§27Ἄγρων ἦν βασιλεὺς Ἰλλυριῶν μέρους ἀμφὶ τὸν κόλπον τῆς θαλάσσης τὸν Ἰόνιον, ὃν δὴ καὶ Πύρρος ὁ τῆς Ἠπείρου βασιλεὺς κατεῖχε καὶ οἱ τὰ Πύρρου διαδεξάμενοι.
Agron was king of a part of the Illyrians around the Ionian Gulf, which indeed Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, and his successors had held.
Ἄγρων δʼ ἔμπαλιν τῆς τε Ἠπείρου τινὰ καὶ Κόρκυραν ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ Ἐπίδαμνον καὶ Φάρον καταλαβὼν ἔμφρουρα εἶχεν.
Agron, on the contrary, having seized a part of Epirus, and in addition to them Corcyra, Epidamnus, and Pharos, held them with garrisons.
ἐπιπλέοντος δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν ἄλλον Ἰόνιον, νῆσος, ᾗ ὄνομα Ἴσσα, ἐπὶ Ῥωμαίους κατέφυγεν.
But while he was sailing against the rest of the Ionian Sea, an island named Issa fled to the Romans for refuge.
οἱ δὲ πρέσβεις τοῖς Ἰσσίοις συνέπεμψαν, εἰσομένους τὰ Ἄγρωνος ἐς αὐτοὺς ἐγκλήματα.
And they sent ambassadors along with the Issaeans to learn what complaints Agron had against them.
τοῖς δὲ πρέσβεσιν ἔτι προσπλέουσιν ἐπαναχθέντες Ἰλλυρικοὶ λέμβοι τῶν μὲν Ἰσσίων πρεσβευτὴν Κλεέμπορον, τῶν δὲ Ῥωμαίων Κορογκάνιον ἀναιροῦσιν· οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ διέδρασαν αὐτούς.
But while the ambassadors were still sailing toward them, Illyrian light boats put out to sea and killed Cleemporus, the ambassador of the Issaeans, and Coruncanius, the ambassador of the Romans; and the rest escaped them.
καὶ ἐπὶ τῷδε Ῥωμαίων ἐπʼ Ἰλλυριοὺς ναυσὶν ὁμοῦ καὶ πεζῷ στρατευόντων, Ἄγρων μὲν ἐπὶ παιδίῳ σμικρῷ, Πίννῃ ὄνομα, ἀποθνήσκει, τῇ γυναικὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπιτροπεύειν τῷ παιδὶ παραδούς, καίπερ οὐκ οὔσῃ μητρὶ τοῦ παιδίου, Δημήτριος δʼ ὁ Φάρου ἡγούμενος Ἄγρωνι (Φάρου τε γὰρ αὐτῆς ἦρχε, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇδε Κορκύρας) παρέδωκεν ἄμφω Ῥωμαίοις ἐπιπλέουσιν ἐκ προδοσίας.
And because of this, when the Romans made war on the Illyrians with both ships and land forces, Agron died, leaving behind a small boy named Pinnes, having handed over the government to his wife to act as guardian for the boy, although she was not the mother of the child. But Demetrius, who was Agron's governor of Pharos (for he ruled Pharos itself, and in addition to it, Corcyra), delivered both by treachery to the Romans as they sailed against them.
οἱ δʼ ἐπὶ ταύταις Ἐπίδαμνον ἐς φιλίαν ὑπηγάγοντο, καὶ τοῖς Ἰσσίοις καὶ Ἐπιδαμνίοις πολιορκουμένοις ὑπὸ Ἰλλυριῶν ἐς ἐπικουρίαν ἔπλεον.
And they, after these, brought Epidamnus into friendship, and sailed to the assistance of the Issaeans and Epidamnians, who were besieged by the Illyrians.
Ἰλλυριοὶ μὲν δὴ τὰς πολιορκίας λύσαντες ἀνεχώρουν, καί τινες αὐτῶν ἐς Ῥωμαίους, οἱ Ἀτιντανοὶ λεγόμενοι, μετετίθεντο.
The Illyrians indeed raised the sieges and retreated, and some of them, called the Atintani, went over to the Romans.
μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ ἡ Ἄγρωνος γυνὴ πρέσβεις ἐς Ῥώμην ἔπεμψε τά τε αἰχμάλωτα ἀποδιδόντας αὐτοῖς καὶ τοὺς αὐτομόλους ἄγοντας, καὶ ἐδεῖτο συγγνώμης τυχεῖν τῶν οὐκ ἐφʼ ἑαυτῆς ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ Ἄγρωνος γενομένων.
After this, the wife of Agron sent ambassadors to Rome, who returned the prisoners to them and brought back the deserters, and she begged to obtain pardon for what had been done not in her own time, but in the time of Agron.
οἱ δὲ ἀπεκρίναντο Κόρκυραν μὲν καὶ Φάρον καὶ Ἴσσαν καὶ Ἐπίδαμνον καὶ Ἰλλυριῶν τοὺς Ἀτιντανοὺς ἤδη Ῥωμαίων ὑπηκόους εἶναι, Πίννην δὲ τὴν ἄλλην Ἄγρωνος ἀρχὴν ἔχειν καὶ φίλον εἶναι Ῥωμαίοις, ἢν ἀπέχηταί τε τῶν προλελεγμένων, καὶ τὴν Λίσσον μὴ παραπλέωσιν Ἰλλυρικοὶ λέμβοι δυοῖν πλείονες, καὶ τούτοιν δὲ ἀνόπλοιν.
But they replied that Corcyra, Pharos, Issa, Epidamnus, and the Atintani among the Illyrians were already subjects of the Romans, but that Pinnes should have the rest of Agron's dominion and be a friend to the Romans, provided that he kept away from the aforementioned places, and that no more than two Illyrian light boats should sail past Lissus, and those unarmed.
§28ἡ μὲν δὴ ταῦτα πάντα ἐδέχετο, καὶ γίγνονται Ῥωμαίοις αἵδε πρῶται πρὸς Ἰλλυριοὺς πεῖραί τε καὶ συνθῆκαι·
She indeed accepted all these things, and these became the first experiences and treaties for the Romans with the Illyrians.
Ῥωμαῖοι δʼ ἐπʼ αὐταῖς Κόρκυραν μὲν καὶ Ἀπολλωνίαν ἀφῆκαν ἐλευθέρας, Δημητρίῳ δʼ ἔστιν ἃ χωρία μισθὸν ἔδοσαν τῆς προδοσίας, ἐπειπόντες ὅτι ἐν τοσῷδε διδόασι, τὴν ἀπιστίαν ἄρα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὑφορώμενοι.
The Romans, after these, left Corcyra and Apollonia free, and to Demetrius they gave certain places as a reward for his treachery, adding that they gave them only for the time being, as they suspected the man's faithlessness.
ἣ δὴ καὶ ἦρξεν αὐτοῦ μετʼ ὀλίγον·
Which indeed also began to influence him a little later.
Ῥωμαίων γὰρ Κελτοῖς ἐπὶ τριετὲς τοῖς ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἠριδανὸν οὖσι πολεμούντων, ὁ Δημήτριος ὡς ὄντων ἐν ἀσχολίᾳ τὴν θάλασσαν ἐλῄζετο, καὶ Ἴστρους ἔθνος ἕτερον Ἰλλυριῶν ἐς τοῦτο προσελάμβανε, καὶ τοὺς Ἀτιντανοὺς ἀπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἀφίστη.
For while the Romans were waging war for three years with the Celts around the Eridanus, Demetrius, on the ground that they were occupied, plundered the sea, and associated the Istri, another tribe of Illyrians, with himself for this purpose, and revolted the Atintani from the Romans.
οἱ δέ, ἐπεὶ τὰ Κελτῶν διετέθειτο, εὐθὺς μὲν ἐπιπλεύσαντες αἱροῦσι τοὺς λῃστάς, ἐς νεώτα δὲ ἐστράτευον ἐπὶ Δημήτριον καὶ Ἰλλυριῶν τοὺς συναμαρτόντας αὐτῷ.
But they, when the affairs of the Celts had been settled, immediately sailed and captured the pirates, and in the following year they marched against Demetrius and those of the Illyrians who had shared in his offences.
Δημήτριον μὲν δὴ πρὸς Φίλιππον τὸν Μακεδόνων βασιλέα φυγόντα καὶ αὖθις ἐπιόντα καὶ λῃστεύοντα τὸν Ἰόνιον κτείνουσι, καὶ τὴν πατρίδα αὐτῷ Φάρον συναμαρτοῦσαν ἐπικατέσκαψαν, Ἰλλυριῶν δʼ ἐφείσαντο διὰ Πίννην αὖθις δεηθέντα.
Demetrius, indeed, who had fled to Philip, the king of the Macedonians, and returned again to plunder the Ionian Sea, they killed, and they razed to the ground his homeland Pharos which had shared in his guilt; but they spared the Illyrians because Pinnes begged them again.
καὶ δεύτεραι πεῖραί τε καὶ συνθῆκαι πρὸς Ἰλλυριοὺς αὐτοῖς ἐγίγνοντο.
And the second experience and treaty with the Illyrians was made by them.