§20.72.1ἀκούσας γὰρ τὴν τῶν υἱῶν ἀναίρεσιν καὶ διʼ ὀργῆς ἔχων ἅπαντας τοὺς ἀπολελειμμένους κατὰ Λιβύην ἔπεμψε τῶν φίλων τινὰς εἰς Συρακούσσας πρὸς Ἄντανδρον τὸν ἀδελφόν, διακελευσάμενος τοὺς τῶν συστρατευσάντων ἐπὶ Καρχηδόνα συγγενεῖς ἅπαντας ἀποσφάξαι.
For when Agathocles heard of the murder of his sons and was filled with anger against all those who had been left behind in Libya, he sent some of his friends to Syracuse to his brother Antander, ordering him to slaughter all the relatives of those who had campaigned with him against Carthage.
§20.72.2ταχὺ δὲ τούτου τὸ προσταχθὲν ποιήσαντος ποικιλώτατον γενέσθαι συνέβη φόνον τῶν προγεγονότων· οὐ γὰρ μόνον τοὺς ἀκμάζοντας ταῖς ἡλικίαις ἀδελφοὺς ἢ πατέρας ἢ παῖδας ἐξῆγεν ἐπὶ τὸν θάνατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάππους καὶ τούτων, εἰ τύχοι, καὶ πατέρας περιόντας ἐσχατογήρους καὶ ταῖς ὅλαις αἰσθήσεσι διὰ τὸν χρόνον ἤδη παραλελυμένους, ἔτι δὲ νηπίους παῖδας ἐν ἀγκάλαις φερομένους καὶ τῆς ἐπιφερομένης αὐτοῖς συμφορᾶς οὐδεμίαν αἴσθησιν λαμβάνοντας.
And when Antander quickly executed what had been commanded, there occurred a slaughter more varied than any that had gone before; for he led out to death not only brothers or fathers or children in the prime of their age, but also grandfathers and, if they happened to survive, even their fathers, who were in extreme old age and already paralyzed in all their senses because of time, and furthermore, infant children carried in arms and having no perception of the calamity brought upon them.
ἤγοντο δὲ καὶ γυναῖκες ὅσαι μετεῖχον οἰκειότητος ἢ συγγενείας καὶ καθόλου πᾶς ὁ μέλλων τῇ καθʼ αὑτὸν τιμωρίᾳ λύπην ἐμποιῆσαι τοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς Λιβύης ἀπολειφθεῖσι.
And there were also led out all the women who shared any relationship or kinship, and in short, everyone who, by his own punishment, was likely to inflict grief upon those left behind in Libya.
§20.72.3πολλοῦ δὲ πλήθους καὶ παντοίου πρὸς τὴν θάλατταν ἀχθέντος ἐπὶ τὴν τιμωρίαν καὶ τῶν σφαγέων ἐφεστώτων δάκρυα καὶ δεήσεις καὶ θρῆνος ἐγίνετο συμφορητός, ὧν μὲν ἀνηλεῶς φονευομένων, ὧν δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν πλησίον συμφοραῖς ἐκπληττομένων καὶ διὰ τὸ προσδοκώμενον οὐδὲν διαφερόντων §20.72.4ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν προαποθνησκόντων.
When a great and diverse multitude was led to the sea for execution and the slaughterers stood over them, there arose a combined weeping, supplication, and lamentation, while some were being mercilessly slaughtered, and others were stunned by the calamities of their neighbors, and because of what they expected, differed in no way in their souls from those who were dying before them.
τὸ δὲ πάντων χαλεπώτατον, πολλῶν ἀναιρεθέντων καὶ παρὰ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν ἐρριμμένων τῶν σωμάτων οὔτε συγγενὴς οὐδεὶς οὔτε φίλος ἐτόλμα τινὰ κηδεύειν, φοβούμενος μὴ δόξῃ προσαγγέλλειν ἑαυτὸν μετέχοντα τῆς ἐκείνων οἰκειότητος.
But what was most cruel of all, though many had been slain and their bodies cast along the shore, neither any relative nor friend dared to bury anyone, fearing lest he should seem to declare himself as sharing in their relationship.
§20.72.5διὰ δὲ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν φονευθέντων ἐπὶ τοῦ κύματος συνέβη τὴν θάλατταν ἐφʼ ἱκανὸν τόπον αἵματι κραθεῖσαν πόρρωθεν διαφαίνειν τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς τοῦ πάθους ὠμότητος.
Because of the multitude of those slaughtered upon the surf, it happened that the sea, mixed with blood over a considerable space, revealed even from afar the extreme cruelty of the suffering.