§31.46.1ibi relicta classe decem navibus expeditis sinum Maliacum intravere ad colloquendum cum Aetolis de ratione gerendi belli.
Having left the fleet there, they entered the Malian Gulf with ten light ships to confer with the Aetolians about the method of conducting the war.
Pyrrhias §31.46.2Aetolus princeps legationis eius fuit, quae ad communicanda consilia Heracleam cum rege et cum Romano legato venit.
Pyrrhias, an Aetolian, was the chief of that embassy which came to Heraclea to consult with the king and with the Roman lieutenant.
§31.46.3petitum ex foedere ab Attalo est, ut mille milites praestaret; tantum enim numerum bellum gerentibus adversus Philippum debebat.
A request was made of Attalus, according to the treaty, that he should furnish a thousand soldiers; for he owed that number to those waging war against Philip.
§31.46.4id negatum Aetolis, quod illi quoque gravati prius essent ad populandam Macedoniam exire, quo tempore, Philippo circa Pergamum urente sacra profanaque, abstrahere eum inde respectu rerum suarum potuissent.
This was refused to the Aetolians, because they also had previously been reluctant to go out to ravage Macedonia, at which time, while Philip was burning things sacred and profane around Pergamum, they might have drawn him away from there out of concern for their own affairs.
§31.46.5ita Aetoli cum spe magis, Romanis omnia pollicentibus, quam cum auxilio dimissi; Apustius cum Attalo ad classem redit.
Thus the Aetolians were dismissed with hope rather—the Romans promising everything—than with actual aid; Apustius returned with Attalus to the fleet.
§31.46.6inde agitari de Oreo oppugnando coeptum.
Thence they began to deliberate about besieging Oreus.
valida ea civitas et moenibus et, quia ante fuerat temptata, firmo erat praesidio.
This state was strong both in its walls and, because it had been attempted before, in a firm garrison.
coniunxerant se iis post expugnationem Andri cum praefecto Agesimbroto viginti Rhodiae naves, tectae omnes.
After the capture of Andros, twenty Rhodian ships, all decked, had joined them under their commander Agesimbrotus.
§31.46.7eam classem in stationem ad Zelasium miserunt — Phthiotidis super Demetriadem promunturium est peropportune obiectum, §31.46.8ut, si quid inde moverent Macedonum naves, in praesidio essent.
They sent that fleet into station at Zelasium—a promontory of Phthiotis above Demetrias, very opportunely situated— so that, if the ships of the Macedonians made any movement from there, they might be on guard.
Heraclides, praefectus regius, classem ibi tenebat, magis per occasionem, si quam neglegentia hostium dedisset, quam aperta vi quicquam ausurus.
Heraclides, the royal prefect, kept his fleet there, intending to attempt something through opportunity, if any should be given by the negligence of the enemy, rather than by open force.
§31.46.9Oreum diversi Romani et rex Attalus oppugnabant, Romani a marituma arce, regii adversus vallem inter duas iacentem arces, qua et muro intersaepta urbs est.
Oreus was besieged from different directions by the Romans and King Attalus: the Romans from the maritime citadel, the king's men against the valley lying between the two citadels, where also the city was divided by a wall.
§31.46.10et ut loca diversa, sic dispari modo etiam oppugnabant: Romanus testudinibus et vineis et ariete admovendo muris, regii ballistis catapultisque et alio omni genere tormentorum tela ingerentes et pondere ingenti saxa; faciebant et cuniculos et quidquid aliud priore oppugnatione expertum profuerat.
And as the locations were different, so they also besieged in an unequal manner: the Roman by bringing up testudos, vineae, and a battering-ram to the walls; the king's men by throwing missiles with ballistae, catapults, and every other kind of engine, and stones of immense weight; they also made tunnels and whatever else had proved useful when tried in the former siege.
§31.46.11ceterum non plures tantum Macedones quam ante tuebantur urbem arcesque, sed etiam praesentioribus animis, et castigationis regis in admissa culpa et simul minarum, simul promissorum in futurum memores.
However, not only did more Macedonians than before defend the city and the citadels, but also with more resolute minds, mindful both of the king's punishment for their admitted fault and, at the same time, of his threats and his promises for the future.
itaque cum praeter spem tempus ibi traheretur, plusque in obsidione et in operibus quam in oppugnatione celeri spei esset, §31.46.12interim et aliud agi posse ratus legatus, * relictis, quod satis videbatur ad opera perficienda, traicit in proxima continentis Larisamque — non illam in Thessalia nobilem urbem, sed alteram, quam Cremasten vocant — §31.46.13subito adventu praeter arcem cepit Attalus quoque Pteleon nihil minus quam tale quicquam in alterius oppugnatione urbis timentibus oppressit.
Therefore, when contrary to expectation time was dragged out there, and there was more hope in a siege and works than in a swift assault, in the meantime, the lieutenant, thinking that something else also could be done, having left what seemed sufficient to complete the works, crossed to the nearest part of the continent and took Larisa—not that famous city in Thessaly, but the other, which they call Cremaste— by a sudden arrival, except for the citadel; Attalus also overwhelmed Pteleum, whose inhabitants feared nothing less than any such thing while another city was being besieged.
§31.46.14et iam cum opera in effectu erant circa Oreum, tum praesidium, quod intus erat, labore adsiduo, vigiliis diurnis pariter nocturnisque et vulneribus confectum.
And now, when the works around Oreus were producing their effect, the garrison inside was also exhausted by continuous labor, by day and night watches alike, and by wounds.
§31.46.15muri quoque pars ariete incusso subruta multis iam locis prociderat; perque apertum ruina iter nocte Romani in arcem, quae super portum est, perruperunt.
A part of the wall also, undermined by the blows of the battering-ram, had already fallen down in many places; and through the path opened by the ruin, the Romans by night broke into the citadel which is above the harbor.
§31.46.16Attalus luce prima signo ex arce dato ab Romanis et ipse urbem invasit stratis magna ex parte muris; praesidium oppidanique in arcem alteram perfugere, unde biduo post deditio facta.
At dawn, a signal having been given from the citadel by the Romans, Attalus himself also invaded the city, the walls being laid low for the most part; the garrison and the townspeople fled into the other citadel, from which a surrender was made two days later.
urbs regi, captiva corpora Romanis cessere.
The city fell to the king, the captive bodies to the Romans.