Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 44
Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

44. When the consul returned victorious to¹ camp, he was prevented from enjoying an unalloyed delight by the sting of worry over his younger son. [2] This was Publius Scipio, who was also called Africanus later after the destruction of Carthage, born son to the consul Paulus and by adoption grandson of Africanus. [3] This son was then in his seventeenth year, a fact which in itself increased the anxiety for him, and had been carried away in another direction by a crowd while in hot pursuit of the enemy. When he returned very late, then at last on the safe recovery of his son the consul felt the joy of so great a victory.²

[4] At Amphipolis the news of the battle had by now arrived; there was a gathering of the matrons in the temple of Diana whom they call Tauropolos, to pray for help. Diodorus, who was in charge of the city, feared that the Thracians, two thousand of whom were in the garrison, would plunder the city during the confusion. Hence he craftily hired a man to play the part of dispatch bearer, from whom he received papers in the middle of the market place. [5] The message in these despatches was that the Roman fleet had put in at Emathia³ and was harassing the surrounding countryside, and that the officers in charge of Emathia requested him to send a force against the ravagers. [6] After reading this, he urged the Thracians to start out to defend the coast of Emathia, telling them that they would cause great slaughter and get great booty among the Romans scattered all over the fields. [7] At the same time he minimized the report of the loss of a battle; if this were true, he said, man after man would have been arriving direct from the rout. [8] Having got rid of [p. 237]the Thracians on this pretext, he barred the gates as⁴ soon as he saw that they had crossed the Strymon.