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Book 15 - Chapter 37

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<head lang="la">IV. Res Asiae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxos">Ἀντίοχος</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="basileu%5Cs">βασιλεὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29do%2Fkei">ἐδόκει</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="a%29rxa%5Cs">ἀρχὰς</w> <w lemma="gegone%2Fnai">γεγονέναι</w> <w lemma="megalepi%2Fbolos">μεγαλεπίβολος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tolmhro%5Cs">τολμηρὸς</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="proteqe%2Fntos">προτεθέντος</w> <w lemma="e%29cergastiko%2Fs">ἐξεργαστικός</w>,
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<w lemma="probai%2Fnwn">προβαίνων</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="h%28liki%2Fan">ἡλικίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29fa%2Fnh">ἐφάνη</w> <w lemma="polu%5C">πολὺ</w> <w lemma="katadee%2Fsteros">καταδεέστερος</w> <w lemma="au%28tou%3D">αὑτοῦ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29kto%5Cs">ἐκτὸς</w> <w lemma="prosdoki%2Fas">προσδοκίας</w>.
<head>IV. Affairs of Asia</head><head>Character of Antiochus</head>King Antiochus seems to have been at first a man who both conceived great projects and possessed courage and the capability of executing his designs,
but as he advanced in life he showed himself much inferior to his former self and disappointed general expectation.

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<p rend="Plain Text">Antiochus' character</p> <p rend="Plain Text"> This must be from the res Asiae of 203/2; see p. 23. The context cannot be reconstructed with any assurance; but if, as Holleaux suggests (tudes, iii. 320), the first campaign in the Fifth Syrian War took place in 202 and was slow in its progressAntiochus will have taken a year to reach Gazathen P. may here be contrasting his lack of success with his swift advance through Asia. For other possibilities see Schmitt, Antiochos, 235 n. 2. <milestone unit="page" n="496">[496]</milestone> </p>

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