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Ἑλληνική Transliterate
Ἑλληνική Transliterate
With such an encouragement of the soldiers having been made , the fleet is lead into battle on both sides . With a battle line of them having been drawn up , before the sign of battle was given , Hannibal , so that he would make it clear to his guys in what spot Eumenes was , sent a messenger in a small ship with a caduceus . When he arrived at the ships of the enemies , and pointing out a letter , has professed that he was seeking the king , immediately he has been led to Eumenes , because no one doubts that anything of peace had been written . The messenger , with the ship of the leader having been declared to his own guys , took himself back to the same place from where he had gone out . But Eumenes , with the letter having been opened , found nothing in it except things which pertained to mocking him . Although he was marveling at its cause and did not find [ anything ] , nevertheless he did not doubt to engage in battle immediately .
All the Bithynians , because of the order of Hannibal , were attacking the ship of Eumenes in their charge . When the king was not able to withstand their force , he sought safety by flight . When the remaining Pergamon ships were pressing the enemies more harshly , suddenly clay jars , of which we made mention above , have begun to be thrown into them . These things having been throw in the beginning stirred up laughter for the ones fighting , and it was not able to be understood why this was happening . However , after they saw that their ships had been filled up with snakes , terrified by the new circumstance , they turned their ships and took themselves back to their naval camps . Thus Hannibal conquered the arms of Pergamon with a plan .
Tali cohortatione militum facta classis ab utrisque in proelium deducitur . Quarum acie constituta , priusquam signum pugnae daretur , Hannibal , ut palam faceret suis , quo loco Eumenes esset , tabellarium in scapha cum caduceo mittit . Qui ubi ad naves adversariorum pervenit epistulamque ostendens se regem professus est quaerere , statim ad Eumenem deductus est , quod nemo dubitabat , quin aliquid de pace esset scriptum . Tabellarius ducis nave declarata suis eodem , unde erat egressus , se recepit . At Eumenes soluta epistula nihil in ea repperit , nisi quae ad irridendum eum pertinerent . Cuius etsi causam mirabatur neque reperiebat , tamen proelium statim committere non dubitavit .
Horum in concursu Bithynii Hannibalis praecepto universi navem Eumenis adoriuntur . Quorum vim rex cum sustinere non posset , fuga salutem petit . Reliquae Pergamenae naves cum adversarios premerent acrius , repente in eas vasa fictilia , de quibus supra mentionem fecimus , conici coepta sunt . Quae iacta initio risum pugnantibus concitarunt , neque , quare id fieret , poterat intellegi . Postquam autem naves suas oppletas conspexerunt serpentibus , nova re perterriti , puppes verterunt seque ad sua castra nautica rettulerunt . Sic Hannibal consilio arma Pergamenorum superavit .