§42.51.1Pellae, in vetere regia Macedonum, hoc consilium erat.
At Pella, in the old palace of the Macedonians, this council was held.
“geramus ergo” inquit, “dis bene iuvantibus, quando ita videtur, bellum; ” litterisque circa praefectos dimissis, Citium — Macedoniae oppidum est —
"Let us then," he said, "with the good help of the gods, since it seems best, wage war;" and, sending letters to the prefects in all directions, to Citium—this is a town in Macedonia— he gathered all his forces.
§42.51.2copias omnis contrahit. ipse centum hostiis sacrificio regaliter Minervae, quam vocant Alcidemon, facto cum purpuratorum et satellitum manu profectus Citium est.
He himself, after performing a royal sacrifice of a hundred victims to Minerva, whom they call Alcidemos, set out for Citium with a band of courtiers and guards.
eo iam omnes Macedonum et externorum auxiliorum convenerant copiae.
By that time, all the forces of the Macedonians and the foreign auxiliaries had assembled there.
§42.51.3castra ante urbem ponit omnisque armatos in campo instruxit; summa omnium quadraginta tria milia armata fuere; quorum pars ferme dimidia phalangitae erant; §42.51.4Hippias Beroeaeus praeerat.
He pitched camp before the city and drew up all the armed men in the plain; the total of all the armed forces was forty-three thousand, of whom nearly half were phalangites; Hippias of Beroea was in command of them.
delecta deinde et viribus et robore aetatis ex omni caetratorum numero duo milia erant: agema hanc ipsi legionem vocabant; praefectos habebat Leonnatum et Thrasippum Eulyestas.
Next, there were two thousand selected for their strength and vigor of age from the whole number of caetrati; they themselves called this unit the agema; it had as prefects Leonnatus and Thrasippus of Eulyestae.
§42.51.5ceterorum caetratorum, trium ferme milium hominum, dux erat Antiphilus Edessaeus.
The leader of the rest of the caetrati, about three thousand men, was Antiphilus of Edessa.
Paeones et ex Paroria et Parastrymonia — sunt autem ea loca subiecta Thraciae — et Agrianes, admixtis etiam Threcibus incolis, trium milium ferme et ipsi expleverant numerum.
The Paeonians, both from Paroria and Parastrymonia—these places are subject to Thrace—and the Agrianes, with some Thracian inhabitants mixed in, also made up a number of about three thousand.
§42.51.6armaverat contraxeratque eos Didas Paeon, qui adulescentem Demetrium occiderat.
Didas the Paeonian, who had killed the young Demetrius, had armed and assembled them.
§42.51.7et armatorum duo milia Gallorum erant; praefectus Asclepiodotus ab Heraclea ex Sintis; tria milia Threcum liberorum suum ducem habebant.
There were also two thousand armed Gauls; their prefect was Asclepiodotus of Heraclea in Sintice; three thousand free Thracians had their own leader.
Cretensium par ferme numerus suos duces sequebatur. Susum Phalasarnaeum et Syllum Gnosium.
An almost equal number of Cretans followed their own leaders, Susus of Phalasarna and Syllus of Cnossus.
§42.51.8et Leonides Lacedaemonius quingentis ex Graecia, mixto generi hominum, praeerat.
And Leonides the Lacedaemonian was in command of five hundred men from Greece, of a mixed class of people.
regii is generis ferebatur, exul, damnatus frequenti concilio Achaeorum litteris ad Persea deprensis.
He was said to be of royal stock, an exile, condemned by a well-attended council of the Achaeans because of letters to Perseus having been intercepted.
§42.51.9Aetolorum et Boeotorum, qui non explebant plus quam quingentorum omnes numerum, Lyco Achaeus praefectus erat.
Lyco the Achaean was the prefect of the Aetolians and Boeotians, who all together did not make up a number of more than five hundred.
ex his mixtis tot populorum, tot gentium auxiliis duodecim milia armatorum ferme efficiebantur.
From these mixed auxiliaries of so many peoples and so many nations, about twelve thousand armed men were made up.
§42.51.10equitum ex tota Macedonia contraxerat tria milia.
He had collected three thousand cavalry from the whole of Macedonia.
venerat eodem Cotys, Seuthis filius, rex gentis Odrysarum, cum mille delectis equitibus, pari ferme peditum numero.
To the same place had come Cotys, son of Seuthes, king of the nation of the Odrysae, with a thousand selected horsemen, and an almost equal number of infantry.
§42.51.11ita summa totius exercitus triginta novem milia peditum erant, quattuor equitum.
Thus, the total of the whole army was thirty-nine thousand infantry and four thousand cavalry.
satis constabat, secundum eum exercitum, quem magnus Alexander in Asiam traiecit, numquam ullius Macedonum regis copias tantas fuisse.
It was well established that, next to that army which Alexander the Great led across into Asia, the forces of any Macedonian king had never been so great.