§14Αὐταριέας δὲ φασὶν ἐκ θεοβλαβείας Ἀπόλλωνος ἐς ἔσχατον κακοῦ περιελθεῖν.
It is said that because of the anger of Apollo, the Autariates fell into the extreme of calamity.
Μολιστόμῳ γὰρ αὐτοὺς καὶ Κελτοῖς τοῖς Κίμβροις λεγομένοις ἐπὶ Δελφοῦς συστρατεῦσαι, καὶ φθαρῆναι μὲν αὐτίκα τοὺς πλέονας αὐτῶν πρὸ ἐπιχειρήσεως, ὑετῶν σφίσι καὶ θυέλλης καὶ πρηστήρων ἐμπεσοντων, ἐπιγενέσθαι δὲ τοῖς ὑποστρέψασιν ἄπειρον βατράχων πλῆθος, οἳ διασαπέντες τὰ νάματα διέφθειραν.
For they, along with Molistomus and the Celts called Cimbri, marched against Delphi, and most of them were immediately destroyed before their attack, as heavy rains, tempests, and thunderbolts fell upon them. Upon those who returned, an infinite number of frogs fell, which rotted and ruined the waters.
καὶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀτμῶν ἀτόπων γενομένων λοιμὸς ἦν Ἰλλυριῶν καὶ φθόρος Αὐταριέων μάλιστα, μέχρι φεύγοντες τὰ οἰκεῖα, καὶ τὸν λοιμὸν σφίσι περιφέροντες, οὐδενὸς αὐτοὺς δεχομένου διὰ τοῦτο τὸ δέος ὑπερῆλθον ὁδὸν ἡμερῶν εἴκοσι καὶ τριῶν, καὶ τὴν Γετῶν ἑλώδη καὶ ἀοίκητον, παρὰ τὸ Βαστερνῶν ἔθνος, ᾤκησαν.
And as strange vapors arose from the earth, a plague occurred among the Illyrians and a destruction especially among the Autariates, until, fleeing their homes and carrying the plague with them, with no one receiving them because of this dread, they traversed a journey of twenty-three days and settled in the swampy and uninhabited region of the Getae, near the nation of the Bastarnae.
Κελτοῖς δὲ ὁ θεὸς τὴν γῆν ἔσεισε καὶ τὰς πόλεις κατήνεγκε· καὶ τὸ κακὸν οὐκ ἔληγε, μέχρι καὶ οἵδε τὰ οἰκεῖα φεύγοντες ἐνέβαλον ἐς Ἰλλυριοὺς τοὺς συναμαρτοντας σφίσιν, ἀσθενεῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ λοιμοῦ γενομένους, καὶ ἐδῄωσάν τε τὰ ἐκείνων, καὶ τοῦ λοιμοῦ μετασχόντες ἔφυγον καὶ μέχρι Πυρήνης ἐλεηλάτουν.
As for the Celts, the god shook their land and cast down their cities; and the calamity did not cease until they, also fleeing their homes, fell upon the Illyrians who had sinned with them, who had become weak from the plague, and they plundered their lands, and having shared in the plague, they fled and plundered as far as Pyrene.
ἐπιστρέφουσι δʼ αὐτοῖς ἐς τὴν ἕω, Ῥωμαῖοι, δεδιότες ὑπὸ μνήμης τῶν προπεπολεμηκότων σφίσι Κελτῶν, μὴ καὶ οἵδε ἐς τὴν Ἰταλίαν ὑπὲρ Ἄλπεις ἐσβάλοιεν, ἀπήντων ἅμα τοῖς ὑπάτοις καὶ πανστρατιᾷ διώλλυντο.
When they returned to the east, the Romans, fearing from the memory of those who had previously fought against them that these Celts might also invade Italy over the Alps, met them with their consuls and entire army and were utterly destroyed.
καὶ τὸ πάθος τοῦτο Ῥωμαίων μέγα δέος Κελτῶν ἐς ὅλην τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐνέβαλε, μέχρι Γάιον Μάριον ἑλόμενοι σφῶν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι στρατηγεῖν, ἄρτι Λιβύων τοῖς Νομάσι καὶ Μαυρουσίοις ἐγκρατῶς πεπολεμηκότα, τοὺς Κίμβρους ἐνίκων καὶ πολὺν φόνον αὐτῶν εἰργάσαντο πολλάκις, ὥς μοι περὶ Κελτῶν λέγοντι εἴρηται.
This defeat of the Romans struck great fear of the Celts into all Italy, until the Romans, having chosen Gaius Marius as their general—who had recently waged war vigorously against the Nomads of Libya and the Maurusians—conquered the Cimbri and made a great slaughter of them many times, as has been said by me in speaking about the Celts.
οἱ δὲ ἀσθενεῖς τε ἤδη γενόμενοι καὶ πάσης γῆς ἀποκλειόμενοι διὰ τὸ ἀσθενές, ἐς τὰ οἰκεῖα ἐπανῆλθον πολλὰ καὶ δράσαντες καὶ παθόντες.
And those, having already become weak and being excluded from every land because of their weakness, returned to their homes after both doing and suffering much.
§15τοιοῦτον μὲν δὴ τέλος τῆς ἀσεβείας ὁ θεὸς ἐπέθηκεν Ἰλλυριοῖς τε καὶ Κελτοῖς· οὐ μὴν ἀπέσχοντο τῆς ἱεροσυλίας, ἀλλʼ αὖθις, ἅμα τοῖς Κελτοῖς, Ἰλλυριῶν οἱ Σκορδίσκοι μάλιστα καὶ Μαῖδοι καὶ Δάρδανοι τὴν Μακεδονίαν ἐπέδραμον ὁμοῦ καὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ τὸ Δελφικὸν ἐσύλησαν, πολλοὺς ἀποβαλόντες ὅμως καὶ τότε.
Such was the end of impiety that the god imposed upon the Illyrians and Celts; yet they did not abstain from temple-robbery, but again, together with the Celts, the Scordisci, Maedi, and Dardanians among the Illyrians overran Macedonia and Greece at the same time, and plundered many of the sanctuaries and the Delphic temple, although even then they lost many of their men.
Ῥωμαῖοι δʼ ἔχοντες ἤδη δεύτερον καὶ τριακοστὸν ἔτος ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἐς Κελτοὺς πείρας, καὶ ἐξ ἐκείνου πολεμοῦντες αὐτοῖς ἐκ διαστημάτων, ἐπιστρατεύουσι τοῖς Ἰλλυριοῖς ἐπὶ τῇδε τῇ ἱεροσυλίᾳ ἡγουμένου Λευκίου Σκιπίωνος, ἤδη τῶν τε Ἑλλήνων καὶ Μακεδόνων προστατοῦντες.
The Romans, now in the thirty-second year since their first experience with the Celts, and fighting them at intervals since then, marched against the Illyrians on account of this temple-robbery under the leadership of Lucius Scipio, being already protectors of both the Greeks and the Macedonians.
καί φασι τοὺς μὲν περιχώρους οὐ συμμαχῆσαι τοῖς ἱεροσύλοις, ἀλλʼ ἑκόντας ἐγκαταλιπεῖν τῷ Σκιπίωνι ἀβοηθήτους, μνήμῃ τῶν διʼ Αὐταριέας ἐς πάντας Ἰλλυριοὺς συμπεσόντων·
And they say that the neighbors did not join in alliance with the temple-robbers, but willingly left them helpless to Scipio, because of the memory of what had befallen all the Illyrians on account of the Autariates.
Σκιπίωνα δὲ Σκορδίσκους μὲν διαφθεῖραι, καὶ εἴ τι λοιπὸν αὐτῶν ἦν, ἐς τὸν Ἴστρον καὶ τὰς νήσους τοῦ ποταμοῦ μετοικῆσαι φυγόντας, Μαίδοις δὲ καὶ Δαρδανεῦσι συνθέσθαι δωροδοκήσαντα τοῦ ἱεροῦ χρυσίου.
Scipio destroyed the Scordisci, and if any remnant of them was left, they fled to the Ister and the islands of the river to settle, but he made peace with the Maedi and the Dardanians, having accepted bribes of the temple gold.
καί τις ἔφη τῶν Ἰταλικῶν συγγραφέων ὡς διὰ τοῦτο μάλιστα Ῥωμαίοις πλεόνως μετὰ Λεύκιον τὰ ἐμφύλια ἤκμασε μέχρι μοναρχίας·
And one of the Italian historians said that for this reason especially, civil wars flourished even more among the Romans after Lucius, until they reached monarchy.
καὶ περὶ μὲν τῶν νομιζομένων εἶναι τοῖς Ἕλλησιν Ἰλλυριῶν τοσαῦτά μοι προλελέχθω.
Let so much be said by way of introduction about those of the Illyrians who are considered to be so by the Greeks.
§16Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ καὶ τούσδε καὶ Παίονας ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ Ῥαιτοὺς καὶ Νωρικοὺς καὶ Μυσοὺς τοὺς ἐν Εὐρώτῃ, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα ὅμορα τούτοις ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Ἴστρου καταπλέοντι ᾤκηται, διαιροῦσι μὲν ὁμοίως τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἀπὸ Ἑλλήνων, καὶ καλοῦσι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἑκάστους ὀνόμασι, κοινῇ δὲ πάντας Ἰλλυρίδα ἡγοῦνται, ὅθεν μὲν ἀρξάμενοι τῆσδε τῆς δόξης, οὐκ ἔσχον εὑρεῖν, χρώμενοι δʼ αὐτῇ καὶ νῦν, ὅπου καὶ τὸ τέλος τῶνδε τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἀπὸ ἀνίσχοντος Ἴστρου μέχρι τῆς Ποντικῆς θαλάσσης, ὑφʼ ἓν ἐκμισθοῦσι καὶ Ἰλλυρικὸν τέλος προσαγορεύουσιν.
But the Romans divide both these and the Paeonians next to them, the Rhaetians, the Noricans, the Mysians in Europe, and all the other neighbors of these who dwell on the right of the Ister as one sails down, in the same manner as the Greeks do from the Greeks, and call each by their own names, but collectively they consider them all to be Illyris. Whence they started using this opinion, I was not able to find, but they use it even now, and where they lease out the taxes of these nations as a single unit, from the rising Ister to the Pontic Sea, they call it the Illyrian tax.
ὅπως δὲ αὐτοὺς ὑπηγάγοντο Ῥωμαῖοι, ὡμολόγησα μὲν καὶ περὶ Κρήτης λέγων οὐχ εὑρεῖν τὰς ἀκριβεῖς τῶν πολέμων ἀρχάς τε καὶ προφάσεις, καὶ ἐς τοῦτο τοὺς δυναμένους τι πλέον εἰπεῖν παρεκάλουν· ὅσα δʼ αὐτὸς ἔγνων, ἀναγράψω.
How the Romans subdued them, I have confessed, even when speaking about Crete, that I did not find the exact beginnings and pretexts of the wars, and I invited those who were able to say something more to do so; but what I myself have learned, I will write down.