§44.45.1tertio die Perseus, quam pugnatum erat, Amphipolim venit.
On the third day after the battle was fought, Perseus arrived at Amphipolis.
§44.45.2inde oratores cum caduceo ad Paulum misit.
From there he sent envoys with a herald's staff to Paulus.
interim Hippias et Midon et Pantauchus, principes amicorum regis, Beroea, quo ex acie confugerant, ipsi ad consulem profecti Romanis se dedunt.
Meanwhile Hippias, Midon, and Pantauchus, the chief among the king's friends, having themselves set out to the consul from Beroea, where they had fled from the battle, surrendered to the Romans.
hoc idem et alii deinceps metu perculsi parabant facere.
One after another, others also, stricken with fear, were preparing to do the same.
§44.45.3consul nuntiis victoriae Q. Fabio filio et L. Lentulo et Q. Metello cum litteris Romam missis spolia iacentis hostium exercitus peditibus concessit, equitibus praedam circumiecti agri, dum ne amplius duabus noctibus a castris abessent.
Having sent his son Q. Fabius, L. Lentulus, and Q. Metellus to Rome with letters as messengers of the victory, the consul granted the spoils of the fallen enemy army to the infantry, and the plunder of the surrounding fields to the cavalry, provided that they should not be absent from the camp for more than two nights.
§44.45.4ipse propius mare ad Pydnam castra movit.
He himself moved his camp closer to the sea, toward Pydna.
§44.45.5Beroea primum, deinde Thessalonica et Pella et deinceps omnis ferme Macedonia intra biduum dedita.
First Beroea, then Thessalonica and Pella, and subsequently almost the whole of Macedonia surrendered within two days.
§44.45.6Pydnaei, qui proximi erant, nondum miserant legatos; multitudo incondita plurium simul gentium turbaque, quae ex acie fuga in unum conpulsa erat, consilium et consensum civitatis inpediebat; nec clausae modo portae, sed etiam inaedificatae erant.
The people of Pydna, who were the nearest, had not yet sent envoys; a disorderly multitude of several nations combined, and a crowd that had been driven together into one place in flight from the battle, prevented the council and consensus of the city; and the gates were not only closed, but even built up.
§44.45.7missi Midon et Pantauchus sub muros ad conloquium Solonis, qui praesidio praeerat; per eum emittitur militaris turba.
Midon and Pantauchus were sent under the walls to hold a conference with Solon, who was in command of the garrison; through him the military crowd was sent out.
§44.45.8oppidum deditum militibus datur diripiendum.
The surrendered town was given to the soldiers to be plundered.
Perseus una tantum spe Bisaltarum auxilii temptata, ad quos nequiquam miserat legatos, in contionem processit Philippum secum filium habens, §44.45.9ut et ipsos Amphipolitanos et equitum peditumque, qui aut se persecuti aut fuga eodem delati erant, adhortando animos confirmaret.
Perseus, having tried only his single hope of aid from the Bisaltae, to whom he had sent envoys in vain, went forward to the assembly, having his son Philip with him, so that by exhorting both the Amphipolitans themselves and the horse and foot who had either followed him or had been brought to the same place by flight, he might strengthen their courage.
§44.45.10sed aliquotiens dicere incipientem cum lacrimae praepedissent, quia ipse hiscere nequiit, Euandro Cretensi editis, quae agi cum multitudine vellet, de templo descendit.
But when tears had several times prevented him as he began to speak, because he himself could not open his mouth, he descended from the temple after declaring to Evander the Cretan what he wished to be done with the multitude.
§44.45.11multitudo, sicut ad conspectum regis fletumque tam miserabilem et ipsa ingemuerat lacrimaveratque, ita Euandri orationem aspernabatur; et quidam ausi sunt media ex contione succlamare “abite hinc, ne, qui pauci supersumus, propter vos pereamus. ” §44.45.12horum ferocia vocem Euandri clausit.
The multitude, just as they had themselves groaned and wept at the sight of the king and such a pitiable weeping, so they spurned Evander's speech; and some dared to shout out from the middle of the assembly, "Depart from here, lest we, the few who survive, perish on your account." The fierceness of these men stopped the voice of Evander.
rex inde domum se recepit pecuniaque et auro argentoque in lembos, qui in Strymone stabant, delatis et ipse ad flumen descendit.
The king thereupon retired to his house, and after having his money, gold, and silver carried into the boats which were lying in the Strymon, he himself also went down to the river.
§44.45.13Thraces navibus se committere non ausi domos dilapsi et alia militaris generis turba; Cretenses spe pecuniae secuti.
The Thracians, not daring to trust themselves to the ships, dispersed to their homes, as did the rest of the crowd of the military class; the Cretans followed in the hope of money.
et quoniam in dividendo plus offensionum quam gratiae erat, quinquaginta talenta iis posita sunt in ripa diripienda.
And since there was more offense than gratitude in the division, fifty talents were placed on the bank for them to plunder.
§44.45.14ab hac direptione cum per tumultum naves conscenderent, lembum unum in ostio amnis multitudine gravatum merserunt.
When they were embarking on the ships in confusion after this plundering, they sank one boat at the mouth of the river, weighed down by the multitude.
Galepsum eo die, postero Samothracam, quam petebant, perveniunt; §44.45.15ad duo milia talentum pervecta eo dicuntur.
On that day they reached Galepsus, and on the next Samothrace, which they were making for; about two thousand talents are said to have been carried thither.