§13.80.1τῶν δὲ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν πράξεων τέλος ἐχουσῶν Ἀθήνησι μὲν παρέλαβε τὴν ἀρχὴν Καλλίας, ἐν δὲ τῇ Ῥώμῃ κατεστάθησαν ὕπατοι Λεύκιος Φούριος καὶ Γναῖος Πομπήιος.
When the events of this year had come to an end, Callias succeeded to the office of archon in Athens, and in Rome Lucius Furius and Gnaeus Pompeius were established as consuls.
περὶ δὲ τούτους τοὺς χρόνους Καρχηδόνιοι τοῖς περὶ Σικελίαν εὐτυχήμασι μετεωριζόμενοι, καὶ σπεύδοντες ἁπάσης τῆς νήσου κυριεῦσαι, μεγάλας δυνάμεις ἐψηφίσαντο παρασκευάζεσθαι· ἑλόμενοι δὲ στρατηγὸν Ἀννίβαν τὸν κατασκάψαντα τήν τε τῶν Σελινουντίων καὶ τὴν τῶν Ἱμεραίων πόλιν, ἅπασαν αὐτῷ τὴν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐξουσίαν ἐπέτρεψαν.
About this time the Carthaginians, elated by their successes in Sicily and eager to make themselves masters of the whole island, voted to prepare great forces; and having chosen Hannibal, who had razed the cities of both the Selinuntians and the Himeraeans, as general, they entrusted to him the entire authority over the war.
§13.80.2παραιτουμένου δὲ διὰ τὸ γῆρας, προσκατέστησαν καὶ ἄλλον στρατηγὸν Ἰμίλκωνα τὸν Ἄννωνος, ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὄντα συγγενείας.
But when he declined on account of old age, they also appointed Himilco, the son of Hannon, who was of the same family, as an additional general.
οὗτοι δὲ κοινῇ συνεδρεύσαντες ἔπεμψάν τινας τῶν ἐν ἀξιώματι παρὰ τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις ὄντων μετὰ πολλῶν χρημάτων, τοὺς μὲν εἰς Ἰβηρίαν, τοὺς δʼ εἰς τὰς Βαλιαρίδας νήσους, παρακελευσάμενοι ξενολογεῖν ὡς πλείστους.
These two, having held a council together, sent some of the men of high standing among the Carthaginians with large sums of money, some to Iberia and others to the Balearic Islands, instructing them to recruit as many mercenaries as possible.
§13.80.3αὐτοὶ δʼ ἐπῄεσαν τὴν Λιβύην καταγράφοντες στρατιώτας Λίβυας καὶ Φοίνικας καὶ τῶν πολιτικῶν τοὺς κρατίστους.
They themselves went through Libya, enrolling Libyan and Phoenician soldiers, and the strongest among the citizens.
μετεπέμποντο δὲ καὶ παρὰ τῶν συμμαχούντων αὐτοῖς ἐθνῶν καὶ βασιλέων στρατιώτας Μαυρουσίους καὶ Νομάδας καί τινας τῶν οἰκούντων τὰ πρὸς τὴν Κυρήνην κεκλιμένα μέρη.
They also summoned from the tribes and kings allied with them Maurusian and Nomad soldiers, and some of those who inhabited the regions sloping towards Cyrene.
§13.80.4ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἰταλίας μισθωσάμενοι Καμπανοὺς διεβίβασαν εἰς Λιβύην· ᾔδεισαν γὰρ τὴν μὲν χρείαν αὐτῶν μεγάλα συμβαλλομένην, τοὺς δʼ ἐν Σικελίᾳ καταλελειμμένους Καμπανοὺς διὰ τὸ προσκεκοφέναι τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις μετὰ τῶν Σικελιωτῶν ταχθησομένους.
And having hired Campanians from Italy, they transported them to Libya; for they knew that their service would contribute greatly, and that the Campanians who had been left behind in Sicily, because they had quarreled with the Carthaginians, would range themselves with the Siceliots.
§13.80.5τέλος δὲ τῶν δυνάμεων ἀθροισθεισῶν εἰς Καρχηδόνα συνήχθησαν αὐτοῖς οἱ πάντες σὺν ἱππεῦσιν οὐ πολλῷ πλείους, ὡς μὲν Τίμαιος, τῶν δώδεκα μυριάδων, ὡς δʼ Ἔφορος, τριάκοντα μυριάδες.
Finally, when the forces were assembled at Carthage, the total number of them, including cavalry, was, according to Timaeus, not much over one hundred and twenty thousand, but according to Ephorus, three hundred thousand.
Καρχηδόνιοι μὲν οὖν τὰ πρὸς τὴν διάβασιν ἑτοιμάζοντες τάς τε τριήρεις πάσας κατήρτιζον καὶ φορτηγὰ πλοῖς συνήγαγον πλείω τῶν χιλίων·
The Carthaginians, therefore, preparing everything for the crossing, fitted out all their triremes and gathered more than a thousand merchant vessels.
§13.80.6προαποστειλάντων δʼ αὐτῶν εἰς Σικελίαν τεσσαράκοντα τριήρεις, οἱ Συρακόσιοι κατὰ τάχος ταῖς παραπλησίαις ναυσὶν ἐπεφάνησαν ἐν τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἔρυκα τόποις.
When they had sent forty triremes ahead to Sicily, the Syracusans quickly appeared in the waters around Eryx with a similar number of ships.
γενομένης δὲ ναυμαχίας ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον πεντεκαίδεκα μὲν τῶν Φοινισσῶν νεῶν διεφθάρησαν, αἱ δʼ ἄλλαι νυκτὸς ἐπιγενομένης ἔφυγον εἰς τὸ πέλαγος.
After a naval battle was fought for a long time, fifteen of the Phoenician ships were destroyed, and the rest, when night came on, fled into the open sea.
§13.80.7ἀπαγγελθείσης δὲ τῆς ἥττης τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις, Ἀννίβας ὁ στρατηγὸς ἐξέπλευσε μετὰ νεῶν πεντήκοντα· ἔσπευδε γὰρ τοὺς μὲν Συρακοσίους κωλῦσαι χρήσασθαι τῷ προτερήματι, ταῖς δὲ ἰδίαις δυνάμεσιν ἀσφαλῆ παρασκευάσαι τὸν κατάπλουν.
And when the defeat was reported to the Carthaginians, Hannibal the general set sail with fifty ships; for he was eager to prevent the Syracusans from taking advantage of their success, and to secure a safe crossing for his own forces.