§38.16.1Galli, magna hominum vis, seu inopia agri seu praedae spe, nullam gentem, per quas ituri essent, §38.16.2parem armis rati, Brenno duce in Dardanos pervenerunt.
The Gauls, a great multitude of men, whether through scarcity of land or the hope of plunder, thinking that no nation through which they were to pass was a match for them in arms, arrived under the leadership of Brennus among the Dardani.
ibi seditio orta est; ad viginti milia hominum cum Lonorio ac Lutario regulis secessione facta a Brenno in Thraeciam iter avertunt.
There a mutiny arose; about twenty thousand men, having revolted from Brennus under the chieftains Lonorius and Lutarius, turned their march into Thrace.
§38.16.3ubi cum resistentibus pugnando, pacem petentibus stipendium imponendo Byzantium cum pervenissent, aliquamdiu oram Propontidis, vectigalis habendo regionis eius urbes, §38.16.4obtinuerunt.
When, by fighting against those who resisted and imposing tribute on those who sued for peace, they had arrived at Byzantium, they held for some time the coast of the Propontis, making the cities of that region tributary.
cupido inde eos in Asiam transeundi, audientis ex propinquo, quanta ubertas eius terrae esset, cepit; et Lysimachia fraude capta Chersonesoque omni armis possessa ad Hellespontum descenderunt.
Then a desire to cross over into Asia seized them, as they heard from close at hand how great the fertility of that land was; and having captured Lysimachia by treachery and possessed the whole Chersonese by force of arms, they went down to the Hellespont.
§38.16.5ibi vero exiguo divisam freto cernentibus Asiam multo magis animi ad transeundum accensi; nuntiosque ad Antipatrum praefectum eius orae de transitu mittebant.
But when they beheld Asia separated from them by only a narrow strait, their minds were much more inflamed with the desire to cross; and they kept sending messengers to Antipater, the governor of that coast, concerning their passage.
quae res cum lentius spe ipsorum traheretur, §38.16.6alia rursus nova inter regulos seditio orta est.
When this matter was dragged out more slowly than they hoped, another new mutiny arose among the chieftains.
Lonorius retro, unde venerat, cum maiore parte hominum repetit Byzantium; Lutarius Macedonibus per speciem legationis ab Antipatro ad speculandum missis duas tectas naves et tris lembos adimit.
Lonorius, with the greater part of the men, returned back to Byzantium, whence he had come; Lutarius took away two decked ships and three boats from the Macedonians who had been sent by Antipater under the pretense of an embassy to spy.
iis alios atque alios dies noctesque travehendo intra paucos dies omnis copias traicit.
By ferrying others over day and night, he crossed all his forces within a few days.
§38.16.7haud ita multo post Lonorius adiuvante Nicomede Bithyniae rege a Byzantio transmisit.
Not long afterwards, Lonorius, with the assistance of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, crossed over from Byzantium.
§38.16.8coeunt deinde in unum rursus Galli et auxilia Nicomedi dant adversus Ziboetam, tenentem partem Bithyniae, gerenti bellum.
Then the Gauls united again and gave aid to Nicomedes against Ziboetas, who held a part of Bithynia and was waging war against him.
§38.16.9atque eorum maxime opera devictus Ziboeta est, Bithyniaque omnis in dicionem Nicomedis concessit.
And chiefly by their help Ziboetas was defeated, and all Bithynia came under the power of Nicomedes.
profecti ex Bithynia in Asiam processerunt.
Setting out from Bithynia, they advanced into Asia.
non plus ex viginti milibus hominum quam decem armata erant.
Of the twenty thousand men, not more than ten thousand were armed.
§38.16.10tamen tantum terroris omnibus quae cis Taurum incolunt gentibus iniecerunt, ut quas adissent quasque non adissent, pariter ultimae propinquis, imperio parerent.
Yet they inspired so much terror in all the nations that dwell on this side of Taurus, that those whom they had visited and those whom they had not visited, the most remote equally with those near, obeyed their command.
§38.16.11postremo cum tres essent gentes, Tolostobogii Trocmi Tectosages, in tris partis, qua cuique populorum suorum vectigalis Asia esset, §38.16.12diviserunt.
At last, since there were three tribes, the Tolostobogii, the Trocmi, and the Tectosages, they divided Asia into three parts, according to which part should be tributary to each of their tribes.
Trocmis Hellesponti ora data; Tolostobogii Aeolida atque Ioniam, Tectosages mediterranea Asiae sortiti sunt.
To the Trocmi the coast of the Hellespont was given; the Tolostobogii obtained by lot Aeolis and Ionia, and the Tectosages the inland parts of Asia.
et stipendium tota cis Taurum Asia exigebant, §38.16.13sedem autem ipsi sibi circa Halyn flumen cepere.
And they exacted tribute from the whole of Asia on this side of Taurus, but they themselves took their seat around the river Halys.
tantusque terror eorum nominis erat, multitudine etiam magna subole aucta, ut Syriae quoque ad postremum reges stipendium dare non abnuerent.
And so great was the terror of their name, their multitude also being increased by a large progeny, that even the kings of Syria at last did not refuse to pay them tribute.
§38.16.14primus Asiam incolentium abnuit Attalus, pater regis Eumenis; audacique incepto praeter opinionem omnium adfuit fortuna, et signis collatis superior fuit.
Attalus, the father of King Eumenes, was the first of those inhabiting Asia to refuse; and fortune favored his bold undertaking beyond the expectation of all, and he was superior in a pitched battle.
non tamen ita infregit animos eorum, ut absisterent imperio; §38.16.15eaedem opes usque ad bellum Antiochi cum Romanis manserunt.
Yet he did not so break their spirits that they desisted from their dominion; their power remained the same until the war of Antiochus with the Romans.
tum quoque, pulso Antiocho, magnam spem habuerunt, quia procul mari incolerent, Romanum exercitum ad se non perventurum.
Even then, after Antiochus was defeated, they had great hope that, because they dwelt far from the sea, the Roman army would not reach them.