§45.27.1dum haec in Illyrico geruntur, Paulus ante adventum decem legatorum Q. Maximum filium iam ab Roma regressum ad Aeginium et Agassas diripiendas mittit, Agassas, quod, cum Marcio consuli tradidissent urbem petita ultro societate Romana, defecerant rursus ad Persea; §45.27.2Aeginiensium novum crimen erat: §45.27.3famae de victoria Romanorum fidem non habentes in quosdam militum urbem ingressos hostiliter saevierant.
While these things were being done in Illyricum, Paulus, before the arrival of the ten commissioners, sent his son Q. Maximus, who had already returned from Rome, to plunder Aeginium and Agassae—Agassas because, although they had surrendered their city to the consul Marcius after having voluntarily sought a Roman alliance, they had revolted back to Perseus; the crime of the Aeginienses was recent: not believing the report of the Roman victory, they had treated with hostile cruelty some of the soldiers who had entered the city.
§45.27.4ad Aeniorum quoque urbem diripiendam L. Postumium misit, quod pertinacius quam finitumae civitates in armis fuerant.
He also sent L. Postumium to plunder the city of the Aenii, because they had remained in arms more obstinately than the neighboring states.
§45.27.5autumni fere tempus erat; cuius temporis initio ad circumeundam Graeciam visendaque, quae nobilitata fama maiora auribus accepta sunt, quam oculis noscuntur, uti statuit.
It was now about the time of autumn; at the beginning of which season he decided to employ it in traveling through Greece, and visiting those things which, made famous by report, are received as greater by the ears than they are known by the eyes.
§45.27.6praeposito castris C. Sulpicio Galo profectus cum haud magno comitatu, tegentibus latera Scipione filio et Athenaeo, Eumenis regis fratre, per Thessaliam Delphos petit, inclutum oraculum.
Having placed C. Sulpicius Galus in charge of the camp, he set out with a small retinue, with his son Scipio and Athenaeus, the brother of King Eumenes, guarding his flanks, and through Thessaly he sought Delphi, the famous oracle.
§45.27.7ubi sacrificio Apollini facto inchoatas in vestibulo columnas, quibus imposituri statuas regis Persei fuerant, suis statuis victor destinavit.
There, after offering sacrifice to Apollo, he destined for his own statues, as victor, the unfinished columns in the vestibule, on which they had intended to place the statues of King Perseus.
§45.27.8Lebadiae quoque templum Iovis Trophonii adit: ibi cum vidisset os specus, per quod oraculo utentes sciscitatum deos descendunt, sacrificio Iovi Hercynnaeque facto, quorum ibi templum est, Chalcidem ad spectaculum Euripi Euboeaeque, tantae insulae, ponte continenti iunctae descendit.
He also visited the temple of Jupiter Trophonius at Lebadia: there, when he had seen the mouth of the cave, through which those who consult the oracle descend to inquire of the gods, and had offered sacrifice to Jupiter and Hercynna, whose temple is there, he went down to Chalcis to view the Euripus and Euboea, that great island joined to the continent by a bridge.
§45.27.9a Chalcide Aulidem traicit, trium milium spatio distantem, portum inclutum statione quondam mille navium Agamemnoniae classis, Dianaeque templum, ubi navibus cursum ad Troiam filia victima aris admota rex ille regum petiit.
From Chalcis he crossed over to Aulis, three miles distant, a harbor famous for the former anchorage of the thousand ships of Agamemnon's fleet, and to the temple of Diana, where that king of kings sought a passage for his ships to Troy, after his daughter had been brought to the altar as a victim.
§45.27.10inde Oropum Atticae ventum est, ubi pro deo vates anticus colitur templumque vetustum est fontibus rivisque circa amoenum; §45.27.11Athenas inde, plenas quidem et ipsas vetustae famae, multa tamen visenda habentis, arcem, portus, muros Piraeum urbi iungentis, navalia, monumenta magnorum imperatorum, simulacra deorum hominumque, omni genere et materiae et artium insignia.
Thence he came to Oropus in Attica, where an ancient prophet is worshiped as a god, and there is an old temple, beautiful with surrounding springs and streams; thence to Athens, which, though itself also full of ancient fame, yet had many things to be seen: the citadel, the harbors, the walls joining Piraeus to the city, the shipyards, the monuments of great commanders, and the statues of gods and men, remarkable for every kind of material and workmanship.