§34.22.1eadem aestate alter consul L. Valerius Flaccus in Gallia cum Boiorum manu propter Litanam silvam signis collatis secundo proelio conflixit.
In the same summer, the other consul, L. Valerius Flaccus, fought a successful battle in Gaul against a band of the Boii near the Litana forest.
§34.22.2octo milia Gallorum caesa traduntur; ceteri omisso bello in vicos suos atque agros dilapsi.
Eight thousand of the Gauls are reported to have been slain; the rest, abandoning the war, dispersed to their own villages and fields.
§34.22.3consul relicum aestatis circa Padum Placentiae et Cremonae exercitum habuit restituitque, quae in iis oppidis bello diruta fuerant.
The consul kept his army for the remainder of the summer around the Po, at Placentia and Cremona, and restored what had been destroyed in those towns by the war.
§34.22.4cum hic status rerum in Italia Hispaniaque esset, T. Quinctio in Graecia ita hibernis actis, ut exceptis Aetolis, quibus nec pro spe victoriae praemia contigerant, nec diu quies placere poterat, universa Graecia simul pacis libertatisque perfruens bonis egregie statu suo gauderet §34.22.5nec magis in bello virtutem Romani ducis quam in victoria temperantiam iustitiamque et moderationem miraretur, senatus consultum, quo bellum adversus Nabim Lacedaemonium decretum erat, §34.22.6adfertur.
While this was the state of affairs in Italy and Hispania, T. Quinctius spent his winter in Greece in such a way that, with the exception of the Aetolians, to whom no rewards had fallen in proportion to their hope of victory, nor could a long period of quiet please them, all Greece, enjoying at once the blessings of peace and liberty, rejoiced exceedingly in its own condition, and admired no less the virtue of the Roman general in war than his moderation, justice, and self-control in victory, when a decree of the senate, by which war against Nabis the Lacedaemonian had been decreed, was brought.
quo lecto Quinctius conventum Corinthum omnium sociarum civitatium legationibus in diem certam edicit. ad quam ubi frequentes undique principes convenerunt, ita uti ne Aetoli quidem abessent, tali oratione est usus:
Having read this, Quinctius proclaimed a council at Corinth for the embassies of all the allied states for a fixed day.
§34.22.7“bellum adversus Philippum non magis communi animo consilioque Romani et Graeci gesserunt, quam utrique suas causas belli habuerunt.
When many chiefs from all sides had assembled there, so that not even the Aetolians were absent, he made the following speech: "The Romans and Greeks did not wage the war against Philip with a more common purpose and counsel than each had their own causes for the war.
§34.22.8nam et Romanorum amicitiam nunc Carthaginiensis hostis eorum iuvando, nunc hic sociis nostrisoppugnandis violaverat et in vos talis fuit, §34.22.9ut nobis, etiam si nostrarum oblivisceremur iniuriarum, vestrae iniuriae satis digna causa belli fuerit.
For he had violated the friendship of the Romans, now by helping their enemy, the Carthaginians, now by attacking our allies here, and his conduct toward you was such that for us, even if we were to forget our own injuries, your injuries would have been a sufficiently worthy cause for war.
hodierna consultatio tota ex vobis pendet.
Today's consultation depends entirely on you.
§34.22.10refero enim ad vos, utrum Argos, sicut scitis ipsi, ab Nabide occupatos pati velitis sub dicione eius esse, §34.22.11an aequum censeatis nobilissimam vetustissimamque civitatem, in media Graecia sitam, repeti in libertatem et eodem statu quo ceteras urbes Peloponnesi et Graeciae esse.
For I refer to you whether you wish to allow Argos, occupied by Nabis, as you yourselves know, to be under his dominion, or whether you think it just that a most noble and ancient state, situated in the middle of Greece, should be restored to liberty and be in the same condition as the other cities of the Peloponnese and Greece.
§34.22.12haec consultatio, ut videtis, tota de re pertinente ad vos est; Romanos nihil contingit, nisi quatenus liberatae Graeciae unius civitatis servitus non plenam nec integram gloriam esse sinit.
This consultation, as you see, is entirely about a matter pertaining to you; it does not touch the Romans at all, except in so far as the servitude of a single state in a liberated Greece does not allow our glory to be full and complete.
§34.22.13ceterum, si vos nec cura eius civitatis nec exemplum nec periculum movet, ne serpat latius contagio eius mali, nos aequi bonique facimus.
But if neither care for that state, nor the example, nor the danger lest the contagion of that evil creep more widely moves you, we shall be content.
de hac re vos consulo, staturus eo, quod plures censueritis. ”
On this matter I consult you, resolved to abide by what the majority of you shall decide."