Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 42
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. and Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

56. At about the same time Gaius Lucretius too, the praetor who commanded the ships at Cephallania, ordering his brother Marcus Lucretius to make for Chalcis around Malea with the fleet, himself embarked on a trireme, sailing for the Corinthian Gulf in order to be the first in the field in Boeotia. [2] His voyage was somewhat slow because of his bodily weakness. [3] Marcus Lucretius, on his arrival at Chalcis, hearing that Haliartus was being besieged by Publius Lentulus,¹ sent a messenger [p. 465]to order him in the name of the praetor to depart² from there. [4] The commissioner, who had undertaken this enterprise with the Boeotian young men of the party supporting the Romans, departed from the walls. [5] The raising of this siege gave room for another new siege; for immediately Marcus Lucretius with the naval force, ten thousand men-at-arms, and in addition the two thousand king's men who were under Athenaeus, blockaded Haliartus; and while they were preparing also to assault it, the praetor joined them from Creüsa.³ [6] At about the same time ships from the allies also assembled at Chalcis —two Carthaginian quinqueremes, two triremes from Heraclea on the Euxine, four from Chalcedon, as many from Samos, and also five quadriremes from Rhodes.⁴ These, since there was no naval warfare in any quarter, the praetor sent back to the allies. [7] Quintus Marcius also came to Chalcis with ships, after capturing Alopê in Phthiotis and attacking Larisa which is called Cremastê.⁵

[8] While this was the situation in Boeotia, and Perseus, as has been said above, had his permanent camp at Sycurium, after all the grain had been brought in from the fields round about, he sent a force to devastate the territory of Pherae, thinking that thus he might catch the [9??] Romans drawn a rather long distance from their camp for the purpose of aiding the cities of their allies. [10] When he discovered that they had not stirred at all because of this raid, he divided all the booty at least, only the human beings excepted —it consisted chiefly of all sorts of livestock —among his soldiers for feasting.

[p. 467]