§45.28.1sacrificio Minervae, praesidi arcis, in urbe facto profectus Corinthum altero die pervenit.
After offering a sacrifice in the city to Minerva, the guardian of the citadel, he set out and arrived at Corinth on the second day.
§45.28.2urbs erat tunc praeclara ante excidium; arx quoque et Isthmus praebuere spectaculum: arx intra moenia in immanem altitudinem edita, scatens fontibus; Isthmus duo maria ab occasu et ortu solis finitima artis faucibus dirimens.
The city was then famous, before its destruction; the citadel also and the Isthmus offered a spectacle: the citadel, rising to a vast height within the walls, gushing with springs; the Isthmus, dividing two neighboring seas from the setting and the rising of the sun by a narrow neck of land.
§45.28.3Sicyonem inde et Argos, nobiles urbes, adit; inde haud parem opibus Epidaurum, sed inclutam Aesculapi nobili templo, quod quinque milibus passuum ab urbe distans nunc vestigiis revolsorum donorum, tum donis dives erat, quae remediorum salutarium aegri mercedem sacraverant deo.
Thence he visited Sicyon and Argos, famous cities; thence Epidaurus, not equal in wealth, but famous for the noble temple of Aesculapius, which, situated five miles from the city, is now rich only in the traces of torn-away gifts, but was then rich in gifts which the sick had consecrated to the god as a reward for healing remedies.
§45.28.4inde Lacedaemonem adit, non operum magnificentia, sed disciplina institutisque memorabilem; unde per Megalopolim Olympiam escendit.
Thence he visited Lacedaemon, memorable not for the magnificence of its buildings, but for its discipline and institutions; whence, through Megalopolis, he went up to Olympia.
§45.28.5ubi et alia quidem spectanda ei visa: Iovem velut praesentem intuens motus animo est.
Where indeed other things also seemed to him worth seeing; but beholding Jupiter as if present, he was moved in his soul.
itaque haud secus, quam si in Capitolio immolaturus esset, sacrificium amplius solito apparari iussit.
Therefore, just as if he were about to offer sacrifice on the Capitol, he ordered a sacrifice larger than usual to be prepared.
§45.28.6ita peragrata Graecia, ut nihil eorum, quae quisque Persei bello privatim aut publice sensisset, inquireret, ne cuius metu sollicitaret animos sociorum, Demetriadem cum comitatu revertit.
Having thus traversed Greece, in such a way that he inquired into none of those things which anyone had felt privately or publicly during the war with Perseus, lest he should disturb the minds of the allies by the fear of anyone, he returned to Demetrias with his retinue.
in itinere sordidata turba Aetolorum occurrit; §45.28.7mirantique et percunctanti, quid esset, defertur quingentos quinquaginta principes ab Lycisco et Tisippo, circumsesso senatu per milites Romanos, missos ab A. Baebio, praefecto praesidii, interfectos, alios in exilium actos esse, bonaque eorum, qui interfecti essent, et exulum possideri.
On the journey, a crowd of Aetolians in mourning attire met him; and to him, wondering and inquiring what it was, it was reported that five hundred and fifty leading men had been killed by Lyciscus and Tisippus, the senate having been surrounded by Roman soldiers sent by Aulus Baebius, the commander of the garrison, and that others had been driven into exile, and that the goods of those who had been killed and of the exiles were being possessed.
§45.28.8iussis, qui arguebantur, Amphipoli adesse ipse convento Cn. Octavio Demetriade, postquam fama accidit traiecisse iam mare decem legatos, omnibus aliis omissis Apolloniam ad eos pergit.
Having ordered those who were accused to be present at Amphipolis, and having himself met Gnaeus Octavius at Demetrias, after the report reached him that the ten commissioners had already crossed the sea, he set out for Apollonia to meet them, putting aside all other things.
§45.28.9quo cum Perseus obviam Amphipoli omni solutus custodia processisset — id diei iter est —, ipsum quidem benigne adlocutus est; ceterum postquam in castra ad Amphipolim venit, graviter increpuisse traditur C. Sulpicium, §45.28.10primum quod Persea tam procul a se vagari per provinciam passus esset, deinde quod adeo indulsisset militibus, ut nudare tegulis muros urbis ad tegenda hibernacula sua pateretur; §45.28.11referrique tegulas et refici detecta, sicut fuerant, iussit.
When Perseus had come thither from Amphipolis to meet him, freed from all custody—it is a day's journey—he indeed addressed him kindly; but after he came into the camp at Amphipolis, he is said to have severely rebuked Gaius Sulpicius, first, because he had allowed Perseus to wander so far from him through the province; secondly, because he had so far indulged the soldiers as to permit them to strip the walls of the city of their tiles to cover their winter quarters; and he ordered the tiles to be brought back and the uncovered places to be repaired as they had been.
et Persea quidam cum maiore filio Philippo traditos A. Postumio in custodiam misit; filiam cum minore filio a Samothrace accitos Amphipolim omni liberali cultu habuit.
And Perseus indeed, with his elder son Philip, having been handed over to Aulus Postumius, he sent into custody; his daughter, with his younger son, summoned from Samothrace to Amphipolis, he treated with every liberal care.