![]() 4 Charging a trihemiolia which was in her path and ramming her with great force in the middle of her hull she stuck fast under the enemy's top bench of oars, the captain being unable to arrest the way she had on her. ![]() 3 Philip's galley with ten banks of oars, which was the flag-ship, fell by a strange chance into the hands of the enemy. 2 Attalus engaged an octoreme and ramming her first and inflicting on her a fatal blow under water, after considerable resistance on the part of the troops on her deck finally sank the ship. 10 The enemy had sixty-five decked warships, including those of the Byzantines, nine trihemioliae, 1 and three triremes.ģ 1 The ship of Attalus began the battle, and all those near it at once charged without orders. undecked ones, and a hundred and fifty galleys and beaked ships, for he had not been able to fit out all the ships which were at Samos. 9 Philip's fleet which took part in the battle consisted of fifty-three decked warships. P7 retired himself with a few light vessels to the islands in the middle of the strait and awaited the result of the battle. 8 Philip, thus anticipated, after signalling to those on his right orders to turn their ships directly towards the enemy and engage him vigorously, 6 They were sailing loose order, since they believed, as I said, that Philip still adhered to his original intention, but nevertheless they attacked him, rowing their hardest, Attalus engaging the right and leading wing of the enemy's fleet and Theophiliscus his left. For Attalus and Theophiliscus, as soon as they saw him putting to sea, at once took the requisite steps. 5 But his calculations proved entirely fallacious. ![]() 4 His great object was to get out to sea suddenly as he believed he would be able to outstrip the enemy and afterwards proceed in safety along the coast to Samos. 2 But as the situation did not admit of much choice he put to sea contrary to the expectation of his adversaries 3 for Attalus had expected that he would continue his mining operations. 9 Zeuxis pretended to do this, but had no intention of giving Philip any real and substantial support of the kind.Ģ 1 Philip, as his siege proved unsuccessful and as the enemy were blockading him with a considerable number of warships, found difficulty in deciding what to do. 8 When he was foiled in this expectation also and reached Hiera Come, he sent a message to Zeuxis, begging him to supply him with corn º and to support him according to the terms of their agreement. P5 first proceeded to Thyatira, and upon leaving that city invaded the plain of Thebe, thinking that that district would afford him plenty of booty. 6 After he had laid waste the Nicephorium where he cut down the holy grove, pulled down the wall enclosing it and dug up the temples, which were numerous and splendid, from their foundations, 7 he 5 For he not only burnt and pulled down temples and altars, but even broke up the stones so that none of the things he destroyed could ever be repaired. But as he got little booty from the country owing to the care Attalus had taken to prevent this, he henceforth wreaked his fury on the statues and sanctuaries of the gods, outraging, in my opinion, not Attalus but rather himself. 3 In the skirmishes which took place the garrison of Pergamon easily kept him at a distance owing to the strength of the town. 2 For yielding to anger little less than insane he spent most of his fury not on men but on the gods. 1 1 King Philip, on reaching Pergamon and thinking he had almost given a death-blow to Attalus, showed himself capable of every kind of outrage.
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