§44.1.1principio veris, quod hiemem eam, qua haec gesta sunt, insecutum est, ab Roma profectus Q. Marcius Philippus consul cum quinque milibus, quod in supplementum legionum secum traiecturus erat, Brundisium pervenit.
At the beginning of spring, which followed that winter in which these things were done, the consul Q. Marcius Philippus, having set out from Rome, arrived at Brundisium with five thousand men, whom he was about to transport with him as a reinforcement for the legions.
§44.1.2M. Popilius consularis et alii pari nobilitate adulescentes tribuni militum in Macedonicas legiones consulem secuti sunt.
M. Popilius, a man of consular rank, and other young military tribunes of equal nobility, followed the consul to the Macedonian legions.
§44.1.3per eos dies et C. Marcius Figulus praetor, cui classis provincia evenerat, Brundisium venit; et simul ex Italia profecti Corcyram altero die, tertio Actium, Acarnaniae portum, tenuerunt.
During those days, the praetor C. Marcius Figulus, to whom the province of the fleet had fallen, also came to Brundisium; and having set out together from Italy, they reached Corcyra on the second day, and on the third day Actium, a port of Acarnania.
§44.1.4inde consul ad Ambraciam egressus itinere terrestri petit Thessaliam; praetor superato Leucata Corinthium sinum invectus et Creusae relictis navibus terra et ipse per mediam Boeotiam — diei unius expedito iter est — §44.1.5Chalcidem ad classem contendit.
From there, the consul, having disembarked at Ambracia, sought Thessaly by land; the praetor, having doubled Leucatas, sailed into the Corinthian gulf, and having left his ships at Creusa, he himself also went by land through the middle of Boeotia — a journey of one day for an unencumbered traveler — and hastened to Chalcis to the fleet.
castra eo tempore A. Hostilius in Thessalia circa Palaepharsalum habebat, sicut nulla re bellica memorabili gesta, ita ad † iunctam militarem disciplinam ab effusa licentia formato milite et sociis cum fide cultis et ab omni genere iniuriae defensis.
At that time, A. Hostilius was holding his camp in Thessaly around Palaepharsalus; though no memorable military exploit had been performed, yet the soldier had been trained to strict military discipline from unrestrained lawlessness, and the allies were treated with good faith and defended from every kind of injury.
§44.1.6audito successoris adventu cum arma viros equos cum cura inspexisset, ornato exercitu obviam venienti consuli processit.
Having heard of the arrival of his successor, and having carefully inspected the arms, men, and horses, he marched out with his army in good order to meet the coming consul.
§44.1.7et primus eorum congressus ex dignitate ipsorum ac Romani nominis, et in rebus deinde gerendis — proconsul enim ad exercitum mansit — §44.1.9summa concordia fuit.
And their first meeting was in accordance with their own dignity and that of the Roman name, and in the subsequent conduct of affairs — for the proconsul remained with the army — there was the greatest harmony.
paucis post diebus consul contionem apud milites habuit.
A few days later, the consul held an assembly before the soldiers.
§44.1.10orsus a parricidio Persei perpetrato in fratrem, cogitato in parentem, adiecit post scelere partum regnum veneficia, caedes, latrocinio nefando petitum Eumenen, iniurias in populum Romanum, direptiones sociarum urbium contra foedus; ea omnia quam diis quoque invisa essent, sensurum in exitu rerum suarum:
Having begun with the murder of his brother perpetrated by Perseus, and that against his parent which he had contemplated, he added next the kingdom acquired by crime, poisonings, slaughters, Eumenes targeted by an unspeakable assassination attempt, injuries against the Roman people, and the plundering of allied cities contrary to the treaty; how all these things were hated by the gods as well, he would realize in the end of his fortunes.
§44.1.11favere enim pietati fideique deos, per quae populus Romanus ad tantum fastigii venerit.
For the gods favored piety and good faith, through which the Roman people had arrived at such a height of greatness.
§44.1.12vires deinde populi Romani, iam terrarum orbem conplectentis, cum viribus Macedoniae, exercitus cum exercitibus conparavit: quanto maiores Philippi Antiochique opes non maioribus copiis fractas esse?
Then he compared the strength of the Roman people, now embracing the whole world, with the strength of Macedonia, and their armies with its armies: how much greater resources of Philip and Antiochus had been shattered by forces no larger than these?