13.
There was at this place a venerable shrine of Apollo and an oracle; the priests, it is said, give the responses in verses not without polish.
[2]
On the second day's march from here they came to the Harpasus river, where ambassadors from Alabanda came with the request that he would compel, either by authority or by armed force, a stronghold which had recently revolted from them to accept its ancient status.
[3]
There also came Athenaeus, the brother of Eumenes and Attalus, with Leusus the Cretan and Corragus the Macedonian; they brought with them a thousand infantry of different nationalities and three hundred cavalry. The consul, sending a tribune of the soldiers with a force of moderate size, took the stronghold by storm and having captured it turned it over to the people of Alabanda.
[4]
He himself, not leaving the direct road, pitched camp at Antiochia on the Meander river. The sources of this river spring from Celaenae. The city of Celaenae was once the capital of Phrygia; thence there was a migration to a place not far from old Celaenae, and to the new town was given the name of Apamea, from Apama, the sister of King Seleucus.1
[5]
The Marsyas river also, rising not far from the sources of the. Meander, empties into the Meander, and the story runs thus, that at Celaenae Marsyas contended with Apollo in playing on the pipes.2
[6]
The Meander, rising on top of the citadel of Celaenae and flowing through the centre [p. 43]of the city, then first through Carian and later3 Ionian territory, empties into the gulf of the sea which lies between Prienê and Miletus. At Antiochia, Seleucus, the son of Antiochus, came to the consul's camp to furnish the grain to the army in accordance with the treaty4 made with Scipio.
[7]
There was a short argument regarding the auxiliaries of Attalus, since Seleucus maintained that Antiochus had bargained to supply grain to the Roman soldiers only.
[8]
This too was ended by the firmness of the consul, who sent a tribune with the order that no Roman soldiers should receive any grain until the auxiliaries of Attalus should have had their share. Thence he marched to the place called Gordiutichi.5 From there they came on the third march to Tabae. The city lies on the borders of the Pisidians, on the side which faces the Pamphylian sea. Since the strength of the region was unimpaired, its men were fierce
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in warfare. At this time too the cavalry, charging the Roman column, threw it at first into no small degree of confusion; then, when it became evident that they were equal in neither numbers nor courage, when driven back into the town they begged pardon for their mistake and were ready to surrender the city. The consul exacted of them twenty-five talents [p. 45]of silver and ten thousand
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medimni6 of wheat; on7 these terms they were received in surrender.
1 Apama was actually the wife, not the sister, of Seleucus.
2 Cf. the similar statements of Xenophon (Anab. I. ii. 7-8).
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4 The provisions of the treaty as given by Livy (XXXVII. xlv; cf. Iv) say nothing of any such obligation, nor does Polybius mention it. In xxxvii. 7 below Livy again speaks of grain (and now money) owed under the treaty. It may have been taken for granted that Antiochus owed supplies to the Romans until the treaty was formally ratified.
5 Many of the place-names in the following sections are doubtful, some [9] by reason of corruptions in the text, some, probably, because Livy did not understand his sources, while others are not mentioned elsewhere. I have been content in general to repeat the [10] names as they are found in the Latin text I have followed, realizing that beyond question many of them are wrong.
The route of the Romans can be followed more easily on the map than through notes. As one traces their course one wonders whether their dominating motive, in selecting the line of [11] march, was the topography of the country, the desire to come to grips with the Galatians as soon as possible, or the profits which quickly began to come in. (See Map 3.)6 Livy generally uses the Latin term modius in reference to quantities of grain (XXXI. xix. 2, etc.); here he more appropriately uses the Greek measure. The medimnus was the approximate equivalent of six modii.
7 B.C. 189
Livy. Books XXXVIII-XXXIX with an English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936: published without copyright notice.
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