§36.31.1eodem tempore et Messene in Peloponneso ab Achaeis, quod concilii eorum recusaret esse, §36.31.2oppugnari coepta est.
At the same time, Messene in the Peloponnese also began to be attacked by the Achaeans, because it refused to be part of their council.
duae civitates, Messene et Elis, extra concilium Achaicum erant; cum Aetolis sentiebant.
Two states, Messene and Elis, were outside the Achaean council; they sympathized with the Aetolians.
§36.31.3Elei tamen post fugatum ex Graecia Antiochum legatis Achaeorum lenius responderant: dimisso praesidio regio cogitaturos se, quid sibi faciendum esset; §36.31.4Messenii sine responso dimissis legatis moverant bellum, §36.31.5trepidique rerum suarum, cum iam ager effuso exercitu passim ureretur castraque prope urbem poni viderent, legatos Chalcidem ad T. Quinctium, auctorem libertatis, miserunt, qui nuntiarent Messenios Romanis, non Achaeis et aperire portas et dedere urbem paratos esse.
The Eleans, however, after Antiochus had been put to flight from Greece, had answered the legates of the Achaeans more gently: that once the royal garrison was dismissed, they would consider what they ought to do; the Messenians, having dismissed the legates without a reply, had started a war, and, terrified of their own situation, when they saw that their fields were already being burned everywhere by the scattered army and that camps were being pitched near the city, they sent legates to Chalcis to Titus Quinctius, the author of liberty, to announce that the Messenians were ready both to open their gates and to surrender their city to the Romans, not to the Achaeans.
§36.31.6auditis legatis extemplo profectus Quinctius a Megalopoli ad Diophanen praetorem Achaeorum misit, qui extemplo reducere eum a Messene exercitum et venire ad se iuberet.
Having heard the legates, Quinctius set out immediately from Megalopolis and sent word to Diophanes, the praetor of the Achaeans, ordering him to withdraw his army from Messene immediately and come to him.
§36.31.7dicto paruit Diophanes et soluta obsidione expeditus ipse praegressus agmen circa Andaniam, parvum oppidum inter Megalopolim Messenenque positum, Quinctio occurrit; §36.31.8et cum causas oppugnationis exponeret, castigatum leniter, quod tantam rem sine auctoritate sua conatus esset, dimittere exercitum iussit nec pacem omnium bono partam turbare.
Diophanes obeyed the order, and having raised the siege, he himself, light-armed, went ahead of the column and met Quinctius near Andania, a small town situated between Megalopolis and Messene; and when he explained the reasons for the siege, Quinctius, having gently rebuked him because he had attempted so great an enterprise without his authority, ordered him to dismiss the army and not to disturb the peace won for the good of all.
§36.31.9Messeniis imperavit, ut exules reducerent et Achaeorum concilii essent; si qua haberent, de quibus aut recusare aut in posterum caveri sibi vellent, Corinthum ad se venirent; §36.31.10Diophanen concilium Achaeorum extemplo sibi praebere iussit.
He commanded the Messenians to recall their exiles and to be members of the Achaean council; if they had any matters about which they wished either to make an objection or to be secured for the future, they should come to him at Corinth; he ordered Diophanes to provide him with a council of the Achaeans immediately.
ibi de Zacyntho intercepta per fraudem insula questus postulavit, ut restitueretur Romanis.
There, complaining about Zacynthus, an island seized through fraud, he demanded that it be restored to the Romans.
§36.31.11Philippi Macedonum regis Zacynthus fuerat; eam mercedem Amynandro dederat, ut per Athamaniam ducere exercitum in superiorem partem Aetoliae liceret, qua expeditione fractis animis Aetolos compulit ad petendam pacem.
Zacynthus had belonged to Philip, king of the Macedonians; he had given it to Amynander as a reward, so that he might be permitted to lead his army through Athamania into the upper part of Aetolia, by which expedition he broke the spirits of the Aetolians and compelled them to seek peace.
§36.31.12Amynander Philippum Megalopolitanum insulae praefecit; postea per bellum, quo se Antiocho adversus Romanos coniunxit, Philippo ad munera belli revocato Hieroclen Agrigentinum successorem misit.
Amynander appointed Philip of Megalopolis as governor of the island; afterwards, during the war in which he joined himself with Antiochus against the Romans, when Philip was recalled to the duties of war, he sent Hierocles of Agrigentum as his successor.