§31.44.1haec ea aestate ab Romanis Philippoque gesta terra; classis a Corcyra eiusdem principio aestatis cum L. Apustio legato profecta Maleo superato circa Scyllaeum agri Hermionici Attalo regi coniuncta est. §31.44.2tum vero Atheniensium civitas, cui odio in Philippum per metum iam diu moderata erat, id omne in auxilii praesentis spem effudit. §31.44.3nec umquam ibi desunt linguae promptae ad plebem concitandam; quod genus cur in omnibus liberis civitatibus, tum praecipue Athenis, ubi oratio plurimum pollet, favore multitudinis alitur. §31.44.4rogationem extemplo tulerunt plebesque scivit, ut Philippi statuae et imagines omnes nominaque earum, item maiorum eius virile ac muliebre secus omnium tollerentur delerenturque diesque festi, sacra, sacerdotes, quae ipsius maiorumque eius honoris causa instituta essent, omnia profanarentur; §31.44.5loca quoque, in quibus positum aliquid inscriptumve honoris eius causa fuisset, detestabilia esse, neque in iis quicquam postea poni dedicarique placere eorum, quae in loco puro poni dedicarique fas esset; §31.44.6sacerdotes publicos, quotienscumque pro populo Atheniensi sociisque, exercitibus et classibus eorum precarentur, totiens detestari atque exsecrari Philippum, liberos eius regnumque, terrestres navalesque copias, Macedonum genus omne nomenque. §31.44.7additum decreto, si quis quid postea, quod ad notam ignominiamque Philippi pertineret, ferret, §31.44.8id omne populum Atheniensem iussurum; si quis contra ignominiam prove honore eius dixisset fecissetve, qui occidisset eum iure caesurum.
were the transactions by land during that summer by the Romans and Philip; the fleet, which had set out from Corcyra at the beginning of the same summer with the lieutenant L. Apustius, having rounded Cape Malea, joined King Attalus near Scyllaeum in the territory of Hermione. indeed the Athenian state, whose hatred toward Philip had long been restrained by fear, poured out all of it in the hope of the present assistance. are there ever wanting there tongues ready to stir up the populace; which class of people, as it is nourished in all free states, so especially in Athens, where eloquence has the greatest power, by the favor of the multitude. immediately proposed a bill, and the commons decreed, that all the statues and images of Philip, and all their inscriptions, and also those of all his ancestors, both male and female, should be removed and destroyed, and that all the festivals, sacred rites, and priests, which had been instituted in honor of him or of his ancestors, should be desecrated; that the places also, in which anything had been placed or inscribed in his honor, should be accursed, and that nothing which it was lawful to place or dedicate in a pure place should thereafter be placed or dedicated in them; the public priests, as often as they should pray for the Athenian people and their allies, armies, and fleets, should as often curse and execrate Philip, his children, his kingdom, his forces by land and sea, and the whole nation and name of the Macedonians. was added to the decree, that if anyone should thereafter propose anything which tended to the disgrace and ignominy of Philip, Athenian people would decree it all; and if anyone should speak or act against his ignominy or for his honor, whoever killed him would be slaying him lawfully.
postremo inclusum, ut omnia, quae adversus Pisistratidas decreta quondam erant, eadem in Philippo servarentur. §31.44.9Athenienses quidem litteris verbisque, quibus solis valent, bellum adversus Philippum gerebant;
Lastly, it was included that all things which had formerly been decreed against the Pisistratidae, the same should be observed in the case of Philip. Athenians, indeed, carried on war against Philip by letters and words, in which alone they are powerful.