§37.12.1dum haec in Aeolide geruntur, Abydus cum per aliquot dies obsidionem tolerasset praesidio regio tutante moenia, §37.12.2iam omnibus fessis Philota quoque praefecto praesidii permittente magistratus eorum cum Livio de condicionibus tradendae urbis agebant.
While these things were being done in Aeolis, Abydus, although it had tolerated the siege for several days with the royal garrison protecting the walls, when everyone was already exhausted and with Philotas, the commander of the garrison, also permitting it, their magistrates were negotiating with Livius concerning the terms of surrendering the city.
rem distinebat, quod, utrum armati an inermes emitterentur regii, parum conveniebat.
What delayed the matter was that it was not sufficiently agreed upon whether the royal soldiers should be sent away armed or unarmed.
§37.12.3haec agentibus cum intervenisset nuntius Rhodiorum cladis, emissa de manibus res est; §37.12.4metuens enim Livius, ne successu tantae rei inflatus Polyxenidas classem, quae ad Canas erat, opprimeret, Abydi obsidione custodiaque Hellesponti extemplo relicta naves, quae subductae Canis erant, §37.12.5deduxit; et Eumenes Elaeam venit.
While they were negotiating these things, when the news of the defeat of the Rhodians intervened, the business slipped from their hands; for Livius, fearing lest Polyxenidas, puffed up by the success of so great an event, should overwhelm the fleet which was at Canae, immediately abandoned the siege of Abydus and the guard of the Hellespont, and the ships which had been drawn up at Canae he launched; and Eumenes came to Elaea.
Livius omni classe, cui adiunxerat duas triremes Mitylenaeas, Phocaeam petit.
Livius, with his entire fleet, to which he had added two Mitylenaean triremes, headed for Phocaea.
quam cum teneri valido regio praesidio audisset, nec procul Seleuci castra esse, depopulatus maritimam oram, §37.12.6et praeda maxime hominum raptim in naves imposita tantum moratus, dum Eumenes cum classe adsequeretur, Samum petere intendit.
When he heard that it was held by a strong royal garrison, and that the camp of Seleucus was not far off, having devastated the coastal territory, and having hastily put on board the ships the booty, consisting chiefly of men, having delayed only until Eumenes should catch up with his fleet, he intended to head for Samos.
§37.12.7Rhodiis primo audita clades simul pavorem simul luctum ingentem fecit; nam praeter navium militumque iacturam, quod floris, quod roboris in iuventute fuerat, §37.12.8amiserant, multis nobilibus secutis inter cetera auctoritatem Pausistrati, quae inter suos merito maxima erat; deinde, quod fraude capti, quod a cive potissimum suo forent, in iram luctus vertit.
To the Rhodians, the news of the defeat at first caused both panic and huge grief; for besides the loss of ships and soldiers, whatever flower, whatever strength there had been in their youth, they had lost, since many nobles had followed, and they lost among other things the authority of Pausistratus, which was deservedly the greatest among his own people; then, the fact that they had been captured by fraud, and that too by their own citizen above all, turned their grief into anger.
§37.12.9decem extemplo naves, et diebus post paucis decem alias praefecto omnium Eudamo miserunt, quem aliis virtutibus bellicis haudquaquam Pausistrato parem, cautiorem, quo minus animi erat, ducem futurum credebant.
They immediately sent ten ships, and a few days later ten others, with Eudamus as commander of them all, whom they believed, though by no means equal to Pausistratus in other warlike virtues, would be a more cautious leader in proportion as he had less courage.
§37.12.10Romani et Eumenes rex in Erythraeam primum classem applicuerunt.
The Romans and King Eumenes first brought their fleet to Erythraea.
ibi noctem unam morati postero die Corycum promunturium tenuerunt.
Having delayed there for one night, on the following day they reached the promontory of Corycus.
§37.12.11inde cum in proxima Samiae vellent traicere, non expectato solis ortu, ex quo statum caeli notare gubernatores possent, in incertam tempestatem miserunt.
From there, when they wished to cross over to the nearest part of the Samian territory, not having awaited the rising of the sun, from which the steersmen could note the state of the sky, they launched into an uncertain tempest.
§37.12.12medio in cursu, aquilone in septentrionem verso, exasperato fluctibus mari iactari coeperunt.
In the middle of their course, the north wind having turned to the north, they began to be tossed about by the sea made rough by the waves.