§4.16.1οἱ δʼ Ἠπειρῶται καὶ Φίλιππος ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀκούσαντες τῶν πρέσβεων τοὺς μὲν Μεσσηνίους εἰς τὴν συμμαχίαν προσέλαβον, §4.16.2ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς ὑπὸ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν πεπραγμένοις παραυτίκα μὲν ἠγανάκτησαν, οὐ μὴν ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐθαύμασαν, διὰ τὸ μηδὲν παράδοξον, τῶν εἰθισμένων δέ τι πεποιηκέναι τοὺς Αἰτωλούς.
The Epirotes and King Philip, after hearing the envoys, admitted the Messenians into the alliance, and while they were immediately indignant at the actions of the Aetolians, they were not particularly surprised, because there was nothing unexpected about them, but rather that the Aetolians had done something characteristic of their usual habits.
§4.16.3διόπερ οὐδʼ ὠργίσθησαν ἐπὶ πλεῖον, ἀλλʼ ἐψηφίσαντο τὴν εἰρήνην ἄγειν πρὸς αὐτούς· οὕτως ἡ συνεχὴς ἀδικία συγγνώμης τυγχάνει μᾶλλον τῆς σπανίου καὶ παραδόξου πονηρίας.
For this reason, they did not even become further enraged, but voted to maintain peace with them; so it is that constant injustice meets with indulgence more than rare and unexpected wickedness.
§4.16.4Αἰτωλοὶ γοῦν τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ χρώμενοι, καὶ λῃστεύοντες συνεχῶς τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ πολέμους ἀνεπαγγέλτους φέροντες πολλοῖς, οὐδʼ ἀπολογίας ἔτι κατηξίουν τοὺς ἐγκαλοῦντας, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσεχλεύαζον, εἴ τις αὐτοὺς εἰς δικαιοδοσίας προκαλοῖτο περὶ τῶν γεγονότων ἢ καὶ νὴ Δία τῶν μελλόντων.
At any rate, the Aetolians, practicing this method, constantly plundering Greece and bringing undeclared wars upon many, no longer even deigned to offer any defense to their accusers, but actually scoffed if anyone summoned them to legal arbitration concerning past events or indeed, by Zeus, future ones.
§4.16.5οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, προσφάτως μὲν ἠλευθερωμένοι διʼ Ἀντιγόνου καὶ διὰ τῆς τῶν Ἀχαιῶν φιλοτιμίας, ὀφείλοντες δὲ Μακεδόσι καὶ Φιλίππῳ μηδὲν ὑπεναντίον πράττειν, διαπεμψάμενοι λάθρᾳ πρὸς τοὺς Αἰτωλοὺς φιλίαν διʼ ἀπορρήτων ἔθεντο καὶ συμμαχίαν.
The Lacedaemonians, on the other hand, though recently liberated through Antigonus and the devotion of the Achaeans, and owing it to the Macedonians and Philip to do nothing contrary to their interests, sent secret messengers to the Aetolians and privately established friendship and alliance with them.
§4.16.6ἤδη δʼ ἐπιλελεγμένων τῶν Ἀχαϊκῶν νεανίσκων καὶ συντεταγμένων ὑπὲρ τῆς βοηθείας τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ Μεσσηνίων, Σκερδιλαΐδας ὁμοῦ καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ Φάριος ἔπλευσαν ἐκ τῆς Ἰλλυρίδος ἐν ἐνενήκοντα λέμβοις ἔξω τοῦ Λίσσου παρὰ τὰς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους συνθήκας.
When the Achaean youth had already been selected and organized for the assistance of the Lacedaemonians and Messenians, Scerdilaidas and Demetrius of Pharos sailed together from Illyria with ninety lembi beyond Lissus, in violation of their treaty with the Romans.
§4.16.7οἳ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον τῇ Πύλῳ προσμίξαντες καὶ ποιησάμενοι προσβολὰς ἀπέπεσον· §4.16.8μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Δημήτριος μὲν ἔχων τοὺς πεντήκοντα τῶν λέμβων ὥρμησεν ἐπὶ νήσων, καὶ περιπλέων τινὰς μὲν ἠργυρολόγει, τινὰς δʼ ἐπόρθει τῶν Κυκλάδων· §4.16.9Σκερδιλαΐδας δὲ ποιούμενος τὸν πλοῦν ὡς ἐπʼ οἴκου προσεῖχε πρὸς Ναύπακτον μετὰ τετταράκοντα λέμβων, πεισθεὶς Ἀμυνᾷ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀθαμάνων, ὃς ἐτύγχανε κηδεστὴς ὑπάρχων αὐτοῦ.
These, having first approached Pylos and made assaults upon it, were repulsed; but after this Demetrius, with fifty of the lembi, set out for the islands, and sailing around, extorted money from some and plundered others of the Cyclades; while Scerdilaidas, making his voyage as if for home, put in at Naupactus with forty lembi, having been persuaded by Amynas, the king of the Athamanes, who happened to be his brother-in-law.
§4.16.10ποιησάμενος δὲ συνθήκας πρὸς Αἰτωλοὺς διʼ Ἀγελάου περὶ τοῦ μερισμοῦ τῶν λαφύρων, ὑπέσχετο συνεμβαλεῖν ὁμόσε τοῖς Αἰτωλοῖς εἰς τὴν Ἀχαΐαν.
Having made an agreement with the Aetolians through Agelaus regarding the division of the spoils, he promised to join them in invading Achaea.
§4.16.11συνθέμενοι δὲ ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν Σκερδιλαΐδαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἀγέλαον καὶ Δωρίμαχον καὶ Σκόπαν, πραττομένης αὐτοῖς τῆς τῶν Κυναιθέων πόλεως, συναθροίσαντες πανδημεὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλοὺς ἐνέβαλον εἰς
Having agreed on these terms with Scerdilaidas, Agelaus, Dorimachus, Scopas, and their associates, since the city of the Cynaethians was being betrayed to them, assembled the Aetolians in a body and invaded [Achaea].