§13.54.1τῶν δὲ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν πράξεων τέλος ἐχουσῶν Ἀθήνησι μὲν παρέλαβε τὴν ἀρχὴν Διοκλῆς, ἐν Ῥώμῃ δὲ τὴν ὕπατον εἶχον ἀρχὴν Κόιντος Φάβιος καὶ Γάιος Φούριος.
When the events of this year had come to an end, Diocles assumed the office of archon in Athens, and in Rome Quintus Fabius and Gaius Furius held the consular office.
περὶ δὲ τούτους τοὺς καιροὺς Ἀννίβας ὁ τῶν Καρχηδονίων στρατηγὸς τούς τʼ ἐξ Ἰβηρίας ξενολογηθέντας καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς Λιβύης καταγραφέντας στρατιώτας συνήγαγε, καὶ μακρὰς μὲν ἑξήκοντα ναῦς ἐπλήρωσε, τὰ δὲ φορτηγὰ πλοῖα περὶ χίλια πεντακόσια παρεσκευάσατο.
Around this time, Hannibal, the general of the Carthaginians, assembled the soldiers who had been recruited from Iberia as mercenaries and those who had been enrolled from Libya; he manned sixty warships and prepared about fifteen hundred merchant vessels.
§13.54.2ἐν τούτοις τήν τε δύναμιν διεκόμιζε καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὰς πολιορκίας μηχανήματα καὶ βέλη καὶ τὴν ἄλλην παρασκευὴν ἅπασαν.
In these he transported the army, the siege engines, the missiles, and all the rest of the preparation.
περαιωθεὶς δὲ μετὰ τοῦ στόλου τὸ Λιβυκὸν πέλαγος, κατέπλευσε τῆς Σικελίας ἐπὶ τὴν ἄκραν τὴν ἀπέναντι τῆς Λιβύης, καλουμένην Λιλύβαιον·
Having crossed the Libyan Sea with his fleet, he put in at the promontory of Sicily that lies opposite Libya, which is called Lilybaeum.
§13.54.3καθʼ ὃν δὴ χρόνον τῶν Σελινουντίων τινὲς ἱππέων περὶ τοὺς τόπους διατρίβοντες, καὶ τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ καταπλέοντος στόλου θεασάμενοι, ταχέως τοῖς πολίταις τὴν τῶν πολεμίων παρουσίαν ἐδήλωσαν.
At this very time, some of the Selinuntine cavalry, who were spending time in those parts, having beheld the magnitude of the incoming fleet, quickly reported the presence of the enemy to their citizens.
καὶ οἱ μὲν Σελινούντιοι τοὺς βιβλιαφόρους παραχρῆμα πρὸς τοὺς Συρακοσίους ἀπέστειλαν, δεόμενοι βοηθεῖν·
And the Selinuntines immediately dispatched letter-carriers to the Syracusans, begging them to come to their aid.
§13.54.4ὁ δʼ Ἀννίβας ἐκβιβάσας τὴν δύναμιν κατεστρατοπέδευσεν, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ φρέατος, ὃ κατʼ ἐκείνους μὲν τοὺς καιροὺς ὠνομάζετο Λιλύβαιον, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πολλοῖς ἔτεσι πρὸς αὐτῷ κτισθείσης πόλεως αἴτιον ἐγενήθη τῇ πόλει τῆς ἐπωνυμίας.
But Hannibal, having disembarked his army, encamped, beginning from the well which at that time was named Lilybaeum, and many years after this, when a city was founded near it, became the cause of the city's name.
§13.54.5εἶχε δὲ τοὺς σύμπαντας Ἀννίβας, ὡς μὲν Ἔφορος ἀνέγραψε, πεζῶν μυριάδας εἴκοσι, ἱππεῖς δὲ τετρακισχιλίους, ὡς δὲ Τίμαιός φησιν, οὐ πολλῷ πλείους τῶν δέκα μυριάδων.
Hannibal had in total, as Ephorus wrote, two hundred thousand infantry and four thousand cavalry, but as Timaeus says, not many more than one hundred thousand.
τὰς μὲν οὖν ναῦς ἐν τῷ περὶ Μοτύην κόλπῳ πάσας ἐνεώλκησε, βουλόμενος ἔννοιαν διδόναι τοῖς Συρακοσίοις, ὡς οὐ πάρεστιν ἐκείνοις πολεμήσων οὐδὲ ναυτικῇ δυνάμει παραπλεύσων ἐπὶ Συρακούσας·
Now he hauled all his ships ashore in the gulf around Motya, wishing to give the Syracusans the impression that he was not present to make war on them, nor to sail along the coast with a naval force against Syracuse.
§13.54.6παραλαβὼν δὲ τοὺς παρʼ Αἰγεσταίων στρατιώτας καὶ τοὺς παρὰ τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων ἀνέζευξεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Λιλυβαίου τὴν πορείαν ποιούμενος ἐπὶ Σελινοῦντος.
And having taken along the soldiers from the Aegestaeans and those from the other allies, he set out from Lilybaeum, making his march toward Selinus.
ὡς δʼ ἐπὶ τὸν Μάζαρον ποταμὸν παρεγενήθη, τὸ μὲν παρʼ αὐτὸν ἐμπόριον κείμενον εἷλεν ἐξ ἐφόδου, πρὸς δὲ τὴν πόλιν παραγενηθεὶς εἰς δύο μέρη διεῖλε τὴν δύναμιν· περιστρατοπεδεύσας δʼ αὐτὴν καὶ τὰς μηχανὰς ἐπιστήσας μετὰ πάσης σπουδῆς τὰς προσβολὰς ἐποιεῖτο.
When he arrived at the Mazarus River, he took the trading post situated along it at the first onset, and having arrived at the city, he divided his army into two parts; having encamped around it and set up his engines, he made his attacks with all haste.
§13.54.7ἓξ μὲν γὰρ πύργους ὑπερβάλλοντας τοῖς μεγέθεσιν ἐπέστησε, τοὺς ἴσους δὲ κριοὺς κατασεσιδηρωμένους προσήρεισε τοῖς τείχεσι· χωρὶς δὲ τούτων τοῖς τοξόταις καὶ σφενδονήταις πολλοῖς χρώμενος ἀνέστελλε τοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπάλξεων μαχομένους.
For he set up six towers outstanding in their size, and applied an equal number of iron-bound battering rams to the walls; and apart from these, employing many archers and slingers, he drove back those who were fighting from the battlements.