Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 38
Evan T. Sage, Ph.D., Ed.

45. They said that the commissioners had been assigned to Gnaeus Manlius¹ for the purpose of making peace with Antiochus and of putting into final form the terms of the treaty which had been initiated by Lucius Scipio. [2] Gnaeus Manlius, they said, had striven with all his might to break the peace and to take Antiochus by treachery, if the king should have given him any opportunity to do so; but he, being aware of the deceitfulness of the consul, although often approached with requests for conferences, had [p. 155]avoided, not merely a meeting with him, but even the² sight of him.³ [3] Manlius, they said, when he desired to cross the Taurus,⁴ had with difficulty been held back by the pleas of all his lieutenants from trying to test the prediction of ruin found in the verses of the Sibyl⁵ for those who crossed the fateful boundaries, but, none the less, had [4??] moved up the army and encamped near by on the very crest at the parting of the waters. [5] Finding no pretext for war there, the king's forces remaining passive, he led the army around against the Galatians, a people against whom war had not been declared by the authority of the senate or the vote of the assembly.⁶ [6] Who, they asked, had ever ventured to do this on his own motion? The most recent wars were those with Antiochus, Philip, Hannibal and the Carthaginians; in all these cases the senate had passed decrees, the assembly had voted, restitution had previously been demanded by ambassadors, finally, delegates had been sent to declare war.⁷ [7] "Which of these things was done, Gnaeus Manlius, so that we can consider this a public war of the Roman people and not a private piratical expedition of your own? [8] Were you even content with that and did you lead your army directly against those whom you had picked out to be your enemies? [9] Or, moving by all the roundabout ways, stopping at [p. 157]every cross-road, that, wherever Attalus, the brother⁸ of Eumenes, turned his course, there you, a money-seeking consul, might follow with a Roman army, did you travel over all the nooks and corners of Pisidia and Lycaonia and Phrygia, exacting tribute from tyrants and commanders of out-of-the-way fortresses? What business did you have with the people of Oroanda? What with other equally innocent peoples?

"But the war proper, on account of which you ask a triumph, how did you conduct it? [10] Did you fight on favourable ground, at a time selected by you? [11] Rightly in truth do you demand that honour be paid to the immortal gods, first, because they refused to exact the penalty from the army for the rashness of the commander, who was waging war under no law of nations; second, because they confronted us with dumb animals, not enemies.