§35.51.1templum est Apollinis Delium, imminens mari; quinque milia passuum ab Tanagra abest; minus quattuor milium inde in proxima Euboeae est mari traiectus.
There is a temple of Apollo, Delium, overhanging the sea; it is five miles distant from Tanagra; from there, the crossing by sea to the nearest parts of Euboea is less than four miles.
§35.51.2ubi et in fano lucoque ea religione et eo iure sancto, quo sunt templa, quae asyla Graeci appellant, et nondum aut indicto bello aut ita commisso, ut strictos gladios aut sanguinem usquam factum audissent, §35.51.3cum per magnum otium milites alii ad spectaculum templi lucique versi, alii in littore inermes vagarentur, magna pars per agros lignatum pabulatumque dilapsa esset, §35.51.4repente Menippus palatos passim adgressus † eos cecidit, ad quinquaginta vivos cepit; perpauci effugerunt, in quibus Micythio parva oneraria nave exceptus.
At that place, within both a shrine and a sacred grove, protected by the same sanctity and holy right which belong to those temples that the Greeks call sanctuaries, and while war had not yet been declared or so far commenced that they had heard of drawn swords or blood shed anywhere, while some of the soldiers, during a time of great leisure, turned to look at the temple and the grove, others wandered unarmed on the shore, and a great part had scattered through the fields to gather wood and forage, suddenly Menippus, having attacked them scattered here and there, slew them and took about fifty alive; very few escaped, among whom was Micythio, who was taken up by a small merchant ship.
§35.51.5ea res Quinctio Romanisque sicut iactura militum molesta, ita ad ius inferendi Antiocho belli adiecisse aliquantum videbatur.
This event, just as it was painful to Quinctius and the Romans as a loss of soldiers, so it seemed to have added not a little to their right of waging war against Antiochus.
§35.51.6Antiochus admoto ad Aulidem exercitu, cum rursus oratores partim ex suis partim Aetolos Chalcidem misisset, qui eadem illa, quae nuper, cum minis gravioribus agerent, nequiquam contra Micythione et Xenoclide tendentibus facile tenuit, ut portae sibi aperirentur.
Antiochus, having moved his army to Aulis, although he had again sent envoys, partly from his own men and partly Aetolians, to Chalcis, to urge those same things as recently, but with heavier threats, easily obtained that the gates should be opened to him, while Micythio and Xenoclides resisted in vain.
§35.51.7qui Romanae partis erant sub adventum regis urbe excesserunt.
Those who were of the Roman party departed from the city upon the arrival of the king.
Achaeorum et Eumenis milites Salganea tenebant, et in Euripo castellum Romani milites pauci custodiae causa loci communiebant.
The soldiers of the Achaeans and Eumenes held Salganeus, and a few Roman soldiers were fortifying a stronghold at Euripus for the protection of the place.
§35.51.8Salganea Menippus, rex ipse castellum Euripi oppugnare est adortus.
Menippus began to attack Salganeus, and the king himself the stronghold of Euripus.
priores Achaei et Eumenis milites pacti, ut sine fraude liceret abire, praesidio excesserunt; §35.51.9pertinacius Romani Euripum tuebantur.
The former, the soldiers of the Achaeans and Eumenes, having bargained that they might depart without harm, left the garrison; the Romans defended Euripus more stubbornly.
hi quoque tamen, cum terra marique obsiderentur et iam machinas tormentaque adportari viderent, non tulere obsidionem.
Yet they too, when they were besieged by land and sea and saw machines and engines already being brought up, did not endure the siege.
§35.51.10cum id, quod caput erat Euboeae, teneret rex, ne ceterae quidem insulae eius urbes imperium abnuerunt; magnoque principio sibi orsus bellum videbatur, quod tanta insula et tot opportunae urbes in suam dicionem venissent.
When the king held what was the capital of Euboea, not even the other cities of that island refused his rule; and he seemed to himself to have begun the war with a great start, because so great an island and so many convenient cities had come under his power.