§43.23.1rex cum non minore vexatione iumentorum hominumque, quam venerat, in Macedoniam redit; Appium tamen ab obsidione Phanotes fama ducentis ad Stratum Persei summovit. §43.23.2Cleuas cum praesidio inpigrorum iuvenum insecutus sub radicibus prope inviis montium ad mille hominum ex agmine inpedito occidit, ad ducentos cepit. §43.23.3Appius superatis angustiis in campo, quem Meleona vocant, stativa dierum paucorum habuit.
\nThe king returned to Macedonia with no less distress of beasts and men than that with which he had come; yet the rumor of Perseus marching toward Stratus removed Appius from the siege of Phanote.\n\nCleuas, having pursued with a guard of active young men, killed near a thousand men from the encumbered column under the almost impassable foothills of the mountains, and captured nearly two hundred.\n\nAppius, having overcome the narrow passes, kept a stationary camp for a few days in the plain which they call Meleona.
interim Cleuas adsumpto Philostrato, qui DC ex Epirotarum gente habebat, in agrum Antigonensem transcendit. §43.23.4Macedones ad depopulationem profecti; Philostratus cum cohorte sua in insidiis loco obscuro consedit.
Meanwhile Cleuas, taking with him Philostratus, who had six hundred of the Epirot nation, crossed over into the territory of Antigonea.\n\nThe Macedonians set out to plunder; Philostratus with his cohort settled in ambush in an obscure place.
in palatos populatores cum erupissent ab Antigonea armati, fugientes eos persequentes effusius in vallem insessam ab hostibus praecipitant. §43.23.5ibi DC occisis, centum ferme captis, et ubique prospere gesta re prope stativa Appi castra movent, ne qua vis sociis suis ab Romano exercitu inferri possit. §43.23.6Appius nequiquam in his locis terens tempus, dimissis Chaonum Thesprotorumque et si qui alii Epirotae erant praesidiis, cum Italicis militibus in Illyricum regressus, per Parthinorum socias urbes in hiberna militibus divisis, ipse Romam sacrificii causa redit. §43.23.7Perseus ex Penestarum gente mille pedites, ducentos equites revocatos Cassandream, praesidio ut essent, misit. §43.23.8ab Gentio eadem adferentes redierunt.
When armed men from Antigonea had rushed out upon the scattered plunderers, pursuing them as they fled too loosely, they plunged headlong into the valley occupied by the enemy.\n\nThere, six hundred having been killed and nearly a hundred captured, and having conducted the affair successfully everywhere, they moved their camp near the stationary camp of Appius, lest any violence could be brought upon their allies by the Roman army.\n\nAppius, wearing away time in these places in vain, having dismissed the garrisons of the Chaonians, Thesprotians, and whatever other Epirots there were, returned with the Italian soldiers into Illyricum, and having distributed the soldiers into winter quarters through the allied cities of the Parthinians, he himself returned to Rome for the purpose of performing sacrifice.\n\nPerseus sent a thousand infantry and two hundred cavalry recalled from the nation of the Penestians to Cassandrea, to be a garrison.\n\nThose bringing the same answers from Gentius returned.
nec deinde alios atque alios mittendo temptare eum destitit, cum appareret, quantum in eo praesidii esset, nec tamen impetrare ab animo posset, ut inpensam in rem maximi ad omnia momenti faceret.
Nor did he then cease to tempt him by sending messengers one after another, since it was apparent how much of a safeguard there was in him, yet he could not bring himself to make the expenditure for a matter of the greatest importance for all things.