Book fragments
65b
Seeing that the Carthaginians had obeyed all injunctions in the most honourable spirit.
66
To have fifty ships built entirely new, and to launch fifty of those already existing from the docks.
67
Lucius being appointed to go on a mission to the Lapateni and speak to them in favour of an unconditional surrender, was unprepared for the task before him.
68
Of all the determining forces in war the most decisive of failure or success is the spirit of the combatants.
69
Having mentioned summarily the defeats they had sustained, and putting before them the successes of the Macedonians.
70
For he perceived that the Macedonian kingdom would become contemptible, if the rebels succeeded in their first attempt.
71
Therefore it was intolerable that the Romans even then should make their way into Macedonia unobserved.
72
He, if any one of our time has done so, has examined all that has been said scientifically on tactics.
73
Metrodorus and his colleagues, frightened at the threatening aspect of Philip, departed.
74
The Romans made no show of bearing a grudge for what had taken place.
75
But putting both spurs to his horse he rode on as hard as he could.
76
Being annoyed at the treaty, Nabis paid no attention to its provisions.
77
It was neither possible to examine the man closely in his state of physical weakness, nor to put a question to him for fear of worrying him.
78
The Pannonians having seized the fort at the beginning of the war, had taken it as a base of operations, and had fitted it up for the reception of booty.
79
But wishing to point the contrast between his policy to those who trusted and those who disobeyed him, he commenced the siege.
80
So that those in the assembly were thunderstruck and unable to collect their thoughts, sympathising with the poignant sorrow of those thus dispossessed of their all.
81
They immediately sent a courier to Perseus to tell him what had happened. (132) It was Perseus’s design to keep it close, but he could not hide the truth.
