§39.27.1inde graviter offenso rege Thessalonicen ad cognoscendum de Thraciae urbibus proficiscuntur.
Thereupon, the king being heavily offended, they set out for Thessalonica to investigate concerning the cities of Thrace.
§39.27.2ibi legati Eumenis, si liberas esse Aenum et Maroneam velint Romani, nihil sui pudoris esse ultra dicere, quam ut admoneant, re, non verbo eos liberos relinquant, nec suum munus intercipi ab alio patiantur.
There, the envoys of Eumenes said that, if the Romans wished Aenus and Maronea to be free, it was not consistent with their modesty to say more than to remind them that they should leave them free in fact, not in word, nor suffer their own gift to be intercepted by another.
§39.27.3sin autem minor cura sit civitatium in Thracia positarum, multo verius esse, quae sub Antiocho fuerint, praemia belli Eumenem quam Philippum habere, §39.27.4vel pro patris Attali meritis bello, quod adversus Philippum ipsum gesserit populus Romanus, vel suis, quod Antiochi bello terra marique laboribus periculisque omnibus interfuerit.
But if there were less concern for the cities situated in Thrace, it was much more just that Eumenes rather than Philip should have as the rewards of war those which had been under Antiochus, either in consideration of the services of his father Attalus in the war which the Roman people waged against Philip himself, or of his own, because he had taken part in all the labors and dangers of the war against Antiochus by land and sea.
§39.27.5habere eum praeterea decem legatorum in eam rem praeiudicium, qui cum Chersonesum Lysimachiamque dederint, Maroneam quoque atque Aenum profecto dedisse, quae ipsa propinquitate regionis velut appendices maioris muneris essent.
He had, moreover, the prior decision of the ten commissioners in that matter, who, when they gave the Chersonese and Lysimachia, surely gave Maronea and Aenus also, which, by the very proximity of the region, were as it were appendages of the larger gift.
§39.27.6nam Philippum quidem quo aut merito in populum Romanum aut iure imperil, cum tam procul a finibus Macedoniae absint, civitatibus his praesidia imposuisse? vocari Maronitas iuberent: ab iis certiora omnia de statu civitatium earum scituros.
For indeed, by what merit toward the Roman people, or by what right of empire, had Philip placed garrisons in these cities, since they were so far distant from the borders of Macedonia? Let them order the Maronites to be called; from them they would learn all more certain things about the condition of those cities.
§39.27.7legati Maronitarum vocati non uno tantum loco urbis praesidium regium esse, sicut in aliis civitatibus, dixerunt, sed pluribus simul, et plenam Macedonum Maroneam esse.
The envoys of the Maronites, having been called, said that the royal garrison was not in only one place of the city, as in other cities, but in several at the same time, and that Maronea was full of Macedonians.
§39.27.8itaque dominari adsentatores regios: his solis loqui et in senatu et in contionibus licere; eos omnes honores et capere ipsos et dare aliis.
And so the royal sycophants dominated; to these alone was it permitted to speak both in the senate and in the assemblies; they themselves took all honors and gave them to others.
§39.27.9optimum quemque, quibus libertatis, quibus legum cura sit, aut exsulare pulsos patria aut inhonoratos et deterioribus obnoxios silere.
All the best citizens, who had a care for liberty and laws, were either living in exile, driven from their country, or, unhonored and subject to their inferiors, were keeping silence.
§39.27.10de iure etiam finium pauca adiecerunt: Q. Fabium Labeonem, cum in regione ea fuisset, derexisse finem Philippo veterem viam regiam, quae ad Thraciae Paroreian subeat, nusquam ad mare declinantem: Philippum novam postea deflexisse viam, qua Maronitarum urbes agrosque amplectatur.
They also added a few words about the right to the borders: that Quintus Fabius Labeo, when he had been in that region, had fixed the boundary for Philip as the old royal road, which goes up to Paroreia of Thrace, declining nowhere toward the sea; that Philip had afterwards laid out a new turning road, by which he embraced the cities and fields of the Maronites.