History of Rome

​Attalus and the Romans, having first steered for the Piraeus from Hermione, ​stayed there a few days and, loaded with the decrees of the Athenians, which were as immoderate in the honors bestowed on their allies as they had been in their wrath against the enemy, ​sailed from the Piraeus to Andros. And when they had anchored in the harbor which they call Gaurium, ​having sent men to sound the minds of the townsfolk, whether they preferred to surrender the city voluntarily rather than to experience force, after they replied that the citadel was held by a royal garrison and that they were not in their own power, the king and the Roman lieutenant, having landed their forces and all the equipment for besieging cities, approached the city from different sides.

​The Roman arms and standards, never seen before, and the spirit of the soldiers advancing so promptly under the walls, terrified the Greeks considerably more;

​therefore, a flight into the citadel was immediately made, and the enemy possessed themselves of the city. And when they had held out in the citadel for two days, trusting more to the strength of the place than to their arms, on the third day, having agreed both themselves and the garrison that they should be transported to Delium in Boeotia with one garment each, they surrendered the city and the citadel.

​These were granted by the Romans to King Attalus; they themselves carried away the booty and ornaments of the city. Attalus, lest he should have the island deserted, persuaded almost all of the Macedonians and some of the Andrians to remain.

​Afterward, those also who had been transported to Delium according to the agreement were recalled from there by the promises of the king, since the longing for their country also inclined their minds more easily to believe.

​From Andros they crossed to Cythnus. There some days were spent in vain in besieging the city, and, because it was scarcely worth the effort, they departed.

​At Prasiae—this is a place on the mainland of Attica—twenty lembi of the Issaeans joined the fleet of the Romans. These were sent to ravage the lands of the Carystians; the rest of the fleet held Geraestus, a famous harbor of Euboea, until the Issaeans should return from Carystus.

​Thence, all setting sail into the open sea, they reached Icus through the middle of the sea past the island of Scyros. There they were detained for a few days by a raging north wind; when the first calm was granted, ​they crossed to Sciathus, a city recently devastated and plundered by Philip.

​The soldiers, dispersing through the fields, brought back to the ships corn and whatever else could be of use for food; of booty there was none, ​nor had the Greeks deserved to be plundered. Thence, steering for Cassandrea, they first made Mendaeum, a coastal village of that state. Thence, when having rounded the promontory they wished to bring the fleet around to the very walls of the city, a fierce storm having arisen, they were almost overwhelmed by the waves, dispersed, and escaped to the land having lost a great part of their rigging.

​This maritime storm was also an omen for the operations to be conducted on land. For having gathered the ships into one place and landed the forces, they attacked the city, but being repulsed with many wounds—and there was a strong royal garrison there—they returned with their attempt in vain and crossed to Canastraeum in Pallene. Thence, having rounded the promontory of Torone, they steered for Acanthus.

​There first the land was ravaged, then the city itself was taken by force and plundered. Proceeding no further—for they already had ships heavy with booty—they returned to Sciathus, whence they had come, and from Sciathus back to Euboea.