fieret, verbis tantum civitates excusarent nihil publico consilio factum esse, missis Athenas et in Achaiam legatis, qui testarentur socios iusto pioque se bello persecuturum Boeotos, §33.29.9et cum parte copiarum Ap. Claudio Acraephiam ire iusso ipse cum parte Coroneam circumsidit vastatis prius agris, qua ab Elatia duo diversa agmina iere.
When neither of these was done, and the states merely excused themselves in words, saying that nothing had been done by public counsel, he sent legates to Athens and into Achaea to bear witness to the allies that he was going to prosecute the Boeotians in a just and pious war, and having ordered Appius Claudius to go to Acraephia with part of the forces, he himself with the other part besieged Coronea, having first devastated the lands through which the two separate columns had marched from Elatia.
§33.29.10hac perculsi clade Boeoti, cum omnia terrore ac fuga completa essent, legatos mittunt.
The Boeotians, dismayed by this disaster, when everything was filled with terror and flight, sent legates.
qui cum in castra non admitterentur, Achaei Atheniensesque supervenerunt.
When these were not admitted into the camp, the Achaeans and Athenians arrived.
§33.29.11plus auctoritatis Achaei habuerunt deprecantes, quia, ni impetrassent pace Boeotis, bellum simul gerere decreverant.
The Achaeans had more authority in deprecating, because, if they had not obtained peace for the Boeotians, they had resolved to wage war at the same time.
§33.29.12per Achaeos et Boeotis copia adeundi adloquendique Romanum facta est iussisque tradere noxios et multae nomine triginta conferre talenta pax data et ab oppugnatione recessiim.
Through the Achaeans, the opportunity of approaching and addressing the Roman was granted also to the Boeotians, and peace was given upon their being ordered to deliver up the guilty and to pay thirty talents under the name of a fine, and the siege was raised.