§34.25.1tribunis militum, ut exercitum ab Elatia arcesserent, imperavit.
He ordered the military tribunes to summon the army from Elatia.
§34.25.2per eosdem dies et Antiochi legatis de societate agentibus respondit nihil se absentibus decem legatis sententiae habere; Romam eundum ad senatum iis esse.
During those same days, he also replied to the envoys of Antiochus who were treating of an alliance, that he had no power of decision in the absence of the ten commissioners; they must go to Rome to the senate.
§34.25.3ipse copias adductas ab Elatia ducere Argos pergit; atque ei circa Cleonas Aristaenus praetor cum decem milibus Achaeorum, equitibus mille occurrit, et haud procul inde iunctis exercitibus posuerunt castra.
He himself proceeded to lead the forces brought from Elatia to Argos; and near Cleonae, Aristaenus the praetor met him with ten thousand Achaeans and a thousand horsemen, and they pitched camp with their joined armies not far from there.
§34.25.4postero die in campum Argivorum descenderunt et quattuor ferme milia ab Argis locum castris capiunt.
On the following day they descended into the plain of the Argives and chose a site for their camp about four miles from Argos.
§34.25.5praefectus praesidii Laconum erat Pythagoras, gener idem tyranni et uxoris eius frater, qui sub adventum Romanorum et utrasque arces — nam duas habent Argi — et loca alia, quae aut opportuna aut suspecta erant, validis praesidiis firmavit;
The commander of the Lacedaemonian garrison was Pythagoras, who was both the son-in-law of the tyrant and the brother of his wife; upon the approach of the Romans, he strengthened with powerful garrisons both of the citadels—for Argos has two—and other places that were either advantageous or suspected.
§34.25.6sed inter haec agenda pavorem iniectum adventu Romanorum dissimulare haudquaquam poterat; et ad externum terrorem intestina etiam seditio accessit.
But while doing these things, he could by no means conceal the terror inspired by the arrival of the Romans; and to the external alarm domestic sedition was also added.
§34.25.7Damocles erat Argius, adulescens maioris animi quam consilii, qui primo, iureiurando interposito, de praesidio expellendo cum idoneis conlocutus, dum vires adicere coniurationi studet, incautior fidei aestimator fuit.
There was an Argive, Damocles, a young man of greater spirit than judgment, who at first, having interchanged an oath, conferred with suitable persons about expelling the garrison; but while he was eager to add strength to the conspiracy, he was too incautious an estimator of fidelity.
§34.25.8conloquentem eum cum suis satelles a praefecto missus cum accerseret, sensit proditum consilium esse hortatusque est coniuratos, §34.25.9qui aderant, ut potius, quam extorti morerentur, arma secum caperent.
While he was conversing with his associates, a guard sent by the commander came to summon him; realizing that the plot had been betrayed, he exhorted the conspirators who were present that, rather than die under torture, they should take up arms with him.
atque ita cum paucis in forum pergit ire clamitans, ut, qui salvam rem publicam vellent, auctorem et ducem se libertatis sequerentur.
And so, with a few men, he proceeded to the forum, shouting out that those who wished the safety of the state should follow him as the author and leader of liberty.
§34.25.10haud sane movit quemquam, quia nihil usquam spei propinquae, nedum satis firmi praesidii cernebant.
He did not indeed move anyone, because they saw no hope anywhere near at hand, much less any sufficiently strong protection.
§34.25.11haec vociferantem eum Lacedaemonii circumventum cum suis interfecerunt.
As he was vociferating these things, the Lacedaemonians surrounded and killed him along with his followers.
comprensi deinde quidam et alii.
Then some others were also arrested.
§34.25.12ex iis occisi plures, pauci in custodiam coniecti; multi proxima nocte funibus per murum demissi ad Romanos perfugerunt.
Of these, several were put to death, a few were thrown into prison; many during the following night, let down by ropes over the wall, escaped to the Romans.