§37.8.1Antiochus post navalem ad Corycum pugnam cum totam hiemem liberam in apparatus terrestris maritimosque habuisset, classi maxume reparandae, ne tota maris possessione pelleretur, intentus fuerat.
Antiochus, after the naval battle at Corycus, since he had had the whole winter free for land and naval preparations, had been chiefly intent on repairing his fleet, lest he should be driven from the entire possession of the sea.
§37.8.2succurrebat superatum se, cum classis afuisset Rhodiorum; quodsi ea quoque — nec commissuros Rhodios, ut iterum morarentur — certamini adesset, magno sibi navium numero opus fore, ut viribus et magnitudine classem hostium aequaret.
It occurred to him that he had been defeated even when the fleet of the Rhodians had been absent; but if that also should be present at the contest—and the Rhodians would not allow themselves to be delayed a second time—he would have need of a great number of ships, so that he might equal the fleet of the enemies in strength and size.
§37.8.3itaque et Hannibalem in Syriam miserat ad Phoenicum accersendas naves, et Polyxenidam, quo minus prospere res gesta erat, eo enixius et eas, quae erant, reficere et alias parare naves iussit.
Therefore he had both sent Hannibal to Syria to summon the ships of the Phoenicians, and ordered Polyxenidas, the less successfully the affair had been conducted, the more energetically both to refit those ships which they had and to prepare other vessels.
§37.8.4ipse in Phrygia hibernavit undique auxilia accersens.
He himself wintered in Phrygia, summoning auxiliaries from all sides.
etiam in Gallograeciam miserat; bellicosiores ea tempestate erant, Gallicos adhuc, nondum exoleta stirpe gentis, servantes animos.
He had also sent to Gallograecia; they were more warlike at that time, still preserving Gallic spirit, as the stock of the nation was not yet obsolete.
§37.8.5filium Seleucum in Aeolide reliquerat cum exercitu ad maritimas continendas urbes, quas illinc a Pergamo Eumenes, hinc a Phocaea Erythrisque Romani sollicitabant.
He had left his son Seleucus in Aeolis with an army to hold the coastal cities, which Eumenes was soliciting from one side from Pergamum, and the Romans from the other from Phocaea and Erythrae.
§37.8.6classis Romana, sicut ante dictum est, ad Canas hibernabat; eo media ferme hieme rex Eumenes cum duobus milibus peditum, equitibus quingentis venit.
The Roman fleet, as was said before, was wintering at Canae; thither, about the middle of winter, King Eumenes came with two thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry.
§37.8.7is cum magnam praedam agi posse dixisset ex agro hostium, qui circa Thyatiram esset, hortando perpulit Livium, ut quinque milia militum secum mitteret.
When he had said that a great deal of booty could be driven from the enemy's territory which was around Thyatira, by encouraging he prevailed upon Livius to send five thousand soldiers with him.
missi ingentem praedam intra paucos dies averterunt.
Those who were sent carried off huge booty within a few days.