Postea, omni spe pacis inter Pyrrum et Romanos conciliandae ablata, Fabricius consul factus contra eum missus est. Afterwards, with all hope of peace between Pyhrrus and the Romans destroyed of reconciling, Fabricius elected consul was sent against him.
conciliandae is tied with pacis:
omni spe pacis conciliandae inter Pyrrum et Romanos
Grammarians may have a better definition, but this sandwich construction is very frequent.
It does change the translation a little bit. I will need to be more careful of this sandwich effect. The endings of pacis and conciliandae should have tipped me off.
The “sandwich effect” is especially common in ablative absolute constructions, where the noun (spe) and participle (concilianda) are the bread. The size of the sandwich can be quite substantial in some cases with long constructions.
This is an interesting example because it has the second sandwich inside the other. I usually approach reading latin as dealing with a series of parenthetical statements embedded within one another…
In reference to what Thesaurus said, is the outer sandwich omni spe …ablata, and the inner sandwich pacis… conciliandae? Also I changed the translation to read " Afterwards, with all hope of reconciling the peace between Pyrrus and the Romans destroyed, Fabricius elected consul was sent against him."
Correct.
Here are the semantic “units” that are layered together:
(omni spe [pacis {inter Pyrrum et Romanos} conciliandae] ablata)
(The inner chunk, inter pyrrum et romanos, hardly bears mentioning, but it’s still a unit.)
Gramatically, you can extract segments or move them around and maintain the sense. E.g. “omni spe ablata pacis conciliandae inter Pyrrum et Romanos.” That’s obviously less Latinate in its syntax, but it can help understanding.