§42.52.1sextus et vicesimus annus agebatur, ex quo petenti Philippo data pax erat; §42.52.2per id omne tempus quieta Macedonia et progeniem ediderat, cuius magna pars matura militiae esset, et levibus bellis Thracum accolarum, quae exercerent magis quam fatigarent, sub adsidua tamen militia fuerat.
The twenty-sixth year was passing since peace had been granted to Philip on his petition; during all that time Macedonia, being at peace, had produced a generation of which a great part was ripe for military service, and by light wars with the neighboring Thracians, which served to train rather than exhaust them, it had nevertheless remained under constant military practice.
§42.52.3et diu meditatum Philippo primo, deinde et Persei Romanum bellum, omnia ut instructa parataque essent, effecerat.
And the war with Rome, long meditated first by Philip, and then also by Perseus, had brought it about that all things were equipped and prepared.
§42.52.4mota parumper acies, non iusto decursu tamen, ne stetisse tantum in armis viderentur; armatosque, sicut erant, ad contionem vocavit.
The line of battle was moved for a short time, though not in a regular maneuver, lest they should seem to have merely stood in arms; and he called the armed men, just as they were, to an assembly.
§42.52.5ipse constitit in tribunali, circa se habens filios duos, quorum maior Philippus natura frater, adoptione filius, minor, quem Alexandrum vocabant, naturalis erat.
He himself stood on the tribunal, having around him his two sons, of whom the elder, Philip, was by nature his brother and by adoption his son, while the younger, whom they called Alexander, was his natural son.
§42.52.6cohortatus est milites ad bellum; iniurias populi Romani in patrem seque commemoravit: §42.52.7illum omnibus indignitatibus conpulsum ad rebellandum, inter apparatum belli fato oppressum; ad se simul legatos, simul milites ad occupandas Graeciae urbes missos.
He exhorted the soldiers to war; he recounted the injuries of the Roman people against his father and himself: how his father, driven by all indignities to rebel, had been cut off by fate in the midst of his preparations for war; and how, at the same time, embassies to himself and soldiers to occupy the cities of Greece had been sent.
§42.52.8fallaci dein conloquio per speciem reconciliandae pacis extractam hiemem, ut tempus ad conparandum haberent; consulem nunc venire cum duabus legionibus Romanis, quae singulae sena milia peditum, trecenos equites habeant, et pari ferme numero sociorum peditum equitumque.
Then, by a deceptive conference under the pretense of restoring peace, the winter had been dragged out, so that they might have time to prepare; now the consul was coming with two Roman legions, each of which had six thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry, and an almost equal number of allied infantry and cavalry.
§42.52.9eo ut accedant regum auxilia, Eumenis et Masinissae, non plus triginta septem milia peditum, duo equitum futura.
Even if the auxiliary forces of the kings, Eumenes and Masinissa, were added to this, there would not be more than thirty-seven thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry.
§42.52.10auditis hostium copiis respicerent suum ipsi exercitum, quantum numero, quantum genere militum praestarent tironibus raptim ad id bellum conscriptis ipsi, a pueris eruditi artibus militiae, tot subacti atque durati bellis.
Having heard of the enemy's forces, they should look back at their own army, to see how much they surpassed, in number and in the quality of their soldiers, raw recruits hastily conscripted for this war, while they themselves, from boyhood instructed in the arts of military service, had been disciplined and hardened by so many wars.
§42.52.11auxilia Romanis Lydos et Phrygas et Numidas esse, sibi Thracas Gallosque, ferocissimas gentium.
The auxiliaries for the Romans were Lydians, Phrygians, and Numidians, whereas they had Thracians and Gauls, the fiercest of nations.
arma illos habere ea, quae sibi quisque paraverit pauper miles, Macedonas prompta ex regio apparatu, per tot annos patris sui cura et inpensa facta.
The enemy had those arms which each poor soldier had prepared for himself, while the Macedonians had arms ready from the royal stores, made through so many years by the care and expense of his father.
§42.52.12commeatum illis cum procul, tum omnibus sub casibus maritimis fore; se et pecuniam et frumentum, praeter reditus metallorum, in decem annos seposuisse.
Their provisions would be both far away and subject to all the hazards of the sea; while he had set aside both money and grain, besides the revenues from the mines, for ten years.
§42.52.13omnia, quae deorum indulgentia, quae regia cura praeparanda fuerint, plena cumulataque habere Macedonas; §42.52.14animos habendos esse, quos habuerint maiores eorum, qui Europa omni domita transgressi in Asiam incognitum famae aperuerint armis orbem terrarum nec ante vincere desierint, quam Rubro mari inclusis, quod vincerent, defuerit.
Everything which by the favor of the gods and royal care had to be prepared, the Macedonians had in full and abundant measure; they must have the courage which their ancestors had, who, having subdued all Europe, crossed into Asia and opened with their arms a world unknown to fame, and did not cease to conquer until, shut in by the Red Sea, they lacked anything more to conquer.
§42.52.15at hercule nunc non de ultimis Indiae oris, sed de ipsius Macedoniae possessione certamen fortunam indixisse.
But indeed now fortune had declared a struggle, not for the remotest shores of India, but for the possession of Macedonia itself.
cum patre suo gerentis bellum Romanos speciosum Graeciae liberandae praetulisse titulum: §42.52.16nunc propalam Macedoniam in servitutem petere, ne rex vicinus imperio sit Romano, ne gens bello nobilis arma habeat.
When waging war with his father, the Romans had put forward the specious pretext of liberating Greece; now they openly sought Macedonia for slavery, so that there should be no neighboring king to the Roman empire, nor a nation noble in war should have arms.
haec enim tradenda superbis dominis esse cum rege regnoque, si absistere bello et facere imperata velint.
For these things, along with the king and the kingdom, would have to be surrendered to arrogant masters, if they wished to desist from war and do what was commanded.