§44.2.1huius generis adhortatione accensis militum animis consultare de summa gerendi belli coepit.
Having inflamed the minds of the soldiers with an encouragement of this kind, he began to consult on the general conduct of the war.
eo et C. Marcius praetor a Chalcide classe accepta venit.
To that place also came the praetor C. Marcius, having taken over the fleet from Chalcis.
§44.2.2placuit non ultra morando in Thessalia tempus terere, sed movere extemplo castra atque inde pergere in Macedoniam, §44.2.3et praetorem dare operam, ut eodem tempore classis quoque invehatur hostium litoribus.
It was resolved not to waste time by lingering any longer in Thessaly, but to move the camp immediately and from there to proceed into Macedonia, and that the praetor should take care that at the same time the fleet also should be sailed to the enemy's coasts.
§44.2.4praetore dimisso consul menstruum frumentum iusso milite secum ferre profectus decumo post die, quam exercitum acceperat, castra movit; §44.2.5et unius diei progressus iter convocatis itinerum ducibus cum exponere in consilio iussisset, qua quisque ducturus esset, summotis iis, quam potissimum viam peteret, rettulit ad consilium.
The praetor having been dismissed, the consul, having ordered the soldiers to carry a month's provisions with them, set out and moved his camp on the tenth day after he had received the army; and having advanced one day's march, he called together the guides of the routes, and when he had ordered them to explain in council where each was intending to lead them, after dismissing them, he referred to the council which road he should preferably take.
§44.2.6aliis per Pythoum placebat via, aliis per Cambunios montes, qua priore anno duxerat Hostilius consul, aliis praeter Ascuridem paludem.
To some the road through Pythoum was pleasing, to others through the Cambunian mountains, where the consul Hostilius had led the army the previous year, to others past the Ascuris marsh.
§44.2.7restabat aliquantum viae communis; itaque in id tempus, quo prope divortium itinerum castra posituri erant, deliberatio eius rei differtur.
There remained some distance of common road; therefore, the deliberation of this matter was deferred to that time when they were about to pitch camp near the fork of the roads.
§44.2.8in Perrhaebiam inde ducit, et inter Azorum et Dolichen stativa habuit ad consulendum rursus, quam potissimum capesseret viam.
From there he led into Perrhaebia, and had a standing camp between Azorus and Doliche, to consult again which road he should preferably take.
§44.2.9per eosdem dies Perseus cum adpropinquare hostem sciret, quod iter petiturus esset, ignarus, omnis saltus insidere praesidiis statuit.
During those same days, Perseus, although he knew that the enemy was approaching, being ignorant of what route they were about to take, decided to occupy all the passes with garrisons.
§44.2.10in iugum Cambuniorum montium — Volustana ipsi vocant — decem milia levis armaturae † iuvenum cum duce Asclepiodoto mittit; §44.2.11ad castellum, quod super Ascuridem paludem erat — Lapathus vocatur locus —, Hippias tenere saltum cum duodecim milium Macedonum praesidio iussus.
To the ridge of the Cambunian mountains — they themselves call it Volustana — he sent ten thousand light-armed young men with Asclepiodotus as commander; at the fort which was above the Ascuris marsh — the place is called Lapathus — Hippias was ordered to hold the pass with a garrison of twelve thousand Macedonians.
§44.2.12ipse cum reliquis copiis primo circa Dium stativa habuit; deinde adeo inops consilii, ut obtorpuisse videretur, cum equitibus expeditis litore nunc Heracleum, nunc Philam percurrebat, eodem inde cursu Dium repetens.
He himself with the remaining forces at first held a standing camp around Dium; then, so utterly at a loss for a plan that he seemed to have become stupefeid, he kept running with light cavalry along the shore, now to Heracleum, now to Phila, returning from there by the same course to Dium.