§38.2.1Philippus audita defectione Athamaniae cum sex milibus armatorum profectus ingenti celeritate Gomphos pervenit.
Philip, having heard of the revolt of Athamania, set out with six thousand armed men and arrived at Gomphi with great speed.
§38.2.2ibi relicta maiore parte exercitus — neque enim ad tanta itinera sufficerent — cum duobus milibus Athenaeum, quod unum a praesidio suo retentum fuerat, pervenit.
Leaving the greater part of his army there — for they would not have been equal to such arduous marches — he arrived with two thousand men at Athenaeum, which alone had been retained by his garrison.
§38.2.3inde proximis temptatis cum facile animadvertisset cetera hostilia esse, Gomphos regressus omnibus copiis simul in Athamaniam redit.
Having made attempts from there on the neighboring places, when he easily perceived that the rest was hostile, he returned to Gomphi and then re-entered Athamania with all his forces together.
§38.2.4Xenonem inde cum mille peditibus praemissum Aethopiam occupare iubet, opportune Argitheae imminentem; §38.2.5quem ubi teneri ab suis locum vidit, ipse circa templum Iovis Acraei posuit castra.
From there he ordered Xenon, who had been sent ahead with a thousand infantry, to occupy Aethopia, which opportunely overlooked Argithea; When he saw that this place was held by his men, he himself pitched camp around the temple of Jupiter Acraeus.
ibi unum diem foeda tempestate retentus, postero die ducere ad Argitheam intendit.
Having been detained there for one day by a foul storm, on the following day he intended to march towards Argithea.
§38.2.6euntibus extemplo apparuere Athamanes in tumulos imminentis viae discurrentes.
As they were marching, suddenly there appeared Athamanians running about on the hills that overlooked the road.
ad quorum conspectum constitere prima signa, totoque agmine pavor et trepidatio erat, §38.2.7et pro se quisque, quidnam futurum esset, cogitare, si in valles subiectas rupibus agmen foret demissum.
At the sight of them, the foremost standards halted, and there was panic and trepidation throughout the entire line of march, and each one for himself pondered what would happen if the column should be led down into the valleys that lay beneath the cliffs.
§38.2.8haec tumultuatio regem cupientem, si se sequerentur, raptim evadere angustias, revocare primos et eadem, qua venerat, via referre coegit signa.
This confusion compelled the king, who wished to escape the pass rapidly if they would follow him, to recall the foremost and to retreat by the same road by which he had come.
Athamanes primo ex intervallo quieti sequebantur; §38.2.9postquam Aetoli se coniunxerunt, hos, ut ab tergo agmini instarent, reliquerunt, ipsi ab lateribus se circumfuderunt, §38.2.10quidam per notas calles breviore via praegressi transitus insedere; tantumque tumultus Macedonibus est iniectum, ut fugae magis effusae quam itineris ordinati modo multis armis virisque relictis flumen traiecerint.
At first, the Athamanians followed quietly at a distance; after the Aetolians joined them, they left the latter to press upon the rear of the column, while they themselves threw themselves around the flanks; some, having gone ahead along familiar paths by a shorter route, occupied the passes; and so great a panic was struck into the Macedonians that they crossed the river in the manner of a scattered flight rather than an orderly march, leaving behind many arms and men.
§38.2.11hic finis sequendi fuit.
Here was the end of the pursuit.
inde tuto Macedones Gomphos et a Gomphis in Macedoniam redierunt.
From there the Macedonians returned safely to Gomphi, and from Gomphi to Macedonia.
§38.2.12Athamanes Aetolique Aethopiam ad Xenonem ac mille Macedonas opprimendos undique concurrerunt.
The Athamanians and Aetolians rushed from all sides to Aethopia to crush Xenon and his thousand Macedonians.
§38.2.13Macedones parum loco freti ab Aethopia in altiorem deruptioremque undique tumulum concessere; quo pluribus ex locis aditu invento expulere eos Athamanes, §38.2.14dispersosque et per invia atque ignotas rupes iter fugae non expedientis partim ceperunt partim interfecerunt.
The Macedonians, trusting little in the place, withdrew from Aethopia to a hill that was higher and steeper on all sides; access having been found to this place from several directions, the Athamanians drove them out, and having dispersed them as they attempted a difficult flight through trackless ways and unknown cliffs, they partly captured and partly slew them.
multi pavore in derupta praecipitati; perpauci cum Xenone ad regem evaserunt.
Many, in panic, threw themselves down the precipices; very few escaped with Xenon to the king.
postea per indutias sepeliendi caesos potestas facta est.
Afterwards, during a truce, permission was granted to bury the slain.