1. Dum rēx Antiochus Chalcide mōrātur, M.' Acīlius cōs. exercitum Larīsā Crannōnem et inde [<> retrō] ad faucēs Thermopylārum dūxit.
2. [= mōns longus] Thermopylārum mediam Graeciam [= disiungit].
3. Acīlius in faucibus Thermopylārum castra posuit adversus Antiochum, quī castra sua duplicī vāllō [= bene mūnīverat].
4. Antiochus Aetōlīs imperāvit ut [= culmina] montium [= occupārent], nē Rōmānī [= parvīs viīs] trānsīrent et castra sua [= circumīrent].
5. Acīlius, aciē [= cōnfertā] fronte īnstrūctā, cōpiās rēgis intrā mūnīmenta pepulit, sed recēdere coāctus esset, [= nisi] Catō [= auxiliō] vēnisset.
6. Catō enim in iugō Callidromī Aetōlōs [<> cautōs] atque sōpītōs oppresserat.
7. Macedonēs abiectīs armīs fūgērunt, et rēx cum paucīs [= nec armātīs nec inermibus] mīlitibus Chalcidem sē recēpit atque inde Ephesum [= trāiēcit].
8. Acīlius, castrīs ad Hēraclēam mōtīs, equō urbem [= circum urbem vectus] est, ut moenia [= intuērētur].
9. Dum urbs quattuor ē partibus oppugnātur, XXIV diēs nocturnus labor [<> nocturnō] [< continuus] est.
10. Mediā nocte oppugnātiōne [<> continuātā], IV vigiliā ā tribus partibus urbem aggressus est, ab ūnā mīlitēs signum exspectābant.
11. Cum iam [= illūcēsceret], signō datō mīlitēs ab eā parte quae dēfēnsōribus carēbat mūrōs integrōs trānscendērunt!
12. L. Cornēlius Scīpiō, Antiochō in Asiā dēvictō, 'Asiātīcus' appellātus frātrī cognōmine [= aequātus] est.
13. Cum L. Scīpiō Asiāticus [= fūrtī pecūniae pūblicae] damnātus esset, Tib. Semprōnius Gracchus tribūnus plēbis [: vetuit].
14. Ob id beneficium ille Cornēliam, fīliam P. Scīpiōnis Āfricānī, .
15. est pars arboris subterrānea sīve pars īnfima montis.