§36.24.1consul cum nocte media intermisisset oppugnationem, quarta vigilia rursus ab tribus partibus summa vi adgressus, §36.24.2ab una Ti. Sempronium tenere intentos milites signumque expectare iussit, ad ea in nocturno tumultu, unde clamor exaudiretur, §36.24.3haud dubie ratus hostis concursuros.
The consul, having suspended the assault at midnight, attacked again with the greatest force from three sides at the fourth watch, and on the remaining side ordered Tiberius Sempronius to keep his soldiers alert and to wait for the signal, so that in the nightly tumult, to whatever place the shouting was heard, he believed without a doubt that the enemy would rush thither.
Aetoli pars sopiti adfecta labore ac vigiliis corpora ex somno moliebantur, pars vigilantes adhuc ad strepitum pugnantium in tenebris currunt.
As for the Aetolians, some, fast asleep, were raising from sleep their bodies exhausted by toil and lack of rest; others, who were still awake, ran in the darkness toward the noise of the combatants.
§36.24.4hostes partim per ruinas iacentis muri transcendere conantur, partim scalis ascensus temptant, adversus quos undique ad opem ferendam concurrunt Aetoli.
The enemy were attempting, partly to cross over the ruins of the fallen wall, partly to scale the walls with ladders, against whom the Aetolians rushed from all sides to bring assistance.
§36.24.5pars una, in qua aedificia extra urbem erant, neque defenditur neque oppugnatur; sed qui oppugnarent, intenti signum expectabant; §36.24.6defensor nemo aderat.
The one part, in which there were buildings outside the city, was neither defended nor attacked; but those who were to attack it were waiting alertly for the signal; not a single defender was present.
iam diluescebat, cum signum consul dedit; et sine ullo certamine partim per semirutos, partim scalis integros muros transcendere.
It was already dawning when the consul gave the signal; and without any conflict they crossed, partly over the half-ruined walls, partly by ladders over the untouched ones.
simul clamor, index capti oppidi, est exauditus; undique Aetoli desertis stationibus in arcem fugiunt.
At the same time, a shout, the signal of the captured town, was heard; from all sides the Aetolians, abandoning their posts, fled into the citadel.
§36.24.7oppidum victores permissu consulis diripiunt, non tam ab ira nec ab odio, quam ut miles, coercitus in tot receptis ex potestate hostium urbibus, aliquo tandem loco fructum victoriae sentiret.
The victors plundered the town with the permission of the consul, not so much from anger or hatred, as that the soldier, restrained in so many cities recovered from the power of the enemy, might at last in some place feel the fruit of victory.
§36.24.8revocatos inde a medio ferme die milites cum in duas divisisset partes, unam radicibus montium circumduci ad rupem iussit quae, fastigio altitudinis par, media valle velut abrupta ab arce erat; §36.24.9sed adeo prope geminata cacumina eorum montium sunt, ut ex vertice altero conici tela in arcem possint; cum dimidia parte militum consul ab urbe escensurus in arcem signum ab iis, qui ab tergo in rupem evasuri erant, expectabat.
Having then recalled the soldiers at about midday, when he had divided them into two parts, he ordered one part to be led around the roots of the mountains to a cliff which, equal in height of its summit, was separated as if by an intervening valley from the citadel; but the twin summits of those mountains are so close to each other that missiles can be thrown into the citadel from the other peak; with the half part of the soldiers, the consul, about to ascend into the citadel from the city, was waiting for the signal from those who were to come out on the cliff from behind.
§36.24.10non tulere qui in arce erant Aetoli primum eorum, qui rupem ceperant, clamorem, deinde impetum ab urbe Romanorum et fractis iam animis et nulla ibi praeparata re ad obsidionem diutius tolerandam, §36.24.11utpote congregatis feminis puerisque et imbelli alia turba in arcem, quae vix capere, nedum tueri multitudinem tantam posset.
The Aetolians who were in the citadel could not bear, first, the shout of those who had taken the cliff, then the attack of the Romans from the city, both because their spirits were already broken and because no preparation had been made there to endure a siege any longer, inasmuch as women, boys, and another unwarlike crowd had been gathered into the citadel, which could scarcely hold, much less protect, so great a multitude.
itaque ad primum impetum abiectis armis dediderunt sese.
Therefore, at the first onset, they threw down their arms and surrendered themselves.
§36.24.12traditus inter ceteros princeps Aetolorum Damocritus est, qui principio belli decretum Aetolorum, quo accersendum Antiochum censuerant, T. Quinctio poscenti responderat, in Italia daturum, cum castra ibi Aetoli posuissent.
Among the others, Damocritus, a chief of the Aetolians, was delivered up, who at the beginning of the war, when Titus Quinctius demanded the decree of the Aetolians by which they had voted to invite Antiochus, had replied that he would give it in Italy, when the Aetolians had pitched their camp there.
ob eam ferociam maius victoribus gaudium traditus fuit.
On account of this insolence, his surrender was a source of greater joy to the victors.