§33.19.1Philippus cum audisset Dardanos transgressos finis ab contemptu concussi tum regni superiora Macedoniae evastare, §33.19.2quamquam toto prope orbe terrarum, undique se suosque exigente fortuna, urgebatur, §33.19.3tamen morte tristius ratus Macedoniae etiam possessione pelli, dilectu raptim per urbes Macedonum habito cum sex milibus peditum et quingentis equitibus circa Stobos Paeoniae improviso hostes oppressit magna multitudo hominum in proelio, maior cupidine; §33.19.4praedandi palata per agros caesa est.
When Philip had heard that the Dardanians, out of contempt for his then shaken kingdom, had crossed the borders and were devastating the upper parts of Macedonia, although he was hard pressed in almost the whole world, with fortune driving him and his men on every side, yet, thinking it more sorrowful than death to be driven even from the possession of Macedonia, having rapidly held a levy through the cities of the Macedonians, he unexpectedly fell upon the enemy near Stobi in Paeonia with six thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry; a great multitude of men in the battle, and a greater number through the desire of plundering scattered through the fields, was slain.
quibus fuga in expedito fuit, ne temptato quidem casu pugnae in finis suos redierunt.
For those to whom flight was easy, without even trying the fortune of battle, they returned into their own territories.
§33.19.5ea una expeditione, non pro reliquo statu fortunae facta, refectis suorum animis Thessalonicam sese recepit.
By this single expedition, which was not in proportion to the remaining state of his fortune, having restored the spirits of his men, he withdrew to Thessalonica.
§33.19.6non tam in tempore Punicum bellum terminatum erat, ne simul et cum Philippo foret bellandum, quam opportune iam Antiocho ex Syria movente bellum Philippus est superatus; §33.19.7nam praeterquam quod facilius cum singulis, quam si in unum ambo simul contulissent vires, bellatum est, Hispania quoque sub idem tempus magno tumultu ad bellum consurrexit.
The Punic War had not been terminated so much in good time, lest they should have to war with Philip at the same time, as opportunely Philip was defeated while Antiochus was already moving war from Syria; for besides the fact that it was easier to war with them individually than if both had combined their forces at the same time into one, Hispania also arose to war with a great tumult around the same time.
§33.19.8Antiochus cum priore aestate omnibus, quae in Coele Syria sunt, civitatibus ex Ptolomaei dicione in suam potestatem redactis in hiberna Antiocheam concessisset, nihilo quietiora ea ipsis aestivis habuit.
When Antiochus, having in the previous summer reduced all the cities in Coele Syria from the dominion of Ptolemy under his own power, had retired into winter quarters at Antioch, he kept them not a whit quieter than the summer campaign itself.
§33.19.9omnibus enim regni viribus conixus cum ingentis copias terrestris maritimasque comparasset, principio veris praemissis terra cum exercitu filiis duobus, Ardye ac Mithridate, §33.19.10iussisque Sardibus se opperiri ipse cum classe centum tectarum navium, ad hoc levioribus navigiis cercurisque ac lembis ducentis proficiscitur, §33.19.11simul per omnem oram Ciliciae Lyciaeque et Cariae temptaturus urbes, quae in dicione Ptolomaei essent, simul Philippum — necdum enim debellatum erat exercitu navibusque adiuturus.
For, having exerted himself with all the forces of his kingdom, when he had prepared huge land and sea forces, at the beginning of spring he sent ahead his two sons, Ardyas and Mithridates, by land with an army, and having ordered them to wait for him at Sardis, he himself set out with a fleet of one hundred decked ships, besides two hundred lighter vessels, cercuri and lembi, intending at once to try the cities along the entire coast of Cilicia, Lycia, and Caria which were under the dominion of Ptolemy, and at the same time to assist Philip—for the war had not yet been brought to an end—with both army and ships.