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Livy · History of Rome §36.20.1-36.20.8

Restraint at Coronea and Capture of the Syrian Fleet

Passage 1300 of 1770 · Latin

Summary

The consul restrains the plundering of Coronea during his march through Boeotia, while the movements of the fleeing royal fleet and the interception of the king's supply vessels by the Roman fleet are described.

§36.20.1consule per Phocidem et Boeotiam exercitum ducente consciae defectionis civitates cum velamentis ante portas stabant metu, ne hostiliter diriperentur.
While the consul was leading his army through Phocis and Boeotia, the cities, conscious of their defection, were standing before their gates with signs of supplication out of fear of being plundered as enemies.
§36.20.2ceterum per omnes dies haud secus quam in pacato agro sine vexatione ullius rei agmen processit, donec in agrum Coroneum ventum est.
For the rest, through all those days, the column marched without any harassment, just as in a pacified country, until they came into the territory of Coronea.
§36.20.3ibi statua regis Antiochi posita in templo Minervae Itoniae iram accendit, permissumque militi est, ut circumiectum templo agrum popularetur; dein cogitatio animum subit, cum communi decreto Boeotorum posita esset statua, indignum esse in unum Coronensem agrum saevire.
There, a statue of King Antiochus, placed in the temple of Itonian Minerva, kindled their anger, and the soldiers were permitted to plunder the land surrounding the temple; then, however, the thought occurred to their minds that, since the statue had been erected by a common decree of the Boeotians, it was unjust to vent their rage on the single territory of Coronea.
§36.20.4revocato extemplo milite finis populandi factus; castigati tantum verbis Boeoti ob ingratum in tantis tamque recentibus beneficiis animum erga Romanos.
The soldiers being immediately recalled, an end was put to the plundering; the Boeotians were only chastised with words for their ungrateful attitude toward the Romans in the face of such great and recent benefits.
§36.20.5inter ipsum pugnae tempus decem naves regiae cum praefecto Isidoro ad Thronium in sinu Maliaco stabant.
During the very time of the battle, ten royal ships under the commander Isidorus were lying at Thronium in the Maliac Gulf.
eo gravis vulneribus Alexander Acarnan, nuntius adversae pugnae, cum perfugisset, trepidae inde recenti terrore naves Cenaeum Euboeae petierunt.
When Alexander the Acarnanian, heavily wounded, bringing the news of the defeat, fled thither, the ships, thrown into confusion by the fresh terror, made for Cenaeum in Euboea.
§36.20.6ibi mortuus sepultusque Alexander.
There Alexander died and was buried.
tres, quae ex Asia profectae eundem portum tenuerant, naves audita exercitus clade Ephesum redierunt.
Three ships, which had set out from Asia and held the same port, returned to Ephesus upon hearing of the disaster of the army.
Isidorus ab Cenaeo Demetriadem, si forte eo deferret fuga regem, traiecit. — §36.20.7per eosdem dies A. Atilius praefectus Romanae classis magnos regios commeatus iam fretum, quod ad Andrum insulam est, praetervectos excepit; §36.20.8alias mersit, alias cepit naves; quae novissimi agminis erant cursum in Asiam verterunt.
Isidorus crossed over from Cenaeum to Demetrias, in case the king's flight should happen to bring him there. — During the same days, Aulus Atilius, the commander of the Roman fleet, intercepted a large convoy of royal supplies which had already sailed past the strait near the island of Andros; some of the ships he sank, others he captured; those which were at the rear of the column turned their course back to Asia.
Atilius Piraeum, unde profectus erat, cum agmine captivarum navium revectus magnam vim frumenti et Atheniensibus et aliis eiusdem regionis sociis divisit.
Atilius, returning with the column of captured ships to Piraeus, from where he had set out, distributed a great quantity of grain both to the Athenians and to the other allies of the same region.

Notes

  1. 36.20.1consciae defectionis — Genitive governed by the adjective 'conscius' (sharing knowledge of, conscious of), modifying 'civitates' to indicate that the cities were aware of their own rebellion.
  2. 36.20.3indignum esse ... saevire — An accusative and infinitive clause representing the content of 'cogitatio'. The infinitive 'saevire' acts as the subject of the clause, with 'indignum' as its predicate adjective.

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Livy, History of Rome §36.20.1-36.20.8. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.humanitext-lat2:36.20.1-36.20.8

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