§42.45.1inde legatio sub idem tempus in Asiam et circum insulas missa.
From there, around the same time, an embassy was sent to Asia and around the islands.
§42.45.2tres erant legati, Ti. Claudius Sp. Postumius M. Iunius.
There were three commissioners, Tiberius Claudius, Spurius Postumius, and Marcus Junius.
ii circumeuntes hortabantur socios ad suscipiendum adversus Persea pro Romanis bellum; et, quo quaeque opulentior civitas erat, eo accuratius agebant, quia minores secuturae maiorum auctoritatem erant.
These, as they went around, exhorted the allies to undertake the war against Perseus on behalf of the Romans; and the more opulent each state was, the more carefully they dealt with them, because the smaller states were sure to follow the authority of the greater.
§42.45.3Rhodii maximi ad omnia momenti habebantur, quia non fovere tantum, sed adiuvare etiam viribus suis bellum poterant, quadraginta navibus auctore Hegesilocho praeparatis; §42.45.4qui cum in summo magistratu esset — prytanin ipsi vocant —, multis orationibus pervicerat Rhodios, ut omissa, quam saepe vanam experti essent, regum fovendorum spe Romanam societatem, unam tum in terris vel viribus vel fide stabilem, retinerent.
The Rhodians were considered of the greatest importance for all purposes, because they were able not only to favor but also to assist the war with their own strength, forty ships having been prepared under the leadership of Hegesilochus; Who, when he was in the highest magistracy — they themselves call it prytanis — had by many speeches persuaded the Rhodians that, abandoning the hope of favoring the kings, which they had often experienced to be vain, they should retain the Roman alliance, the only one then on earth stable either in power or in good faith.
§42.45.5bellum imminere cum Perseo; desideraturos Romanos eundem navalem apparatum, quem nuper Antiochi, quem Philippi ante bello vidissent.
War was imminent with Perseus; and the Romans would require the same naval equipment which they had seen recently in the war of Antiochus, and before that in the war of Philip.
§42.45.6trepidaturos tum repente paranda classe, cum mittenda esset, nisi reficere naves, nisi instruere navalibus sociis coepissent.
They would then be in confusion from having to prepare a fleet suddenly when it ought to be sent, unless they began to repair their ships and equip them with naval allies.
id eo magis enixe faciundum esse, ut crimina delata ab Eumene fide rerum refellerent.
This must be done the more earnestly so that they might refute by the evidence of facts the charges brought against them by Eumenes.
§42.45.7his incitati quadraginta navium classem instructam ornatamque legatis Romanis advenientibus, ut non expectatam adhortationem esse appareret, ostenderunt.
Excited by these words, they showed a fleet of forty ships, equipped and adorned, to the Roman commissioners upon their arrival, so that it might appear that the exhortation had not been waited for.
§42.45.8et haec legatio magnum ad conciliandos animos civitatium Asiae momentum fuit.
And this embassy was of great importance for winning over the minds of the states of Asia.
Decimius unus sine ullo effectu, captarum etiam pecuniarum ab regibus Illyriorum suspicione infamis, Romam redit.
Decimius alone returned to Rome without any success, infamous also from the suspicion of having received money from the kings of the Illyrians.