Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45

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Table of Contents:
From Saguntum to the
Trebia
The Disaster of Cannae
Hannibal at Capua
The Revolution in Syracuse
The Fall of Syracuse
The Fate of Capua
Scipio in Spain
The Final Conquest in Spain
Scipio in Africa

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Aemilius gave notice for the councils of ten from all the cities to assemble at Amphipolis and to
bring with them all archives and documents wherever they were deposited, and all the money due
to the royal treasury. When the day arrived he advanced to the tribunal, where he took his seat
with the ten commissioners, surrounded by a vast concourse of Macedonians. [2] Though they
were accustomed to the display of royal power, this novel assertion of authority filled them with
fear; the tribunal, the clearing of the approach to it through the mass of people, the herald, the
apparitor, all these were strange to their eyes and ears and might even have appalled allies of
Rome, to say nothing of a vanquished enemy. [3] After the herald had called for silence Paulus,
speaking in Latin, explained the arrangements decided upon by the senate and by himself in
concert with the ten commissioners; Cnaeus Octavius, who was also present, translated the
address into Greek. [4] First of all it was laid down that the Macedonians were to be a free people,
possessing their cities and fields as before, enjoying their own laws and customs and electing their
annual magistrates. [5] They were to pay to Rome half the tribute which they had been paying to
the king. Secondly, Macedonia was to be broken up into four separate cantons. [6] The first would
embrace the district between the Strymon and the Nessus, and in addition, beyond the Nessus to
the east, the forts, towns and villages which Perseus had held, with the exception of Aenus,
Maronea and Abdera, and beyond the Strymon to the west the whole of Bisaltica together with
Heraclea, which district the natives call Sintice. [7] The second canton would be bounded on the
east by the Strymon, exclusive of Sintice, Heraclea and Bisaltica; and on the west by the Axius,
including the Paeonians, who dwelt to the east of the Axius. The third division would be the
district enclosed between the Axius on the east and the Peneus on the west; the Bora range shuts
it in on the north. [8] This canton was increased by the addition of the part of Paeonia which
extends westwards beyond the Axius; Edessa and Beroea were assigned to this division. The
fourth canton lay on the other side of the Bora range, bordering Illyria on the one side and Epirus
on the other.

Notes (W. Weissenborn, H. J. Mller, 1911)

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Summary (Latin, A lfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., 1951)

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Summary (Latin, W. Weissenborn, H. J. Mller, 1911)

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Summary (English, A lfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., 1951)

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Latin (W. Weissenborn, H. J. Mller, 1911)

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English (A lfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., 1951)

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English (William A . McDevitte, Sen. Class. Mod. Ex. Schol. A .B.T.C.D., 1850)

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References (73 total)

Close of the Hannibalic W ar

Rom e and Macedon
The Second Macedonian W ar
The Second Macedonian W ar
Close of the Macedonian W ar
Antiochus in Greece
W ar Against Antiochus-First
Stage
Final Defeat of Antiochus
Arraignm ent of Scipio
Africanus
The Bacchanalia in Rom e
and Italy
Perseus and Dem etrius
Perseus and the States of
Greece
The Third Macedonian W ar
The Third Macedonian W arContinued
Pydna and the Fall of
Macedonia
Rom e stabilizes the East
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[9] Aemilius then designated the capital cities where the councils were to be held in the different
cantons; Amphipolis was fixed for the first, Thessalonica for the second, Pella for the third, and
Pelagonia for the fourth. There the councils for each canton were to be summoned, the tribute
deposited, and the annual magistrates elected. His next announcement was that all intermarriage
between the inhabitants of the different cantons was forbidden, as also the possession of land or
houses in more than one canton. [10] The gold and silver mines were not allowed to be worked,
but permission was given in the case of the iron and copper mines. [11] Those working the mines
would have to pay one half of the royalty which they had paid to the king. The use of imported salt
was also forbidden. The Dardanians were laying claim to Paeonia on the ground that it once
belonged to them, and they had a common frontier; [12] the consul told them in reply that he was
granting political liberty to all who had been under the rule of Perseus. [13] As he had refused
them Paeonia he granted them the right to purchase salt and ordered the third canton to carry its
salt to Stobi, fixing, at the same time, the price at which it was to be sold. [14] He forbade the
Macedonians either to cut timber for ship-building themselves or to allow others to do so. He gave
permission to those cantons whose frontiers were contiguous to those of the barbarians to
maintain armed forces on their borders.
Livy. History of Rome. English Translation by. Rev. Canon Roberts. New York, New York. E. P. Dutton
and Co. 1912. 1. Livy. History of Rome. English Translation. Rev. Canon Roberts. New York, New York.
E. P. Dutton and Co. 1912. 2.
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Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklrt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44,
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Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Macedones
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Macedonia
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Metalla
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Nessus
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Paeonia
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Pelagonia
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Salis
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Sintice Heraclea
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Stobi
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Strym o
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Thessalonisa
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Tribunal
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Tributum
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Abdera
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Aurum
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Ax ius
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, L. Aem ilius Paullus.
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Vectigal
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Beroca
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Bora
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Conubium
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Edessa
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Heraclea
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CO NCILIUM
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CO NSILIUM
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), PRAECO
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), VECTIGALIA
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ABDERA
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AMPHIPO LIS
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BERMIUS MO NS
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BISALTIA
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), EDO NES
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MACEDO NIA or MACEDO N
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), NESTUS
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PAEO NES
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SINTI
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), STO BI
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
Polybius, Histories, Dem etrius son of Seleucus
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Lewis & Short, Abdra
Lewis & Short, Am phplis
Lewis & Short, Bsaltae
Lewis & Short, Bsaltae
Lewis & Short, dessa
Lewis & Short, Nessus
Lewis & Short, Sinti
Lewis & Short, Strm on
Lewis & Short, ac-censo
Lewis & Short, com -m ercum
Lewis & Short, com -m ercum
Lewis & Short, con-fnis
Lewis & Short, ex
Lewis & Short, ex ter
Lewis & Short, interprtor
Lewis & Short, n-dum
Lewis & Short, rgo
Lewis & Short, sal
Lewis & Short, stto
Lewis & Short, sum m tor
Lewis & Short, sus
Lewis & Short, b-qu

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