§18.24.1κατὰ δὲ τούτους τοὺς καιροὺς Ἀντίπατρος καὶ Κρατερὸς ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλοὺς ἐστράτευσαν, ἔχοντες πεζοὺς μὲν τρισμυρίους, ἱππεῖς δὲ δισχιλίους καὶ πεντακοσίους· οὗτοι γὰρ τῶν ἐν τῷ Λαμιακῷ πολέμῳ διαπολεμησάντων ὑπόλοιποι διέμενον ἀχείρωτοι.
At this same time, Antipater and Craterus marched against the Aetolians, having thirty thousand infantry and two thousand five hundred cavalry; for these were the only ones remaining unsubdued of those who had fought through the Lamian war.
§18.24.2οἱ δὲ Αἰτωλοὶ τηλικούτων δυνάμεων ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ὡρμημένων οὐ κατεπλάγησαν ταῖς ψυχαῖς, ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν ἀκμάζοντας ταῖς ἡλικίαις ἀθροίσαντες εἰς μυρίους κατέφυγον εἰς τοὺς ὀρεινοὺς καὶ τραχεῖς τόπους, εἰς οὓς τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ τοὺς γεγηρακότας καὶ τὸ τῶν χρημάτων πλῆθος ἀπέθεντο, καὶ τὰς μὲν ἀνωχύρους πόλεις ἐξέλιπον, τὰς δὲ ὀχυρότητι διαφερούσας φρουραῖς ἀξιολόγοις διαλαβόντες εὐτόλμως ὑπέμενον τὴν τῶν πολεμίων ἔφοδον.
But the Aetolians, although forces of such magnitude had set out against them, were not dismayed in spirit, but having gathered those in the prime of their life to the number of ten thousand, they fled for refuge into the mountainous and rugged places, in which they had deposited their children, wives, the aged, and the mass of their property. While they abandoned the unfortified cities, they occupied those outstanding in natural strength with significant garrisons and boldly awaited the onset of the enemy.