Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 43
Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

21. Lucius Coelius, a Roman staff-officer,¹ was in charge of Illyricum; he had not dared to stir while the king was in those parts, but after his departure at last attempted in the Penestian country to retake Uscana, and, being driven back with many wounded by the Macedonian garrison which was there, led his forces back to Lychnidus. [2] Thence after a few days he sent Marcus Trebellius of Fregellae with a strong enough detachment among the Penestae to receive hostages from those cities which had remained loyal to the alliance; he ordered Trebellius to proceed also to the Parthini,² for they had likewise promised to give hostages. [3] From both peoples Trebellius exacted the hostages without disturbance. The knights of the Penestae were sent to Apollonia, those of the Parthini to Dyrrachium —at that time the name Epidamnus was more generally in use among the Greeks.³ [4] Appius Claudius, eager to atone for the disgrace he had received in Illyricum,⁴ attempted to besiege Phanote, a fort of Epirus. He took with him auxiliaries from the Chaonians⁵ and The sprotians, besides his Roman army, a total of about six [p. 77]thousand men; he did not accomplish anything⁶ worth his trouble, since Cleuas, who had been left by Perseus, was defending it with a strong garrison. [5] Perseus also, setting out for Elimea,⁷ and purifying his army in that neighbourhood, led his force, at the invitation of the Epirotes,⁸ to Stratus. [6] Stratus was at that time the strongest city of Aetolia; it is situated inland from the Ambracian Gulf near the River Inachus.⁹ Perseus set out thither with ten thousand infantry and three handred cavalry, a smaller number of which¹⁰ he took with him because of the narrowness and roughness of the roads. [7] When on the third day he had arrived at Mount Citium, the snow was so deep that he barely succeeded incrossing and had difficulty also in finding a place for his camp. [8] Setting out thence, more because he could not stay than because either the way or the weather was bearable, with great suffering, especially of the baggage-animals, on the second day he pitched camp at the temple of Jupiter whom they call the Victorious.¹¹ Thence having traversed a huge march to the Aratthus River, he halted . . . delayed by the depth of the river. [9] In this length of time a bridge was finished, and, leading his troops across, he proceeded one day's march and effected a meeting with [p. 79]Archidamus, a prominent Aetolian, who was trying¹² to hand over Stratus to him.¹³