§31.18.1ante deditionem ex iis legatis, qui Alexandream missi erant, M. Aemilius trium consensu, minimus natu, audita obsidione Abydenorum ad Philippum venit.
Before the surrender, of those envoys who had been sent to Alexandria, Marcus Aemilius, the youngest by birth, came to Philip by the consensus of the three, having heard of the siege of the Abydenes.
qui questus Attalo Rhodiisque arma illata, §31.18.2et quod tum maxime Abydum oppugnaret, cum rex ab Attalo et Rhodiis ultro se bello lacessitum diceret, “num Abydeni quoque” inquit “ultro tibi intulerunt arma?” §31.18.3insueto vera audire ferocior oratio visa est, quam quae habenda apud regem esset.
He, having complained that war had been brought upon Attalus and the Rhodians, and that he was at that very time besieging Abydus—when the king said that he had been aggressively provoked to war by Attalus and the Rhodians—said, "Did the Abydenes also aggressively bring war upon you?" To one unaccustomed to hearing the truth, the speech seemed too insolent to be delivered before a king.
“aetas” inquit “et forma et super omnia Romanum nomen te ferociorem facit.
"Your youth," he said, "and your beauty, and above all the Roman name make you too bold.
§31.18.4ego autem primum velim vos foederum memores servare mecum pacem; sin bello lacessitis, mihi quoque animos facere et regnum et Macedonum nomen haud minus quam Romanum nobile sentietis. ” §31.18.5ita dimisso legato Philippus auro,
But I would first wish that you, mindful of the treaties, keep peace with me; but if you provoke me by war, you will feel that I too have courage, and that both my kingdom and the Macedonian name are no less noble than the Roman." Having thus dismissed the envoy, Philip, although he received the gold, the silver, and whatever other things had been accumulated, lost all the booty of human beings.
§31.18.6argento quaeque coacervata alia erant acceptis hominum praedam omnem amisit. tanta enim rabies multitudinem invasit, ut, proditos rati qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent, periuriumque alius alii exprobrantes et sacerdotibus maxime, qui, quos ad mortem devovissent, eorum deditionem vivorum hosti fecissent, §31.18.7repente omnes ad caedem coniugum liberorumque discurrerent seque ipsi per omnes vias leti interficerent.
For so great a madness invaded the multitude, that, thinking those who had met death while fighting had been betrayed, and reproaching one another with perjury, and especially the priests, who had surrendered alive to the enemy those whom they had devoted to death, suddenly they all ran about to the slaughter of their wives and children, and killed themselves by death in all the streets.
obstupefactus eo furore rex suppressit impetum militum et triduum se ad moriendum Abydenis dare dixit.
Astonished by this madness, the king stopped the onset of his soldiers and said that he gave three days to the Abydenes to die.
§31.18.8quo spatio plura facinora in se victi ediderunt, quam infesti edidissent victores, nec, nisi quem vincula aut alia necessitas mori prohibuit, quisquam vivus in potestatem venit.
In which space of time the vanquished committed more atrocities against themselves than hostile victors would have committed, nor did anyone come alive into his power, unless chains or some other necessity prevented him from dying.
Philippus imposito Abydi praesidio in regnum rediit.
Philip, having placed a garrison at Abydus, returned to his kingdom.
§31.18.9cum velut Sagunti excidium Hannibali, sic Philippo Abydenorum clades ad Romanum bellum animos fecisset, nuntii occurrerunt consulem iam in Epiro esse et Apolloniam terrestris copias, navalis Corcyram in hiberna deduxisse.
When, just as the destruction of Saguntum had given courage to Hannibal, so the disaster of the Abydenes had given courage to Philip for the Roman war, messengers met him with the news that the consul was already in Epirus, and had led the land forces to Apollonia and the naval forces to Corcyra into winter quarters.