§39.29.1movit aliquantum oratio regis legatos.
The king's speech moved the envoys to some extent.
itaque medio responso rem suspenderunt: si decem legatorum decreto Eumeni datae civitates eae essent, nihil se mutare; §39.29.2si Philippus bello cepisset eas, praemium victoriae iure belli habiturum; si neutrum eorum foret, cognitionem placere senatui reservari et, ut omnia in integro manerent, praesidia, quae in iis urbibus sint, deduci.
Therefore, they left the matter in suspense with an intermediate response: if those cities had been given to Eumenes by the decree of the ten commissioners, they would change nothing; if Philip had captured them in war, he would hold them as the reward of victory by the right of war; if neither of these should be the case, it was the pleasure of the senate that the inquiry be reserved for themselves, and, in order that everything might remain as it was, the garrisons which were in those cities should be withdrawn.
§39.29.3hae causae maxime animum Philippi alienaverunt ab Romanis, ut non a Perseo filio eius novis causis motum, sed ob has a patre bellum relictum filio videri possit.
These causes alienated the mind of Philip from the Romans in the highest degree, so that the war might seem not to have been provoked by his son Perseus for new causes, but to have been left by the father to his son on account of these.
§39.29.4Romae nulla Macedonici belli suspicio erat.
In Rome there was no suspicion of a Macedonian war.
L. Manlius proconsul ex Hispania redierat; cui postulanti ab senatu in aede Bellonae triumphum rerum gestarum magnitudo impetrabilem faciebat; §39.29.5exemplum obstabat, quod ita comparatum more maiorum erat, ne quis, qui exercitum non deportasset, triumpharet, nisi perdomitam pacatamque provinciam tradidisset successori.
Lucius Manlius, the proconsul, had returned from Spain; when he petitioned the senate in the temple of Bellona for a triumph, the magnitude of his achievements made it obtainable; precedent stood in the way, because it had been so established by the custom of the ancestors that no one who had not brought back his army should triumph, unless he had delivered up a thoroughly conquered and pacified province to his successor.
medius tamen honos Manlio habitus, ut ovans urbem iniret.
Nevertheless, a middle honor was granted to Manlius, that he should enter the city in ovation.
§39.29.6tulit coronas aureas quinquaginta duas, §39.29.7auri praeterea pondo centum triginta duo, argenti sedecim milia trecenta, et pronuntiavit in senatu decem milia pondo argenti et octoginta auri Q. Fabium quaestorem advehere: id quoque se in aerarium delaturum.
He carried fifty-two golden crowns, and besides, one hundred and thirty-two pounds of gold, sixteen thousand three hundred pounds of silver; and he announced in the senate that Quintus Fabius, the quaestor, was bringing ten thousand pounds of silver and eighty of gold, which he also would deliver into the treasury.
Magnus motus servilis eo anno in Apulia fuit.
There was a great slave insurrection that year in Apulia.
§39.29.8Tarentum provinciam L. Postumius praetor habebat.
Lucius Postumius, the praetor, had Tarentum as his province.
§39.29.9is de pastorum coniuratione, qui vias latrociniis pascuaque publica infesta habuerant, quaestionem severe exercuit.
He conducted a severe investigation into a conspiracy of shepherds, who had infested the roads with robberies and the public pastures.
ad septem milia hominum condemnavit: multi inde fugerunt, de multis sumptum est supplicium.
He condemned up to seven thousand men; many fled from there, and on many punishment was inflicted.
§39.29.10consules diu retenti ad urbem dilectibus tandem in provincias profecti sunt.
The consuls, having been detained for a long time at the city by the levies, at last set out for their provinces.