§42.36.1per idem tempus legati ab rege Perseo venerunt.
About the same time, ambassadors came from King Perseus.
eos in oppidum intromitti non placuit, cum iam bellum regi eorum et Macedonibus et senatus decresset et populus iussisset.
It was decided not to admit them into the city, since both the senate had already decreed and the people had ordered war against their king and the Macedonians.
§42.36.2in aedem Bellonae in senatum introducti ita verba fecerunt: mirari Persea regem, quid in Macedoniam exercitus transportati essent; §42.36.3si impetrari a senatu posset, ut ii revocentur, regem de iniuriis, si quas sociis factas quererentur, arbitratu senatus satisfacturum esse.
Having been introduced into the senate in the temple of Bellona, they spoke as follows: that King Perseus wondered why armies had been transported into Macedonia; if it could be obtained from the senate that they should be recalled, the king would, according to the judgment of the senate, make satisfaction for any injuries, if they complained of any having been done to the allies.
§42.36.4Sp. Carvilius, ad eam ipsam rem ex Graecia remissus ab Cn. Sicinio, in senatu erat.
Spurius Carvilius, who had been sent back from Greece by Gnaeus Sicinius for this very purpose, was in the senate.
is Perrhaebiam expugnatam armis, Thessaliae aliquot urbes captas, cetera, quae aut ageret aut pararet rex, cum argueret, respondere ad ea legati iussi.
When he accused the king of having taken Perrhaebia by force of arms, of having captured several cities of Thessaly, and of other things which he was either doing or preparing, the ambassadors were ordered to answer to these charges.
§42.36.5postquam haesitabant, negantes sibi ultra quidquam mandatum esse, iussi renuntiare regi, consulem P. Licinium brevi cum exercitu futurum in Macedonia esse: §42.36.6ad eum, si satisfacere in animo esset, mitteret legatos.
When they hesitated, saying that nothing further had been commissioned to them, they were ordered to report to the king that the consul Publius Licinius would soon be in Macedonia with an army; to him he should send ambassadors, if he had it in mind to make satisfaction.
Romam quod praeterea mitteret, non esse; nemini enim eorum per Italiam ire liciturum.
There was no reason for him to send any further to Rome; for none of them would be allowed to travel through Italy.
§42.36.7ita dimissis P. Licinio consuli mandatum, ut intra undecimum diem iuberet eos Italia excedere, et Sp. Carvilium mitteret, qui, donec navem conscendissent, custodiret.
After they were thus dismissed, the consul Publius Licinius was ordered to command them to depart from Italy within eleven days, and to send Spurius Carvilius to watch them until they had embarked.
§42.36.8haec Romae acta nondum profectis in provinciam consulibus.
These things were done at Rome before the consuls set out for their province.
iam Cn. Sicinius, qui, priusquam magistratu abiret, Brundisium ad classem et ad exercitum praemissus erat, traiectis in Epirum quinque milibus peditum, trecentis equitibus, ad Nymphaeum in agro Apolloniati castra habebat.
Already Gnaeus Sicinius, who, before he resigned his office, had been sent ahead to Brundisium to the fleet and the army, had crossed over into Epirus with five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry, and was encamped at Nymphaeum in the territory of Apollonia.
§42.36.9inde tribunos cum duobus milibus militum ad occupanda Dassaretiorum et Illyriorum castella, ipsis accersentibus praesidia, ut tutiores a finitimorum impetu Macedonum essent, misit.
From there he sent tribunes with two thousand soldiers to occupy the strongholds of the Dassaretii and Illyrians, at the request of the inhabitants themselves for garrisons, so that they might be safer from the attacks of their neighboring Macedonians.