Polybius, Histories

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Book 18 - Chapter 16

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<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="basileu%5Cs">βασιλεὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Fattalos">Ἄτταλος</w> <w lemma="e%29tima%3Dto">ἐτιμᾶτο</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fteron">πρότερον</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2Asikuwni%2Fwn">Σικυωνίων</w> <w lemma="po%2Flews">πόλεως</w> <w lemma="diafero%2Fntws">διαφερόντως</w>, <w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="ou%28%3D">οὗ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="i%28era%5Cn">ἱερὰν</w> <w lemma="xw%2Fran">χώραν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29apo%2Fllwnos">Ἀπόλλωνος</w> <w lemma="e%29lutrw%2Fsato">ἐλυτρώσατο</w> <w lemma="xrhma%2Ftwn">χρημάτων</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%3Ds">αὐτοῖς</w> <w lemma="ou%29k">οὐκ</w> <w lemma="o%29li%2Fgwn">ὀλίγων</w>,
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<w lemma="a%29nq%27">ἀνθ᾽</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="kolosso%5Cn">κολοσσὸν</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="deka%2Fphxun">δεκάπηχυν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fsthsan">ἔστησαν</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29apo%2Fllwna">Ἀπόλλωνα</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29gora%2Fn">ἀγοράν</w>.
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<w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Flin">πάλιν</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="de%2Fka">δέκα</w> <w lemma="ta%2Flanta">τάλαντα</w> <w lemma="do%2Fntos">δόντος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="muri%2Fous">μυρίους</w> <w lemma="medi%2Fmnous">μεδίμνους</w> <w lemma="purw%3Dn">πυρῶν</w>, <w lemma="pollaplasi%2Fws">πολλαπλασίως</w> <w lemma="e%29pitaqe%2Fntes">ἐπιταθέντες</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="eu%29noi%2Fais">εὐνοίαις</w> <w lemma="ei%29ko%2Fna">εἰκόνα</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="xrush%3Dn">χρυσῆν</w> <w lemma="e%29yhfi%2Fsanto">ἐψηφίσαντο</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="qusi%2Fan">θυσίαν</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w> <w lemma="suntelei%3Dn">συντελεῖν</w> <w lemma="kat%27">κατ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ftos">ἔτος</w> <w lemma="e%29nomoqe%2Fthsan">ἐνομοθέτησαν</w>.
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<w lemma="%2A%29%2Fattalos">Ἄτταλος</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="tuxw%5Cn">τυχὼν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="timw%3Dn">τιμῶν</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w> <w lemma="a%29ph%3Dren">ἀπῆρεν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="%2Akegxrea%2Fs">Κεγχρεάς</w>. —
<head>Attalus at Sicyon</head>King Attalus had received exceptional honours on a former occasion also from the Sicyonians after he had ransomed for them at considerable expense the land consecrated to Apollo,
in return for which they set up a colossal statue of him ten cubits high, next that of Apollo in their market-place.
And now again, upon his giving them ten talents and ten thousand medimni of wheat, his popularity increased fourfold, and they voted his portrait in gold and passed a law enjoining the performance of an annual sacrifice to him.
Attalus, then, having received these honours left for Cenchreae.