§628τοῦτο μὲν δὴ τῇ ναυμαχίᾳ τῇ περὶ τὴν Μυόννησον ἦν τέλος·
This indeed was the end of the sea fight near Myonnesus.
οὔπω δʼ αὐτῆς ὁ Ἀντίοχος αἰσθόμενος Χερρόνησόν τε καὶ Λυσιμάχειαν ἐπιμελῶς ὠχύρου, μέγα, ὥσπερ ἦν, τὸ ἔργον ἡγούμενος ἐπὶ Ῥωμαίοις, ὅπου γε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην Θρᾴκην διελθεῖν στρατοπέδῳ δυσόδευτον αὐτοῖς ἂν ἐγένετο καὶ δύσβατον, εἰ μὴ Φίλιππος διέφερεν.
But Antiochus, not yet aware of it, was carefully fortifying Chersonese and Lysimacheia, thinking it a great obstacle against the Romans, as indeed it was, since even to pass through the rest of Thrace with an army would have been difficult and impassable for them, had not Philip conducted them.
ἀλλʼ ὁ Ἀντίοχος ὢν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα κουφόνους ἀεὶ καὶ ταχὺς ἐς μεταβολήν, ἐπεὶ τῆς ἥσσης ἐπύθετο τῆς περὶ Μυόννησον, πάμπαν ἐξεπλάγη, νομίσας αὑτῷ τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐπιβουλεύειν·
But Antiochus, who was in other respects always light-minded and quick to change, when he heard of the defeat near Myonnesus, was utterly confounded, thinking that the divine power was plotting against him.
παρὰ γὰρ λόγον ἕκαστα χωρεῖν, Ῥωμαίων μὲν ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ κρατούντων, ἐν ᾗ πολὺ προύχειν αὐτὸς ἐνόμιζε, Ῥοδίων δʼ Ἀννίβαν ἐς Παμφυλίαν κατακεκλεικότων, Φιλίππου δὲ Ῥωμαίους παραπέμποντος ἀβάτους ὁδούς, ὃν μάλιστα μνησικακήσειν αὐτοῖς ὧν ἔπαθεν ὑπελάμβανεν.
For everything was proceeding contrary to expectation: the Romans were victorious on the sea, where he thought himself far superior, the Rhodians had shut Hannibal up in Pamphylia, and Philip, whom he supposed would bear them the greatest malice for what he had suffered, was escorting the Romans through impassable roads.
ὑπὸ δὴ τῶνδε πάντων ἐκταρασσόμενός τε, καὶ θεοῦ βλάπτοντος ἤδη τοὺς λογισμούς, ὅπερ ἅπασι προσιόντων ἀτυχημάτων ἐπιγίγνεται, Χερρόνησον ἐξέλιπεν ἀλογίστως, πρὶν καὶ ἐς ὄψιν ἐλθεῖν τοῖς πολεμίοις, οὔτε μετενεγκὼν ὅσος ἦν ἐν αὐτῇ σῖτος σεσωρευμένος πολὺς ἢ ὅπλα ἢ χρήματα ἢ μηχαναί, οὔτε ἐμπρήσας, ἀλλʼ ὑγιεῖς ἀφορμὰς τοσάσδε τοῖς πολεμίοις καταλιπών.
Being thrown into utter confusion by all this, and since a god was already impairing his judgment—which always happens to everyone when misfortunes approach—he foolishly abandoned Chersonese before even coming into the sight of the enemy, neither carrying away the vast quantity of corn, arms, money, or engines stored in it, nor burning them, but leaving so many sound resources for the enemy.
Λυσιμαχέας τε αὐτῷ καθάπερ ἐκ πολιορκίας συμφεύγοντας μετʼ οἰμωγῆς, ἅμα γυναιξὶ καὶ παιδίοις, ὑπερεώρα, μόνου τοῦ διάπλου τοῦ περὶ Ἄβυδον εἶρξαι τοὺς πολεμίους ἐπινοῶν, καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν ἔτι ἐλπίδα τοῦ πολέμου πᾶσαν ἐν τούτῳ τιθέμενος.
And he disregarded the Lysimacheians who were fleeing to him with lamentation as if from a siege, together with their wives and children, planning only to bar the enemy from the crossing near Abydus, and placing all his remaining hope of the war in this.
οὐ μὴν οὔτε τὸν διάπλουν ἐφύλαξεν ὑπὸ θεοβλαβείας, ἀλλʼ ἐς τὸ μεσόγειον ἠπείχθη ἐπανελθεῖν, φθάνων τοὺς πολεμίους, οὐδέ τινα φυλακὴν ἐν τῷ διάπλῳ κατέλιπεν.
Yet he did not even guard the crossing because of his infatuation, but hastened to return into the interior, anticipating the enemy, and left no guard at all at the passage.
§629οἱ δὲ Σκιπίωνες ἐπεὶ τὴς ἀναχωρήσεως αὐτοῦ ἐπύθοντο, Λυσιμάχειάν τε δρόμῳ κατέλαβον, καὶ τῶν ἐν Χερρονήσῳ θησαυρῶν τε καὶ ὅπλων κρατήσαντες τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἔρημον ὄντα φυλακῆς εὐθὺς ἐπέρων μετὰ σπουδῆς, ἔφθασάν τε Ἀντίοχον ἔτι ἀγνοοῦντα ἐν Σάρδεσι γενόμενοι.
When the Scipios heard of his retreat, they occupied Lysimacheia by a rapid march, and having possessed themselves of the treasures and arms in Chersonese, they immediately crossed the Hellespont, which was destitute of guards, in all haste, and anticipated Antiochus while he was still in ignorance at Sardis.
ὁ δʼ ἐκπλαγεὶς ἐβαρυθύμει, καὶ τὰ ἴδια αὑτοῦ ἁμαρτήματα ἐς τὸ δαιμόνιον ἀνατιθεὶς Ἡρακλείδην τὸν Βυζάντιον ἔπεμπεν ἐς τοὺς Σκιπίωνας ἐπὶ διαλύσεσι τοῦ πολέμου, Σμύρναν τε καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν αὐτοῖς διδοὺς τὴν ἐπὶ Γρανίκῳ καὶ Λάμψακον, διʼ ἃς ἦρξεν αὐτοῖς ὁ πόλεμος, καὶ τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς δαπάνης τοῦδε τοῦ πολέμου.
Confounded and dejected, and attributing his own errors to the deity, Antiochus sent Heracleides of Byzantium to the Scipios to treat for peace, offering to yield to them Smyrna, Alexandria on the Granicus, and Lampsacus, because of which the war had begun between them, and to pay half of the expenses of this war.
ἐνετέλλετο δέ, εἰ δέοι, καὶ τῶν Ἰάδων πόλεων δοῦναι καὶ τῶν Αἰολίδων ὅσαι τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐν τῷδε τῷ ἀγῶνι εἵλοντο, καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο αἰτοῖεν οἱ Σκιπίωνες.
He also ordered him, if necessary, to give up those of the Ionian and Aeolian cities which had chosen the side of the Romans in this struggle, and whatever else the Scipios might demand.
ταῦτα μὲν εἶχεν ἐς τὸ φανερὸν λέγειν ὁ Ἡρακλείδης, ἰδίᾳ δὲ πρὸς Πόπλιον Σκιπίωνα ἔφερε παρʼ Ἀντιόχου χρημάτων τε πολλῶν ὑποσχέσεις καὶ τοῦ παιδὸς ἀφέσεις.
These things Heracleides was to say in public, but privately to Publius Scipio he brought from Antiochus promises of a large sum of money and the release of his son.
ᾑρήκει γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ὁ Ἀντίοχος, ἐς Δηματριάδα ἐκ Χαλκίδος διαπλέοντα· καὶ ἦν ὁ παῖς Σκιπίων ὁ Καρχηδόνα ὕστερον ἑλών τε καὶ κατασκάψας, καὶ δεύτερος ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ Σκιπίωνι Ἀφρικανὸς ὀνομασθείς, Παύλου μὲν υἱὸς ὢν τοῦ Περσέα τὸν Μακεδόνα ἑλόντος, Σκιπίωνος δὲ τῷ γένει θυγατριδοῦς καὶ θέσει παῖς.
For Antiochus had captured him in Greece, as he was sailing from Chalcis to Demetrias; and this boy was the Scipio who afterwards took and destroyed Carthage, and was named the second Africanus after this Scipio, being the son of Paulus, who took Perseus the Macedonian, and by birth the grandson of Scipio by his daughter, and his son by adoption.
κοινῇ μὲν οὖν οἱ Σκιπίωνες τῷ Ἡρακλείδῃ τήνδε ἔδοσαν τὴν ἀπόκρισιν, ἐὰν ὁ Ἀντίοχος εἰρήνης δέηται, μὴ τῶν Ἰάδων μηδὲ τῶν Αἰολίδων αὐτὸν ἐκστῆναι πόλεων, ἀλλὰ πάσης τῆς ἐπὶ τάδε Ταύρου, καὶ τὴν δαπάνην τοῦ πολέμου πᾶσαν ἐσενεγκεῖν, διʼ αὐτὸν γενομένου.
Jointly, then, the Scipios gave this answer to Heracleides: if Antiochus desired peace, he must not only withdraw from the Ionian and Aeolian cities, but from the whole of Taurus on this side, and contribute the entire cost of the war, which had arisen through his fault.
ἰδιᾳ δὲ ὁ Πόπλιος ἔφη τῷ Ἡρακλείδῃ Ῥωμαίους, εἰ μὲν ἔτι Χερρονήσου καὶ Λυσιμαχείας κρατῶν ὁ Ἀντίοχος ταῦτα προύτεινεν, ἀσμένως ἂν λαβεῖν· τάχα δʼ εἰ καὶ μόνον ἔτι τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου τὸν διάπλουν ἐφύλασσε· νῦν δʼ αὐτοὺς ἤδη περάσαντάς τε καὶ ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ γενομένους, καὶ τὸν χαλινόν, φασίν, ἐνθέντας, καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ χαλινῷ τὸν ἵππον ἀναβάντας, οὐκ ἀνέξεσθαι διαλύσεων ἐπʼ ὀλίγοις.
But privately Publius said to Heracleides that if Antiochus had made these proposals while he still held Chersonese and Lysimacheia, the Romans would have accepted them gladly; and perhaps even if he had only still guarded the passage of the Hellespont; but now, when they had already crossed and were in safety, and had, as the saying is, put on the bridle and mounted the horse with the bridle, they would not tolerate a settlement on small terms.
αὐτὸς δὲ χάριν εἰδέναι τῷ βασιλεῖ τῆς προαιρέσεως, καὶ μᾶλλον εἴσεσθαι λαβὼν τὸν υἱόν· ἀμείβεσθαι δʼ αὐτὸν ἤδη, καὶ συμβουλεύειν δέχεσθαι τὰ προτεινόμενα πρὶν ἐς πεῖραν ἐλθεῖν μειζόνων ἐπιταγμάτων.
He himself was grateful to the king for his intention, and would be more so when he received his son; but he could reward him now only by advising him to accept the proposals offered before he should experience greater demands.