§27.31.1occupato rege apparatu ludorum et per dies festos licentius quam inter belli tempora remittente animum P. Sulpicius ab Naupacto profectus classem appulit inter Sicyonem et Corinthum, agrumque nobilissimae fertilitatis effuse vastavit.
While the king was occupied with the preparation for the games, and during the festival days was relaxing his mind more freely than during times of war, Publius Sulpicius, having set out from Naupactus, brought his fleet to land between Sicyon and Corinth, and extensively ravaged a territory of the most noble fertility.
§27.31.2fama eius rei Philippum ab ludis excivit; raptimque cum equitatu profectus, iussis subsequi peditibus, palatos passim per agros gravesque praeda, ut qui nihil tale metuerent, adortus Romanos compulit ad naves.
The report of this matter summoned Philip away from the games; and having set out in haste with his cavalry, after ordering the infantry to follow, he attacked the Romans, who were scattered here and there through the fields and heavy with booty, as men who feared no such thing, and drove them back to their ships.
§27.31.3classis Romana haudquaquam laeta praeda Naupactum redit.
The Roman fleet returned to Naupactus, by no means happy with its booty.
Philippo ludorum quoque, qui reliqui erant, celebritatem quantaecumque, de Romanis tamen, victoriae partae fama auxerat,
The fame of the victory won, of whatever sort it was, yet won over the Romans, had increased for Philip the celebrity of the games as well which remained to be celebrated.
§27.31.4laetitiaque ingenti celebrati festi dies, eo magis etiam, quod populariter dempto capitis insigni purpuraque atque alio regio habitu aequaverat ceteris se in speciem, quo nihil gratius est civitatibus liberis;
And the festival days were celebrated with immense joy, even more so because, in a democratic manner, having laid aside his diadem, purple, and other royal attire, he had made himself equal in appearance to the others, than which nothing is more pleasing to free states.
§27.31.5praebuissetque haud dubiam eo facto spem libertatis, nisi omnia intoleranda libidine foeda ac deformia effecisset.
And by that act he would have offered no doubtful hope of liberty, had he not made everything foul and ugly by his intolerable lust.
vagabatur enim cum uno aut altero comite per maritas domos dies noctesque, §27.31.6et summittendo se in privatum fastigium quo minus conspectus, eo solutior erat, et libertatem, cum aliis vanam ostendisset, totam in suam licentiam verterat.
For he wandered with one or two companions through the homes of married women day and night, and by lowering himself to the status of a private citizen, the less he was observed, the more unrestrained he was; and the freedom which he had shown to others as a hollow thing, he had turned entirely into his own license.
§27.31.7neque enim omnia emebat aut eblandiebatur, sed vim etiam flagitiis adhibebat, periculosumque et viris et parentibus erat moram incommoda severitate libidini regiae fecisse.
For he did not buy or win over by flattery everything, but he even applied force to his outrages, and it was dangerous both for husbands and parents to have caused delay to the royal lust by an inconvenient severity.
§27.31.8uni etiam principi Achaeorum Arato adempta uxor nomine Polycratia ac spe regiarum nuptiarum in Macedoniam asportata fuerat.
From Aratus, also, one of the chief men of the Achaeans, his wife, Polycratia by name, had been taken away and carried off to Macedonia under the hope of a royal marriage.
§27.31.9per haec flagitia sollemni Nemeorum peracto paucisque additis diebus Dymas est profectus ad praesidium Aetolorum, quod ab Eleis adcitum acceptumque in urbem erat, eiciendum.
Amid these outrages, the solemnity of the Nemean games having been completed, and a few days later, he set out for Dymae to expel the garrison of the Aetolians, which had been summoned by the Eleans and received into the city.
§27.31.10Cycliadas — penes eum summa imperii erat — Achaeique ad Dymas regi occurrere, et Eliorum accensi odio, quod a ceteris Achaeis dissentirent, et infensi Aetolis, quos Romanum quoque adversus se movisse bellum credebant.
Cycliadas—in whose hands was the chief command—and the Achaeans met the king at Dymae, both incensed by hatred of the Eleans, because they dissented from the rest of the Achaeans, and hostile to the Aetolians, whom they believed had also stirred up the Roman war against them.
§27.31.11profecti ab Dymis coniuncto exercitu transeunt Larisum amnem, qui Elium agrum a Dymaeo dirimit.
Having set out from Dymae, with their army united, they crossed the river Larisus, which separates the Elean territory from the Dymaean.