§38.12.1eadem non aestate solum, sed etiam iisdem prope diebus, quibus haec a M. Fulvio consule in Aetolia gesta sunt, consul alter Cn. Manlius in Gallograecia bellum gessit, quod nunc ordiri pergam.
Not only in the same summer, but also almost in the same days in which these things were done by the consul Marcus Fulvius in Aetolia, the other consul Gnaeus Manlius waged war in Gallograecia, which I shall now proceed to set forth.
§38.12.2vere primo Ephesum consul venit, acceptisque copiis ab L. Scipione et exercitu lustrato contionem apud milites habuit, §38.12.3qua collaudata virtute eorum, quod cum Antiocho uno proelio debellassent, adhortatus eos ad novum cum Gallis suscipiendum bellum, qui et auxiliis iuvissent Antiochum, §38.12.4et adeo indomita haberent ingenia, ut nequiquam Antiochus emotus ultra iuga Tauri montis esset, nisi frangerentur opes Gallorum, de se quoque pauca, nec falsa nec immodica, adiecit.
At the beginning of spring the consul came to Ephesus, and having received the troops from Lucius Scipio and purified the army, he held an assembly before the soldiers, in which, having praised their valor because they had finished the war with Antiochus in a single battle, he exhorted them to undertake a new war with the Gauls, who had both assisted Antiochus with reinforcements and possessed such untamed dispositions that Antiochus would have been driven beyond the ridges of Mount Taurus in vain, unless the power of the Gauls were broken; he also added a few words about himself, neither false nor immoderate.
§38.12.5laeti milites cum frequenti adsensu consulem audiverunt, partem virium Antiochi fuisse Gallos credentes; §38.12.6rege superato nullum momentum in solis per se Gallorum copiis fore.
The soldiers listened to the consul joyfully and with general assent, believing that the Gauls had been a part of Antiochus' forces, and that, the king having been conquered, there would be no weight in the forces of the Gauls alone by themselves.
Eumenen haud in tempore abesse — Romae tum erat — credere consul, gnarum locorum hominumque, et cuius interesset frangi Gallorum opes.
The consul believed that Eumenes was absent at an inconvenient time — he was in Rome at that time — who was acquainted with the places and the people, and whose interest it was that the power of the Gauls should be broken.
§38.12.7Attalum igitur fratrem eius accersit a Pergamo, hortatusque ad capessendum secum bellum pollicentem suam suorumque operam domum ad comparandum dimittit.
He therefore summoned his brother Attalus from Pergamum, and having exhorted him to undertake the war with him, he sent him back home to make preparations, as Attalus promised his own assistance and that of his people.
§38.12.8paucos post dies profecto ab Epheso consuli ad Magnesiam occurrit Attalus cum mille peditibus equitibusque quingentis, Athenaeo fratre iusso cum ceteris copiis subsequi, commendata iis custodia Pergami, quos fratri regnoque fidos credebat.
A few days later, Attalus met the consul, who had set out from Ephesus, near Magnesia with a thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry, having ordered his brother Athenaeus to follow with the rest of the forces, after committing the custody of Pergamum to those whom he believed to be faithful to his brother and the kingdom.
§38.12.9consul collaudato iuvene cum omnibus copiis ad Maeandrum progressus castra posuit, quia vado superari amnis non poterat §38.12.10et contrahendae naves erant ad exercitum traiciendum.
The consul, having praised the young man, advanced with all his forces to the Maeander and pitched camp, because the river could not be crossed by a ford and boats had to be collected for transporting the army.
transgressi Maeandrum ad Hieran Comen pervenerunt.
Having crossed the Maeander, they arrived at Hiera Come.