§34.48.1Scipionem alii coniuncto exercitu cum collega per Boiorum Ligurumque agros populantem isse, quoad progredi silvae paludesque passae sint, scribunt, alii nulla memorabili gesta re Romam comitiorum causa redisse. §34.48.2eodem hoc anno T. Quinctius Elatiae, quo in hiberna reduxerat copias, totum hiemis tempus iure dicundo consumpsit mutandisque iis, quae aut ipsius Philippi aut praefectorum eius licentia in civitatibus facta erant, cum suae factionis hominum vires augendo ius ac libertatem aliorum deprimerent. §34.48.3veris initio Corinthum conventu edicto venit.
Some writers record that Scipio, having united his army with his colleague, marched ravaging through the lands of the Boii and the Ligurians as far as the forests and marshes allowed them to advance; others, that he returned to Rome for the purpose of the elections without having performed any memorable achievement. In this same year, Titus Quinctius, in Elatia, to which he had led back his troops into winter quarters, spent the whole winter season in administering justice and in changing those things which had been done in the states through the license either of Philip himself or of his prefects, when they, by increasing the power of the men of their own faction, were depressing the rights and liberty of others. At the beginning of spring, having proclaimed an assembly, he came to Corinth.
ibi omnium civitatium legationes in contionis modum circumfusas est adlocutus, §34.48.4orsus ab inita primum Romanis amicitia cum Graecorum gente et imperatorum, qui ante se in Macedonia fuissent, suisque rebus gestis. §34.48.5omnia cum approbatione ingenti sunt audita, praeterquam cum ad mentionem Nabidis ventum esset; id minime conveniens liberanti Graeciam videbatur, tyrannum reliquisse non suae solum patriae gravem, §34.48.6sed omnibus circa civitatibus metuendum, haerentem visceribus nobilissimae civitatis.
There he addressed the embassies of all the states, who were crowded around him in the manner of a public meeting, beginning first with the friendship originally contracted between the Romans and the Greek nation, and with the achievements of the generals who had been in Macedonia before him, and his own. All this was heard with great approbation, except when mention was made of Nabis; for it seemed by no means suitable for the liberator of Greece to have left a tyrant who was not only oppressive to his own country, but also formidable to all the states around, clinging to the very vitals of a most noble state.