§39.23.1cum iam in exitu annus esset, Q. Marcius absens magistratu abiturus erat, Sp. Postumius quaestionibus cum summa fide curaque perfectis comitia habuit.
When the year was already coming to an end, and Quintus Marcius, in his absence, was about to lay down his office, Spurius Postumius, having completed the investigations with the utmost integrity and care, held the elections.
§39.23.2creati consules sunt Ap. Claudius Pulcher M. Sempronius Tuditanus.
Appius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus were elected consuls.
postero die praetores facti P. Cornelius Cethegus A. Postumius Albinus C. Afranius Stellio C. Atilius Serranus L. Postumius Tempsanus M. Claudius Marcellinus.
On the following day, the praetors elected were Publius Cornelius Cethegus, Aulus Postumius Albinus, Gaius Afranius Stellio, Gaius Atilius Serranus, Lucius Postumius Tempsanus, and Marcus Claudius Marcellinus.
§39.23.3extremo anni, quia Sp. Postumius consul renuntiaverat peragrantem se propter quaestiones utrumque litus Italiae desertas colonias Sipontum supero, Buxentum infero mari invenisse, §39.23.4triumviri ad colonos eo scribendos ex senatus consulto ab T. Maenio praetore urbano creati sunt L. Scribonius Libo M. Tuccius Cn. Baebius Tamphilus.
At the very end of the year, because the consul Spurius Postumius had reported that, while traversing both coasts of Italy on account of the investigations, he had found the colonies of Sipontum on the upper sea and Buxentum on the lower sea deserted, a commission of three for enrolling colonists there was elected by Titus Maenius, the urban praetor, in accordance with a decree of the senate, namely Lucius Scribonius Libo, Marcus Tuccius, and Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus.
cum Perseo rege §39.23.5et Macedonibus bellum quod imminebat, non unde plerique opinantur, nec ab ipso Perseo causas cepit: inchoata initia a Philippo sunt; et is ipse, si diutius vixisset, id bellum gessisset.
With King Perseus and the Macedonians, the war which was threatening did not take its origins from where most people suppose, nor from Perseus himself: the beginnings were started by Philip, and he himself, if he had lived longer, would have waged that war.
§39.23.6una eum res, cum victo leges imponerentur, maxime angebat, quod qui Macedonum ab se defecerant in bello, in eos ius saeviendi ademptum ei ab senatu erat, §39.23.7cum, quia rem integram Quinctius in condicionibus pacis distulerat, non desperasset impetrari posse.
One thing especially vexed him when, having been defeated, terms of peace were being imposed on him, namely that the right of punishing those of the Macedonians who had revolted from him during the war had been taken away from him by the senate, since, because Quinctius had deferred the matter undecided in the terms of peace, he had not despaired that it could be obtained.
§39.23.8Antiocho rege deinde bello superato ad Thermopylas, divisis partibus, cum per eosdem dies consul Acilius Heracleam, §39.23.9Philippus Lamiam oppugnasset, capta Heraclea quia iussus abscedere a moenibus Lamiae erat Romanisque oppidum deditum est, aegre eam rem tulerat. permulsit iram eius consul,
Then, after King Antiochus had been defeated in war at Thermopylae, the roles having been divided, when during those same days the consul Acilius had besieged Heraclea, and Philip had besieged Lamia, because, once Heraclea was captured, Philip had been ordered to withdraw from the walls of Lamia and the town was surrendered to the Romans, he had taken this matter bitterly.
§39.23.10quod ad Naupactum ipse festinans, quo se ex fuga Aetoli contulerant, Philippo permisit, ut Athamaniae et Amynandro bellum inferret et urbes quas Thessalis Aetoli ademerant, regno adiceret.
The consul, however, assuaged his anger, because, while he himself was hastening to Naupactus, where the Aetolians had fled, he permitted Philip to wage war on Athamania and Amynander and to add to his kingdom the cities which the Aetolians had taken from the Thessalians.
§39.23.11haud magno certamine et Amynandrum Athamania expulerat et urbes receperat aliquot.
With no great struggle, he both expelled Amynander from Athamania and recovered several cities.
§39.23.12demetriadem quoque, urbem validam et ad omnia opportunam, et Magnetum gentem suae dicionis fecit.
He also brought Demetrias, a strong city and well situated for all purposes, and the nation of the Magnetes under his own sway.
§39.23.13inde et in Thracia quasdam urbes, novae atque insuetae libertatis vitio seditionibus principum turbatas, partibus, quae domestico certamine vincerentur, adiungendo sese cepit.
From there he also took certain cities in Thrace, which were disturbed by the rebellions of their leading men through the vice of a new and unaccustomed freedom, by aligning himself with the factions that were being defeated in the domestic struggle.