§35.36.1Alexamenus cum omnibus Aetolis citato gradu ad regiam occupandam pergit.
Alexamenus goes with all the Aetolians at a rapid pace to seize the palace.
§35.36.2corporis custodes, §35.36.3cum in oculis res gereretur, pavor primo cepit; deinde, postquam abire Aetolorum agmen videre, concurrunt ad relictum tyranni corpus, et spectatorum turba ex custodibus vitae mortisque ultoribus facta est.
The bodyguards, when the deed was done before their eyes, were at first seized with panic; then, after they saw the army of the Aetolians depart, they rushed to the abandoned body of the tyrant, and from being guardians of his life and avengers of his death, they became a crowd of spectators.
§35.36.4nec movisset se quisquam, si extemplo positis armis vocata in contionem multitudo fuisset et oratio habita tempori conveniens, frequentes inde retenti in armis Aetoli sine iniuria cuiusquam;
And no one would have stirred, if, arms being immediately laid aside, the multitude had been called to an assembly and a speech appropriate to the occasion had been delivered, and the Aetolians, remaining there in large numbers under arms, would have been kept safe without injury to anyone.
§35.36.5sed, ut oportuit in consilio fraude coepto, omnia in maturandam perniciem eorum, qui fecerant, sunt acta.
But, as was to be expected in a plan begun with treachery, everything was done to hasten the destruction of those who had committed the deed.
§35.36.6dux regia inclusus diem ac noctem in scrutandis thesauris tyranni absumpsit; Aetoli velut capta urbe, quam liberasse videri volebant, in praedam versi.
The leader, shut up in the palace, spent day and night in ransacking the treasures of the tyrant; the Aetolians turned to plunder, as if the city, which they wished to appear to have liberated, had been captured.
§35.36.7simul indignitas rei, simul contemptus animos Lacedaemoniis ad coeundum fecit.
At once the indignity of the situation and at the same time contempt gave the Lacedaemonians the courage to unite.
alii dicere exturbandos Aetolos et libertatem, cum restitui videretur interceptam, repetendam; alii, ut caput agendae rei esset, regii generis aliquem in speciem adsumendum.
Some said that the Aetolians must be driven out, and that their liberty, which seemed to have been restored only to be snatched away, must be reclaimed; others said that, so that there might be a head for their undertaking, someone of the royal line should be adopted, if only for appearance.
§35.36.8Laconicus eius stirpis erat puer admodum, eductus cum liberis tyranni; eum in equum imponunt et armis arreptis Aetolos vagos per urbem caedunt.
Laconicus was a boy of that lineage, quite young, who had been brought up with the tyrant's children; they set him upon a horse and, taking up arms, slew the Aetolians who were wandering through the city.
§35.36.9tum regiam invadunt; ibi Alexamenum cum paucis resistentem obtruncant.
Then they invaded the palace; there they slew Alexamenus as he resisted with a few men.
Aetoli circa Chalcioecon — Minervae aereum est templum — congregati caeduntur; §35.36.10pauci armis abiectis pars Tegeam pars Megalen polin perfugiunt; ibi comprensi a magistratibus sub corona venierunt.
The Aetolians who had gathered around the Chalcioecos—this is a bronze temple of Minerva—were slaughtered; a few, throwing away their weapons, fled, some to Tegea, some to Megalopolis; there they were arrested by the magistrates and sold as slaves.