§19.29.1Ἀντίγονος δʼ ἐκ μετεώρων τόπων κατιδὼν τὴν τῶν πολεμίων τάξιν πρὸς ταύτην ἁρμοζόντως διεκόσμησε τὴν ἰδίαν δύναμιν.
Antigonus, having looked down upon the array of the enemy from high ground, marshalled his own force in conformity with it.
ὁρῶν γὰρ τὸ τῶν ἐναντίων δεξιὸν κέρας ὠχυρωμένον τοῖς τε θηρίοις καὶ τοῖς κρατίστοις τῶν ἱππέων ἀντέταξε τοὺς ἐλαφροτάτους τῶν ἱππέων, οἳ κατὰ στόμα μὲν ἤμελλον φυγομαχήσειν ἀραιοὶ διαστάντες, ἐκ μεταβολῆς δὲ διαγωνιεῖσθαι καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ ποιήσειν ἄπρακτον τῶν ἐναντίων τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ᾧ μάλιστα ἐπίστευον.
For, seeing that the right wing of the adversaries was strengthened by the beasts and by the strongest of the cavalry, he opposed to it the lightest of his cavalry, who were intended to avoid close combat by standing at wide intervals in the front, but to fight by wheeling about, and in this manner to render ineffectual that part of the enemy in which they trusted most.
§19.29.2ἔστησε δʼ ἐπὶ ταύτης τῆς φάλαγγος τούς τε ἐκ Μηδίας καὶ Παρθυαίας ἀφιπποτοξότας καὶ λογχοφόρους, ὄντας μὲν χιλίους, πεφυκότας δʼ εὖ πρὸς τὴν ἐκ μεταβολῆς κρίσιν, ἑξῆς δὲ τοὺς ἀπὸ θαλάσσης συναναβεβηκότας Ταραντίνους δισχιλίους καὶ διακοσίους, ἐπιλέκτους ἐν ἐνέδραις καὶ καλῶς διακειμένους ταῖς εὐνοίαις πρὸς αὐτόν, τοὺς δʼ ἀπὸ Φρυγίας καὶ Λυδίας χιλίους, τοὺς δὲ μετὰ Πίθωνος χιλίους πεντακοσίους καὶ τοὺς μετὰ Λυσανίου ξυστοφόρους τετρακοσίους, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τούς τε ἀμφίππους ὀνομαζομένους καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἄνω κατοικούντων Θρᾳκῶν ὀκτακοσίους.
On this line he stationed the horse-archers and lance-bearers from Media and Parthyene, who were one thousand in number and well suited by nature for tactical retreats, and next, two thousand two hundred Tarentines who had come up with him from the sea, select men for ambushes and well-disposed in their loyalty toward him; then one thousand from Phrygia and Lydia, fifteen hundred under Pithon, and four hundred lance-bearers under Lysanias, and at the end of all, those called amphippoi and eight hundred of the Thracians who inhabit the upper country.
§19.29.3καὶ τὸ μὲν εὐώνυμον κέρας ὑπὸ τούτων ἐπληροῦτο τῶν ἱππέων, ὧν ἁπάντων Πίθων εἶχε τὴν ἡγεμονίαν·
And the left wing was filled by these cavalry, of all of whom Pithon had the command.
τῶν δὲ πεζῶν πρῶτοι μὲν ἐτάχθησαν οἱ ξένοι, πλείους ὄντες τῶν ἐννακισχιλίων, μετὰ δὲ τούτους Λύκιοι καὶ Παμφύλιοι τρισχίλιοι, παντοδαποὶ δʼ εἰς τὰ Μακεδονικὰ καθωπλισμένοι πλείους τῶν ὀκτακισχιλίων, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ Μακεδόνες οὐ πολὺ ἐλάττους τῶν ὀκτακισχιλίων, οὓς ἔδωκεν Ἀντίπατρος καθʼ ὃν καιρὸν ἐπιμελητὴς ἀπεδείχθη τῆς βασιλείας.
Of the infantry, first were stationed the mercenaries, being more than nine thousand, and after these three thousand Lycians and Pamphylians, and more than eight thousand of all kinds armed in the Macedonian fashion, and at the end of all, not much fewer than eight thousand Macedonians, whom Antipater had given him at the time when he was appointed guardian of the kingdom.
§19.29.4τῶν δʼ ἱππέων πρῶτοι μὲν ἦσαν ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ κέρατος συνάπτοντες τῇ φάλαγγι μισθοφόροι παντοδαποὶ πεντακόσιοι, ἑξῆς δὲ Θρᾷκες χίλιοι, παρὰ δὲ τῶν συμμάχων πεντακόσιοι, ἐχόμενοι δὲ τούτων οἱ προσαγορευθέντες ἑταῖροι χίλιοι, Δημήτριον ἔχοντες ἡγεμόνα τὸν Ἀντιγόνου, τότε πρώτως μέλλοντα συναγωνίζεσθαι τῷ πατρί.
Of the cavalry, first on the right wing, joining the phalanx, were five hundred mercenaries of all kinds, next one thousand Thracians, and five hundred from the allies; and holding next to these were the so-called Companions, one thousand, having as commander Demetrius the son of Antigonus, who was then for the first time about to fight in alliance with his father.
§19.29.5ἐπʼ ἄκρου δὲ τοῦ κέρατος ἦν τὸ ἄγημα τῶν ἱππέων τριακοσίων, μεθʼ ὧν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐκινδύνευε· πρόταγμα δὲ τούτων ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων παίδων εἶλαι τρεῖς ὑπῆρχον καὶ ταύταις ἴσαι παράλληλοι, συναγωνιζομένων αὐτοῖς Ταραντίνων ἑκατόν.
At the extremity of the wing was the squadron of three hundred cavalry, with whom he himself was to share the danger; and in front of these as a vanguard were three troops from his own pages, and equal ones parallel to them, with one hundred Tarentines fighting in alliance with them.
§19.29.6παρὰ δὲ τὸ κέρας πᾶν ἐξέταξε τοὺς κρατίστους τῶν ἐλεφάντων τριάκοντα, ποιήσας ἐπικάμπιον, καὶ τὰ διαστήματα τούτων συνεπλήρωσε τοῖς ψιλοῖς τάγμασιν ἐπιλέκτοις· τῶν δʼ ἄλλων θηρίων τὰ πλείω μὲν τῆς φάλαγγος προέστησεν, ὀλίγα δὲ μετὰ τῶν ἱππέων τῶν ἐν τοῖς εὐωνύμοις μέρεσι.
Along the entire wing he stationed thirty of the strongest elephants, forming a flank-guard, and filled up their intervals with select light-armed units; of the other beasts, he placed the majority in front of the phalanx, and a few with the cavalry in the left-wing areas.
§19.29.7τοῦτον δὲ τὸν τρόπον ἐκτάξας τὸ στρατόπεδον κατέβαινεν ἐπὶ τοὺς πολεμίους, λοξὴν ποιήσας τὴν τάξιν· τὸ μὲν γὰρ δεξιὸν κέρας, ᾧ μάλιστα ἐπίστευεν, προεβάλετο, τὸ δʼ ἕτερον ὑπεστείλατο, διεγνωκὼς ᾧ μὲν φυγομαχεῖν, ᾧ δὲ διαγωνίζεσθαι.
Having drawn up his army in this manner, he marched down against the enemy, making his line oblique; for he advanced the right wing, in which he trusted most, but held back the other, having decided to avoid battle with the latter, but to fight the decisive battle with the former.