Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 37
Evan T. Sage, PhD professor of latin and head of the department of classics in the University of Pittsburgh, Ed.

9. Meanwhile an uprising began at Phocaea when certain persons tried to draw away the sympathies of the crowd to Antiochus. [2] The quartering of the ships was a burden, the tribute was a burden, since five hundred outer-garments with five hundred under-garments had been demanded of them; [3] the shortage of grain was another burden, on account of which the fleet too and the Roman garrison departed. [4] Then indeed the faction which was trying to win the people over to Antiochus in their public meetings was freed from fear; the senate and the nobility thought that they should persist in the Roman alliance; the party which urged revolt was stronger with the mass of the people. [5] The Rhodians, the greater their delay the preceding summer, the earlier now, namely, at the spring equinox, placed the same Pausistratus in charge of the fleet and despatched him with thirty-six ships. [6] Already Livius from Canae, with his own thirty ships and seven quadriremes which King Eumenes had brought with him, was on his way to the Hellespont, that he might make everything ready for the crossing of the army, which, he thought, would come by land. [7] He first [p. 317]brought the ships into what they call the harbour of¹ the Achaeans,² thence he went up to Ilium, and after sacrificing to Minerva gave a gracious audience to embassies from Elaeus and Dardanus and Rhoeteum offering to entrust their cities to his good faith. [8] Thence he sailed to the entrance to the Hellespont, and leaving ten ships on guard off Abydus crossed with the rest of the fleet to lay siege to Sestus. [9] When the soldiers were already approaching the walls, some fanatical Galli³ with their ritual dress first met them before the gate; they said that by the order of the Mother of the Gods they, the servants of the goddess, were coming to implore the Romans to spare the walls and the city. [10] None of them was injured. Presently the whole senate with the magistrates came to surrender the city. Then the fleet crossed to Abydus. [11] After trying their disposition in conferences and receiving no pacific reply, they prepared for a siege.