§45.31.1Macedoniae formula dicta cum leges quoque se daturum ostendisset, Aetoli deinde citati.
The regulations of Macedonia having been announced, after he had shown that he would also give them laws, the Aetolians were next summoned.
in qua cognitione magis utra pars Romanis, utra regi favisset quaesitum est, quam utra fecisset iniuriam aut accepisset; §45.31.2noxa liberati interfectores; exilium pulsis aeque ratum fuit ac mors interfectis; A. Baebius unus est damnatus, quod milites Romanos praebuisset ad ministerium caedis.
In this inquiry, it was asked more which party had favored the Romans and which the king, than which had done or received an injury; the killers were cleared of guilt; exile was as fully ratified for those driven out as death for those slain; Aulus Baebius alone was condemned, because he had supplied Roman soldiers for the service of slaughter.
§45.31.3hic eventus Aetolorum causae in omnibus Graeciae gentibus populisque eorum, qui partis Romanorum fuerant, inflavit ad intolerabilem superbiam animos et obnoxios pedibus eorum subiecit, quos aliqua parte suspicio favoris in regem contigerat.
This outcome of the Aetolians' case, in all the nations and peoples of Greece, puffed up the minds of those who had been of the Roman party to an intolerable pride, and subjected to their feet, as submissive, those whom some suspicion of favoring the king had touched in any part.
§45.31.4tria genera principum in civitatibus erant, duo, quae adulando aut Romanorum imperium aut amicitiam regum sibi privatim opes oppressis faciebant civitatibus; media una pars utrique generi adversa libertatem legesque tuebatur.
There were three kinds of leading men in the states: two which, by flattering either the power of the Romans or the friendship of the kings, made wealth for themselves privately by oppressing the states; one middle party, opposed to both kinds, protected liberty and the laws.
§45.31.5his ut maior apud suos caritas, ita minor ad externos gratia erat.
To these, as there was greater affection among their own people, so there was less influence with foreigners.
secundis rebus elati Romanorum partis eius fautores soli tum in magistratibus, soli in legationibus erant.
Elated by prosperity, the supporters of that Roman party alone were then in the magistracies, alone in the embassies.
§45.31.6hi cum frequentes et ex Peloponneso et ex Boeotia et ex aliis Graeciae conciliis adessent, implevere aures decem legatorum: §45.31.7non eos tantum, qui se propalam per vanitatem iactassent tamquam hospites et amicos Persei, sed multo plures alios ex occulto favisse regi, qui per speciem tuendae libertatis in conciliis adversus Romanos omnia instruxissent, §45.31.8nec aliter eas mansuras in fide gentes, nisi fractis animis adversarum partium aleretur confirmareturque auctoritas eorum, qui nihil praeter imperium Romanorum spectarent.
When these were present in large numbers, both from the Peloponnese and from Boeotia and from other councils of Greece, they filled the ears of the ten commissioners: that not only those who had openly boasted out of vanity of being hosts and friends of Perseus, but far more others had secretly favored the king, who under the pretext of defending liberty had prepared everything in the councils against the Romans; and that those nations would not otherwise remain in alliance, unless, the spirits of the opposing parties being broken, the authority of those who looked to nothing except the power of the Romans were nourished and confirmed.
§45.31.9ab his editis nominibus evocati litteris imperatoris ex Aetolia Acarnaniaque et Epiro et Boeotia, qui Romam ad causam dicendam sequerentur; in Achaiam ex decem legatorum numero profecti duo, C. Claudius et Cn. Domitius, ut ipsi edicto evocarent.
When the names had been given by them, those who were to follow to Rome to plead their cause were summoned by letters of the general from Aetolia, Acarnania, Epirus, and Boeotia; to Achaea, two from the number of the ten commissioners, Gaius Claudius and Gnaeus Domitius, set out, so that they themselves might summon them by an edict.
§45.31.10id duabus de causis factum, una, quod fiduciae plus animorumque esse Achaeis ad non parendum credebant et forsitan etiam in periculo fore Callicraten et ceteros criminum auctores delatoresque; §45.31.11altera, cur praesentes evocarent, causa erat, quod ex aliis gentibus principum litteras deprensas in commentariis regiis habebant, in Achaeis caecum erat crimen nullis eorum litteris inventis.
This was done for two reasons: one, because they believed that the Achaeans had more confidence and spirit not to obey, and perhaps also that Callicrates and the other authors of charges and informers would be in danger; the other reason why they summoned them in person was that, while from other nations they had letters of the leading men seized in the royal archives, in the case of the Achaeans the charge was obscure, since no letters of theirs had been found.
§45.31.12Aetolis dimissis Acarnanum citata gens.
The Aetolians having been dismissed, the nation of the Acarnanians was summoned.
in his nihil novatum, nisi quod Leucas exempta est Acarnanum concilio.
Among them nothing was changed, except that Leucas was removed from the council of the Acarnanians.
§45.31.13quaerendo deinde latius, qui publice aut privatim partium regis fuissent, in Asiam quoque cognitionem extendere et ad Antissam in Lesbo insula dirundam ac traducendos Methymnam Antissaeos Labeonem miserunt, §45.31.14quod Antenorem, regium praefectum, quo tempore cum lembis circa Lesbum esset vagatus, portu receptum commeatibus iuvissent.
Then, inquiring more widely into who publicly or privately had been of the king's party, they extended the inquiry also into Asia, and sent Labeo to destroy Antissa on the island of Lesbos and to transfer the Antissaeans to Methymna, because they had received in harbor and assisted with supplies Antenor, the king's commander, at the time when he was cruising with light vessels around Lesbos.
§45.31.15duo securi percussi viri insignes, Andronicus, Andronici filius, Aetolus, quod patrem secutus arma contra populum Romanum tulisset, et Neo Thebanus, quo auctore societatem cum Perseo iunxerant.
Two distinguished men were beheaded with the axe: Andronicus, son of Andronicus, an Aetolian, because following his father he had borne arms against the Roman people; and Neo the Theban, by whose advice they had formed an alliance with Perseus.