§1.38.1οἱ δὲ Καρχηδόνιοι, συνέντες τὸν γεγονότα φθόρον τοῦ τῶν Ῥωμαίων στόλου καὶ νομίσαντες κατὰ μὲν γῆν ἀξιόχρεως σφᾶς εἶναι διὰ τὸ προγεγονὸς εὐτύχημα, κατὰ δὲ θάλατταν διὰ τὴν εἰρημένην τῶν Ῥωμαίων περιπέτειαν, ὥρμησαν προθυμότερον ἐπί τε τὰς ναυτικὰς καὶ πεζικὰς παρασκευάς.
The Carthaginians, learning of the destruction that had befallen the Roman fleet and thinking that on land they were a match for them owing to their previous success, and at sea owing to the aforementioned disaster of the Romans, set to work with greater zeal on both their naval and military preparations.
§1.38.2καὶ τὸν μὲν Ἀσδρούβαν εὐθὺς ἐξαπέστελλον εἰς τὴν Σικελίαν, δόντες αὐτῷ τούς τε προϋπάρχοντας καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἡρακλείας παραγεγονότας στρατιώτας, ἅμα δὲ τούτοις ἐλέφαντας ἑκατὸν καὶ τετταράκοντα.
And they immediately dispatched Hasdrubal to Sicily, giving him both the soldiers who were already there and those who had arrived from Heracleia, and along with these, one hundred and forty elephants.
§1.38.3τοῦτον δʼ ἐκπέμψαντες διακοσίας κατεσκευάζοντο ναῦς καὶ τἄλλα τὰ πρὸς τὸν πλοῦν ἡτοίμαζον.
Having sent him off, they began to build two hundred ships and prepare other things necessary for the voyage.
§1.38.4ὁ δʼ Ἀσδρούβας διακομισθεὶς εἰς τὸ Λιλύβαιον ἀσφαλῶς τά τε θηρία καὶ τὰς δυνάμεις ἐγύμναζεν καὶ δῆλος ἦν ἀντιποιησόμενος τῶν ὑπαίθρων.
Hasdrubal, having crossed safely to Lilybaeum, trained the beasts and his forces, and made it clear that he intended to dispute the possession of the open country.
§1.38.5Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ τῶν ἐκ τῆς ναυαγίας ἀνακομισθέντων διακούσαντες τὸ κατὰ μέρος βαρέως μὲν ἤνεγκαν τὸ γεγονός· οὐ βουλόμενοι δὲ καθάπαξ εἴκειν, αὖθις ἔγνωσαν ἐκ δρυόχων εἴκοσι καὶ διακόσια ναυπηγεῖσθαι σκάφη.
The Romans, on hearing the details from those who had been rescued from the shipwreck, took the event heavily; but not wishing to give in once and for all, they resolved once more to build two hundred and twenty ships from the keel up.
§1.38.6τούτων δὲ τὴν συντέλειαν ἐν τριμήνῳ λαβόντων, ὅπερ οὐδὲ πιστεῦσαι ῥᾴδιον, εὐθέως οἱ κατασταθέντες ἄρχοντες Αὖλος Ἀτίλιος καὶ Γνάιος Κορνήλιος καταρτίσαντες τὸν στόλον ἀνήχθησαν, §1.38.7καὶ πλεύσαντες διὰ πορθμοῦ προσέλαβον ἐκ τῆς Μεσσήνης τὰ διασωθέντα τῶν πλοίων ἐκ τῆς ναυαγίας καὶ κατάραντες εἰς Πάνορμον τῆς Σικελίας τριακοσίαις ναυσίν, ἥπερ ἦν βαρυτάτη πόλις τῆς Καρχηδονίων ἐπαρχίας, ἐνεχείρησαν αὐτὴν πολιορκεῖν.
When these were completed in three months—a thing indeed difficult to believe—immediately the appointed consuls, Aulus Atilius and Gnaeus Cornelius, having equipped the fleet, put to sea, and sailing through the strait, they took with them from Messene the ships that had been saved from the wreck, and having put in at Panormus in Sicily with three hundred ships, which was the most important city of the Carthaginian province, they undertook to besiege it.
§1.38.8συστησάμενοι δὲ κατὰ διττοὺς τόπους ἔργα καὶ τἄλλα παρασκευασάμενοι προσήγαγον τὰς μηχανάς.
Having constructed works at two places and made all other preparations, they brought up their siege engines.
§1.38.9ῥᾳδίως δὲ τοῦ παρὰ θάλατταν πύργου πεσόντος, καὶ βιασαμένων ταύτῃ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, ἡ μὲν καλουμένη Νέα πόλις ἑαλώκει κατὰ κράτος· ἡ δὲ Παλαιὰ προσαγορευομένη τούτου συμβάντος ἐκινδύνευσεν. διὸ καὶ ταχέως ἐνέδωκαν αὐτὴν οἱ κατοικοῦντες.
When the tower by the sea fell easily and the soldiers forced their way through here, the part called the New Town was taken by storm; and upon this happening, the part called the Old Town was endangered, so that its inhabitants quickly surrendered it.
§1.38.10γενόμενοι δʼ ἐγκρατεῖς οὗτοι μὲν ἀπέπλευσαν εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην,
Having made themselves masters of these, they sailed back to Rome,