§37.24.1sed momento temporis et navium virtus et usus maritimae rei terrorem omnem Rhodiis dempsit.
But in a moment of time, both the excellence of their ships and their experience in naval affairs deprived the Rhodians of all fear.
§37.24.2nam et in altum celeriter evectae naves locum post se quaeque venienti ad terram dedere, et si qua concurrerat rostro cum hostium nave, aut proram lacerabat, aut remos detergebat, aut libero inter ordines discursu praetervecta in puppim impetum dabat.
For both the ships that had quickly moved out into the open sea yielded room behind them to each one coming toward the land, and if any had clashed beak to beak with an enemy's ship, it would either shatter its prow, or sweep away its oars, or, sailing past with free movement between the rows, would make an attack on its stern.
§37.24.3maxime exterruit hepteris regia a multo minore Rhodia nave uno ictu demersa; §37.24.4itaque iam haud dubie dextrum cornu hostium in fugam inclinabat.
What terrified them most was that a royal hepteres was sunk by a single blow from a much smaller Rhodian ship; and so now without doubt the enemy's right wing was turning to flight.
Eudamum in alto multitudine navium maxime Hannibal, ceteris omnibus longe praestantem, urgebat, et circumvenisset, ni signo sublato ex praetoria nave, quo dispersam classem in unum colligi mos erat, omnes quae in dextro cornu vicerant naves ad opem ferendam suis concurrissent.
In the open sea, Hannibal, with a great number of ships, was especially pressing hard upon Eudamus, who was by far the most outstanding of all the rest, and would have surrounded him, had not all the ships which had been victorious on the right wing, upon the raising of the signal from the flagship—by which it was customary for a scattered fleet to be gathered into one—concurred to bring aid to their comrades.
§37.24.5tum et Hannibal quaeque circa eum naves erant capessunt fugam; nec insequi Rhodii ex magna parte aegris et ob id celerius fessis remigibus potuerunt.
Then both Hannibal and the ships around him took to flight; and the Rhodians were unable to pursue, because for the most part their rowers were sick and for that reason more quickly exhausted.
§37.24.6cum in alto, ubi substiterant, cibo reficerent vires, contemplatus Eudamus hostis claudas mutilatasque naves apertis navibus remulco trahentis, viginti paulo amplius integras abscedentis, e turri praetoriae navis silentio facto “exsurgite” inquit “et egregium spectaculum capessite oculis. ” §37.24.7consurrexere omnes, contemplatique trepidationem fugamque hostium prope una voce omnes, ut sequerentur, exclamaverunt.
While they were restoring their strength with food in the open sea where they had halted, Eudamus, having observed that the enemy were towing their crippled and damaged ships with open ships, and that a little more than twenty undamaged ships were retreating, called for silence from the tower of the flagship and said: "Arise, and feast your eyes on this splendid spectacle." They all arose, and having observed the panic and flight of the enemy, they all cried out with almost one voice that they should pursue.
§37.24.8ipsius Eudami multis ictibus vulnerata navis erat; Pamphilidam et Chariclitum insequi, quoad putarent tutum, §37.24.9iussit.
Eudamus' own ship had been damaged by many blows; he ordered Pamphilidas and Chariclitus to pursue as far as they thought it safe.
aliquamdiu secuti sunt; postquam terrae appropinquabat Hannibal, veriti, ne includerentur vento in hostium ora, ad Eudamum revecti hepterem captam, quae primo concursu icta erat, aegre Phaselidem pertraxerunt.
They pursued for some time; but when Hannibal was approaching land, fearing lest they should be hemmed in by the wind on the enemy's coast, they sailed back to Eudamus and with difficulty towed to Phaselis the captured hepteres, which had been struck in the first encounter.
§37.24.10inde Rhodum non tam victoria laeti, quam alius alium accusantes, quod, cum potuisset, non omnis submersa aut capta classis hostium foret, redierunt.
Thence they returned to Rhodes, not so much rejoicing in victory as accusing one another because, when it had been possible, the entire fleet of the enemy had not been sunk or captured.
§37.24.11Hannibal, ictus uno proelio adverso, ne tum quidem praetervehi Lyciam audebat, cum coniungi veteri regiae classi quam primum cuperet; §37.24.12et ne id ei facere liberum esset, Rhodii Chariclitum cum viginti navibus rostratis ad Patara et Megisten portum miserunt.
Hannibal, defeated in a single adverse battle, did not dare even then to sail past Lycia, although he desired to join the old royal fleet as soon as possible; and that he might not be free to do this, the Rhodians sent Chariclitus with twenty rostrate ships to Patara and the harbor of Megiste.
§37.24.13Eudamum cum septem navibus maximis ex ea classe, cui praefuerat, Samum redire ad Romanos iusserunt, ut, quantum consilio, quantum auctoritate valeret, compelleret Romanos ad Patara expugnanda.
Eudamus they ordered to return with seven of the largest ships from that fleet which he had commanded to the Romans at Samos, so that, exerting all his influence in counsel and authority, he might urge the Romans to capture Patara.