§29τὰ λοιπὰ δʼ οὔτι μοι πάντα χρόνῳ καὶ τάξει μᾶλλον ἢ κατὰ ἔθνος Ἰλλυριῶν ἕκαστον, ὅσα ηὗρον, συγγέγραπται.
The rest, as many as I found, have been written down by me not so much in order of time and sequence as by each individual tribe of the Illyrians.
Ῥωμαῖοι Μακεδόσιν ἐπολέμουν, καὶ Περσεὺς ἦν ἤδη Μακεδόνων βασιλεὺς μετὰ Φίλιππον·
The Romans were waging war against the Macedonians, and Perseus was already king of the Macedonians after Philip.
Περσεῖ δὲ Γένθιος Ἰλλυριῶν ἑτέρων βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ χρήμασι συνεμάχει, καὶ ἐς τοὺς Ῥωμαίων Ἰλλυριοὺς ἐνέβαλε, καὶ πρέσβεις Ῥωμαίων πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐλθόντας ἔδησεν, αἰτιώμενος οὐ πρέσβεις ἀλλὰ κατασκόπους ἐλθεῖν.
Genthius, the king of other Illyrians, allied with Perseus for money, and invaded the Illyrians under Roman rule, and bound the Roman ambassadors who came to him, accusing them of having come not as ambassadors but as spies.
Ἀνίκιος δὲ Ῥωμαίων στρατηγὸς λέμβους τε τοῦ Γενθίου τινὰς εἷλεν ἐπιπλεύσας, καὶ κατὰ γῆν αὐτῷ συνενεχθεὶς ἐκράτει τὴν μάχην, καὶ συνέκλεισεν ἔς τι χωρίον, ὅθεν αὐτῷ δεομένῳ ὁ μὲν Ἀνίκιος ἐκέλευσε Ῥωμαίοις ἑαυτὸν ἐπιτρέψαι, ὁ δʼ ἐς βουλὴν ᾔτησε τρεῖς ἡμέρας, καὶ ἔλαβεν.
Anicius, a Roman general, sailed against them and captured some of Genthius's light boats, and having encountered him on land, won the battle, and shut him up in a certain place, from where, as Genthius begged him, Anicius ordered him to surrender himself to the Romans; but he asked for three days to deliberate, and obtained them.
ἐν δὲ ταύταις τῶν ὑπηκόων αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν Ἀνίκιον μετατιθεμένων ἠξίωσεν ἐντυχεῖν τῷ Ἀνικίῳ, καὶ γονυπετὴς ἐδεῖτο αὐτοῦ πάνυ αἰσχρῶς.
During these days, as his subjects were going over to Anicius, he requested to meet Anicius, and fell at his knees begging very shamefully.
ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπιθαρρύνων κατεπτηχότα ἀνίστη, καὶ καλέσας ἐπὶ ἑστίασιν, ἀπιόντα ἀπὸ τοῦ δείπνου προσέταξε τοῖς ὑπηρέταις ἐς φυλακὴν ἐμβαλεῖν.
But Anicius, encouraging him as he cowered, raised him up, and having invited him to a feast, ordered his attendants to cast him into prison as he was leaving from the dinner.
καὶ τόνδε μὲν ἐς θρίαμβον ἅμα τοῖς παισὶν ὁ Ἀνίκιος ἐς Ῥώμην ἤγαγε, καὶ ὁ Γενθίου πόλεμος ἅπας εἴκοσιν ἡμέραις ἐπεπολέμητο·
And Anicius led this man to Rome for a triumph along with his children, and the entire war against Genthius had been fought in twenty days.
ἑβδομήκοντα δʼ αὐτοῦ πόλεις οὔσας Αἰμίλιος Παῦλος ὁ τὸν Περσέα ἑλών, τῆς βουλῆς ἐπιστειλάσης ἐν ἀπορρήτῳ, ἐς Ῥώμην παρώδευεν ἐπίτηδες, καὶ δεδιόσιν αὐτοῖς ὑπέσχετο συγγνώσεσθαι τῶν γεγονότων, ἐὰν ὅσον ἔχουσιν ἀργύριόν τε καὶ χρυσίον ἐσενέγκωσιν.
But Aemilius Paulus, who had captured Perseus, received secret instructions from the Senate and intentionally passed by his seventy cities on his way to Rome, and promised to pardon them for what had happened if they would bring in all the silver and gold they had, as they were afraid.
ὑποδεξαμένων δʼ ἐκείνων συνέπεμπεν αὐτοῖς τοῦ στρατοῦ μέρος ἐς πόλιν ἑκάστην, ὁρίσας ἡμέραν τοῖς στρατηγοῦσι τοῦ στρατοῦ πᾶσι τὴν αὐτήν, καὶ ἐντειλάμενος ἅμα ἕῳ κηρύσσειν ἕκαστον ἐν ἑκάστῃ πόλει τρισὶν ὥραις ἐς τὴν ἀγορὰν τὰ χρήματα φέρειν, συνενεγκόντων δὲ τὰ λοιπὰ διαρπάσαι.
When they accepted this, he sent a portion of his army with them to each city, having appointed the same day for all the commanders of the army, and having ordered them to proclaim at dawn in each city for three hours that they must bring the money to the market-place, and after they had brought it, to plunder the rest.
§210οὕτω μὲν ὁ Παῦλος ἑβδομήκοντα πόλεις διήρπασεν ὥρᾳ μιᾷ·
Thus Paulus plundered seventy cities in one hour.
Ἀρδεῖοι δὲ καὶ Παλάριοι, γένη ἕτερα Ἰλλυριῶν, τὴν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίους Ἰλλυρίδα ἐδῄουν, καὶ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι διʼ ἀσχολίαν πρέσβεις ἔπεμψαν ἐπιπλήξοντας αὐτοῖς.
But the Ardaei and the Palarii, other tribes of the Illyrians, were ravaging the Illyria under Roman rule, and the Romans, because of their preoccupation, sent ambassadors to rebuke them.
οὐ μεταθεμένων δὲ ἐκείνων ἐστράτευον ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς μυρίοις πεζοῖς καὶ ἱππεῦσιν ἑξακοσιοις.
But when they did not reform, they marched against them with ten thousand infantry and six hundred cavalry.
οἱ δὲ πυθόμενοι, καὶ ἔτι ὄντες ἀπαράσκευοι, πρέσβεις ἔπεμψαν μεταγιγνώσκοντες καὶ δεόμενοι.
And they, having heard of this, and being still unprepared, sent ambassadors, repenting and begging.
καὶ ἡ βουλὴ τὰς βλάβας αὐτοῖς ἐκέλευσεν ἀποδοῦναι τοῖς ἠδικημένοις.
And the Senate ordered them to pay damages to those who had been wronged.
οὐκ ἀποδιδόντων δὲ ἐστράτευεν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς Φούλουιος Φλάκκος.
But as they did not pay, Fulvius Flaccus marched against them.
καὶ ὁ πόλεμος ἄρα μέχρι καταδρομῆς ἔληξε μόνης.
And indeed the war ended only in a raid.
οὐ γὰρ ηὗρον αὐτοῦ τέλος ἀκριβές.
For I did not find its exact end.
Ἰάποσι δὲ τοῖς ἐντὸς Ἄλπεων ἐπολέμησε μὲν Σεμπρώνιος ὁ Τουδιτανὸς ἐπίκλην καὶ Πανδούσας Τιβέριος καὶ ἐοίκασιν οἱ Ἰάποδες αὐτοῖς ὑπακοῦσαι, ἐοίκασι δὲ καὶ Σεγεστανοὶ Λευκίῳ Κόττᾳ καὶ Μετέλλῳ, ἀμφότεροι δʼ οὐ πολὺ ὕστερον ἀποστῆναι.
Sempronius, surnamed Tuditanus, and Tiberius Pandusa made war on the Iapodes within the Alps, and the Iapodes seem to have submitted to them, and the Segestani also seem to have submitted to Lucius Cotta and Metellus, but both revolted not long after.
§211Δαλμάται δέ, Ἰλλυριῶν ἕτερον γένος, Ἰλλυριοὺς τοὺς ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίοις κατέθεον, καὶ πρέσβεις ἀφικομένους περὶ τοῦδε Ῥωμαίων οὐ προσίεντο.
The Dalmatians, another tribe of the Illyrians, were overrunning the Illyrians under Roman rule, and did not admit the Roman ambassadors who arrived concerning this.
στρατεύουσιν οὖν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι, Μαρκίου Φίγλου σφῶν ὑπατεύοντός τε καὶ ἐς τὸν πόλεμον ἡγουμένου.
Therefore, the Romans marched against them, with Marcius Figulus as their consul and leader in the war.
οἱ δὲ ἄρτι τοῦ Φίγλου παραστρατοπεδεύοντος τὰς φυλακὰς ἐνίκων ἐπίδραμόντες, καὶ αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ στρατοπέδου κατήραξαν ἐς πεδίον πρανές, μέχρι ἐπὶ Νάρωνα ποταμὸν ἧκεν ὑποφεύγων.
But while Figulus was just pitching camp, they overran and defeated the guards, and drove him out of the camp into a sloping plain, until he came fleeing to the river Naro.
ὡς δὲ οἱ μὲν ἀνεχώρουν, ἀρχὴ δὲ χειμῶνος ἦν, ὁ Φίγλος ἐλπίσας αὐτοῖς ἀδοκήτως ἐπιπεσεῖσθαι συνερρυηκότας ηὗρεν ἐκ τῶν πόλεων πρὸς τὴν ἔφοδον αὐτοῦ.
But when they retreated and it was the beginning of winter, Figulus, hoping to fall upon them unexpectedly, found them gathered from the cities against his approach.
καὶ συνήλασεν ὅμως ἐς πόλιν Δελμίνιον, ὅθεν ἄρα καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῖς ἐς Δελματέας, εἶτα Δαλμάτας ἐτράπη.
Nevertheless, he drove them together into the city of Delminium, from which indeed their name was turned into Delmateans, and then Dalmatians.
οὐδὲν δὲ πρὸς ἐχυρὰν πόλιν ἐξ ἐφόδου δυνάμενος, οὐδὲ μηχανήμασιν ἔχων χρῆσθαι διὰ τὸ ὕψος, ᾕρει τὰς ἄλλας ἐπιθέων, ἐρημοτέρας ἀνδρῶν ὑπὸ τῆς ἐς τὸ Δελμίνιον συνόδου γενομένας.
But being unable to do anything against a strong city by sudden assault, and not being able to use siege engines because of its height, he captured the other cities by attacking them, which had become rather empty of men because of the gathering into Delminium.
εἶτα διπήχεας κορύνας πίσσῃ καὶ θείῳ καὶ στυππίῳ περιβαλὼν ἐς τὸ Δελμίνιον ἐκ καταπελτῶν ἐσφενδόνα.
Then, having wrapped clubs of two cubits with pitch, sulphur, and hemp, he slung them into Delminium from catapults.
αἱ δʼ ὑπὸ τῆς ῥύμης ἐξεκαίοντο, καὶ φερόμεναι καθάπερ λαμπάδες ὅπου τύχοιεν ἐνεπίμπρασαν, ἕως πολλὰ μὲν κατεπρήσθη, καὶ τέλος ἄρα τοῦτο ἦν τότε Φίγλῳ τοῦ Δαλματῶν πολέμου.
And they caught fire from the momentum, and being carried like torches, set fire wherever they happened to strike, until many parts were burned down, and indeed this was the end of the Dalmatian war for Figulus at that time.
χρόνῳ δʼ ὕστερον Καικίλιος Μέτελλος ὑπατεύων οὐδὲν ἀδικοῦσι τοῖς Δαλμάταις ἐψηφίσατο πολεμεῖν ἐπιθυμίᾳ θριάμβου, καὶ δεχομένων αὐτὸν ἐκείνων ὡς φίλον διεχείμασε παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἐν Σαλώνῃ πόλει, καὶ ἐς Ῥώμην ἐπανῆλθε καὶ ἐθριάμβευσεν.
A long time afterward, Caecilius Metellus, when he was consul, voted to make war on the Dalmatians who had done no wrong, out of a desire for a triumph; and since they received him as a friend, he wintered among them in the city of Salona, and returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph.