§37.29.1traducta classe ad urbem ignaris omnibus egressi milites nautaeque sunt ad commeatus et vinum maxime dividendum in naves, §37.29.2cum medio forte diei agrestis quidam ad praetorem adductus nuntiat alterum iam diem classem stare ad insulam Macrin, et paulo ante visas quasdam moveri tamquam ad profectionem naves.
After the fleet had been transferred to the city, while everyone was unaware, the soldiers and sailors disembarked to distribute the provisions, and especially the wine, into the ships, when by chance around midday, a certain countryman was brought to the praetor and reported that the fleet had already been standing at the island of Macris for a second day, and that a little while before some ships had been seen to move as if for departure.
§37.29.3re subita perculsus praetor tubicines canere iubet, ut, si qui per agros palati essent, redirent; §37.29.4tribunos in urbem mittit ad cogendos milites nautasque in naves.
Shaken by this sudden development, the praetor ordered the trumpeters to sound, so that if any had scattered through the fields, they might return; he sent tribunes into the city to gather the soldiers and sailors into the ships.
haud secus quam in repentino incendio aut capta urbe trepidatur, aliis in urbem currentibus ad suos revocandos, aliis ex urbe naves cursu repetentibus, incertisque clamoribus, quibus ipsis tubae obstreperent, turbatis imperiis tandem concursum ad naves est.
There was a panic no different from that in a sudden fire or a captured city, with some running into the city to recall their men, others rushing from the city back to the ships, and amidst confused shouts which the trumpets themselves drowned out, with orders thrown into confusion, at last there was a rush to the ships.
§37.29.5vix suas quisque noscere aut adire prae tumultu poterat; trepidatumque cum periculo et in mari et in terra foret, ni partibus divisis Aemilius cum praetoria nave primus e portu in altum evectus, excipiens insequentis, suo quamque ordine in frontem instruxisset, §37.29.6Eudamus Rhodiaque classis substitissent ad terram, ut et sine trepidatione conscenderent et, §37.29.7ut quaeque parata esset, exiret navis.
Amid the tumult, scarcely could anyone recognize or reach his own ship; and a panic accompanied by danger would have occurred both on sea and on land, had not, with duties divided, Aemilius first gone out from the harbor into the deep with the praetorian ship, and, receiving those who followed, drawn each up in its own order into a front line, and had not Eudamus and the Rhodian fleet remained near the land, so that they might embark without panic, and, that as each ship was ready, it might go out.
ita et explicuere ordinem primae in conspectu praetoris, et coactum agmen ab Rhodiis est, instructaque acies, velut cernerent regios, in altum processit.
Thus, the first ships deployed their order in the sight of the praetor, and the rear was brought up by the Rhodians, and the drawn-up line of battle advanced into the deep as if they saw the king's forces.
inter Myonnesum et Corycum promunturium erant, cum hostem conspexere.
They were between Myonnesum and the promontory of Corycus when they sighted the enemy.
§37.29.8et regia classis, binis in ordinem navibus longo agmine veniens, et ipsa aciem adversam explicuit laevo tantum evecta cornu, ut amplecti et circuire dextrum cornu Romanorum posset.
And the royal fleet, coming in a long column with ships two abreast, itself also deployed an opposing line of battle, extending only its left wing so that it could embrace and encircle the right wing of the Romans.
§37.29.9quod ubi Eudamus, qui cogebat agmen, vidit, non posse aequare ordinem Romanos et tantum non iam circuiri ab dextro cornu, concitat naves — et erant Rhodiae longe omnium celerrimae tota classe —, aequatoque cornu praetoriae navi, in qua Polyxenidas erat, suam obiecit.
When Eudamus, who was bringing up the rear, saw this, and that the Romans could not match the length of the line and were already all but encircled on the right wing, he spurred on his ships—and the Rhodian ships were by far the swiftest of all in the entire fleet—and, having equalized the wing, opposed his own ship to the praetorian ship in which Polyxenidas was.