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Book 22 - Chapter 8

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<w lemma="kate%2Fpausan">κατέπαυσαν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgon">λόγον</w>. <w lemma="meq%27">μεθ᾽</w> <w lemma="ou%28%5Cs">οὓς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29apollwni%2Fdas">Ἀπολλωνίδας</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Asikuw%2Fnios">Σικυώνιος</w> <w lemma="a%29nasta%5Cs">ἀναστὰς</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="plh%3Dqos">πλῆθος</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="didome%2Fnwn">διδομένων</w> <w lemma="xrhma%2Ftwn">χρημάτων</w> <w lemma="a%29ci%2Fan">ἀξίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ffh">ἔφη</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="dwrea%5Cn">δωρεὰν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w>, <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="proai%2Fresin">προαίρεσιν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="dido%2Fntos">διδόντος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="xrei%2Fan">χρείαν</w>,
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<w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="h%28%5Cn">ἣν</w> <w lemma="di%2Fdotai">δίδοται</w>, <w lemma="pasw%3Dn">πασῶν</w> <w lemma="ai%29sxi%2Fsthn">αἰσχίστην</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paranomwta%2Fthn">παρανομωτάτην</w>.
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<w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="no%2Fmwn">νόμων</w> <w lemma="kwluo%2Fntwn">κωλυόντων</w> <w lemma="mhqe%2Fna">μηθένα</w> <w lemma="mh%2Fte">μήτε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="i%29diwtw%3Dn">ἰδιωτῶν</w> <w lemma="mh%2Fte">μήτε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxo%2Fntwn">ἀρχόντων</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="dw%3Dra">δῶρα</w> <w lemma="lamba%2Fnein">λαμβάνειν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="mhd%27">μηδ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28poi%2Fan">ὁποίαν</w> <w lemma="pro%2Ffasin">πρόφασιν</w>, <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="dwrodokei%3Dsqai">δωροδοκεῖσθαι</w> <w lemma="profanw%3Ds">προφανῶς</w>, <w lemma="prosdecame%2Fnous">προσδεξαμένους</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="xrh%2Fmata">χρήματα</w>, <w lemma="pa%2Fntwn">πάντων</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dnai">εἶναι</w> <w lemma="paranomw%2Ftaton">παρανομώτατον</w>, <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="ai%29%2Fsxiston">αἴσχιστον</w> <w lemma="o%28mologoume%2Fnws">ὁμολογουμένως</w>.
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<w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="o%29ywnia%2Fzesqai">ὀψωνιάζεσθαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="boulh%5Cn">βουλὴν</w> <w lemma="u%28p%27">ὑπ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnous">Εὐμένους</w> <w lemma="kaq%27">καθ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%28%2Fkaston">ἕκαστον</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ftos">ἔτος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="bouleu%2Fesqai">βουλεύεσθαι</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="koinw%3Dn">κοινῶν</w> <w lemma="katapepwko%2Ftas">καταπεπωκότας</w> <w lemma="oi%28onei%5C">οἱονεὶ</w> <w lemma="de%2Flear">δέλεαρ</w>, <w lemma="pro%2Fdhlon">πρόδηλον</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxein">ἔχειν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="ai%29sxu%2Fnhn">αἰσχύνην</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="bla%2Fbhn">βλάβην</w>.
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<w lemma="nu%3Dn">νῦν</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="dido%2Fnai">διδόναι</w> <w lemma="xrh%2Fmata">χρήματα</w>, <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fan">Προυσίαν</w> <w lemma="dw%2Fsein">δώσειν</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Flin">πάλιν</w> <w lemma="%2Ase%2Fleukon">Σέλευκον</w>.
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<w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="pragma%2Ftwn">πραγμάτων</w> <w lemma="e%29nanti%2Fan">ἐναντίαν</w> <w lemma="fu%2Fsin">φύσιν</w> <w lemma="e%29xo%2Fntwn">ἐχόντων</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="basileu%3Dsi">βασιλεῦσι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="dhmokrati%2Fais">δημοκρατίαις</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="plei%2Fstwn">πλείστων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="megi%2Fstwn">μεγίστων</w> <w lemma="diabouli%2Fwn">διαβουλίων</w> <w lemma="ai%29ei%5C">αἰεὶ</w> <w lemma="ginome%2Fnwn">γινομένων</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="basilei%3Ds">βασιλεῖς</w> <w lemma="h%28mi%3Dn">ἡμῖν</w> <w lemma="diafero%2Fntwn">διαφερόντων</w>,
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<w lemma="fanerw%3Ds">φανερῶς</w> <w lemma="a%29na%2Fgkh">ἀνάγκη</w> <w lemma="duei%3Dn">δυεῖν</w> <w lemma="qa%2Fteron">θάτερον</w> <w lemma="h%29%5C">ἢ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fwn">βασιλέων</w> <w lemma="lusitele%5Cs">λυσιτελὲς</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%2Fprosqen">ἐπίπροσθεν</w> <w lemma="gi%2Fnesqai">γίνεσθαι</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="kat%27">κατ᾽</w> <w lemma="i%29di%2Fan">ἰδίαν</w> <w lemma="sumfe%2Frontos">συμφέροντος</w> <w lemma="h%29%5C">ἢ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftou">τούτου</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="sumbai%2Fnontos">συμβαίνοντος</w> <w lemma="a%29xari%2Fstous">ἀχαρίστους</w> <w lemma="fai%2Fnesqai">φαίνεσθαι</w> <w lemma="pa%3Dsin">πᾶσιν</w>, <w lemma="a%29ntipra%2Fttontas">ἀντιπράττοντας</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3Dn">αὑτῶν</w> <w lemma="misqodo%2Ftais">μισθοδόταις</w>.
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<w lemma="dio%5C">διὸ</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="mo%2Fnon">μόνον</w> <w lemma="a%29pei%2Fpasqai">ἀπείπασθαι</w> <w lemma="pareka%2Flei">παρεκάλει</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiou%2Fs">Ἀχαιούς</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="misei%3Dn">μισεῖν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%2Fnoian">ἐπίνοιαν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="do%2Fsews">δόσεως</w>.
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<w lemma=""></w> <w lemma="%2Ameta%5C">Μετὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dton">τοῦτον</w> <w lemma="a%29nasta%5Cs">ἀναστὰς</w> <w lemma="%2Aka%2Fssandros">Κάσσανδρος</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29ginh%2Fths">Αἰγινήτης</w> <w lemma="a%29ne%2Fmnhse">ἀνέμνησε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiou%5Cs">Ἀχαιοὺς</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29ginhtw%3Dn">Αἰγινητῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29klhri%2Fas">ἀκληρίας</w>, <w lemma="h%28%3D%7C">ᾗ</w> <w lemma="perie%2Fpeson">περιέπεσον</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="sumpoliteu%2Fesqai">συμπολιτεύεσθαι</w>, <w lemma="o%28%2Fte">ὅτε</w> <w lemma="%2Apo%2Fplios">Πόπλιος</w> <w lemma="%2Asolpi%2Fkios">Σολπίκιος</w> <w lemma="e%29pipleu%2Fsas">ἐπιπλεύσας</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="sto%2Flw%7C">στόλῳ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="e%29chndrapodi%2Fsato">ἐξηνδραποδίσατο</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="talaipw%2Frous">ταλαιπώρους</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29ginh%2Ftas:">Αἰγινήτας·</w>
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<w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="diesafh%2Fsamen">διεσαφήσαμεν</w>, <w lemma="ti%2Fna">τίνα</w> <w lemma="tro%2Fpon">τρόπον</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29twloi%2F">Αἰτωλοί</w>, <w lemma="ku%2Frioi">κύριοι</w> <w lemma="geno%2Fmenoi">γενόμενοι</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="po%2Flews">πόλεως</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fous">Ῥωμαίους</w> <w lemma="sunqh%2Fkas">συνθήκας</w>, <w lemma="%2A%29atta%2Flw%7C">Ἀττάλῳ</w> <w lemma="paradoi%3Den">παραδοῖεν</w>, <w lemma="tria%2Fkonta">τριάκοντα</w> <w lemma="ta%2Flanta">τάλαντα</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="labo%2Fntes">λαβόντες</w>.
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<w lemma="tau%3Dt%27">ταῦτ᾽</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="tiqei%5Cs">τιθεὶς</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w> <w lemma="pro%5C">πρὸ</w> <w lemma="o%29fqalmw%3Dn">ὀφθαλμῶν</w> <w lemma="h%29ci%2Fou">ἠξίου</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="dia%2Ffora">διάφορα</w> <w lemma="protei%2Fnonta">προτείνοντα</w> <w lemma="qhreu%2Fein">θηρεύειν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="eu%29%2Fnoian">εὔνοιαν</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="po%2Flin">πόλιν</w> <w lemma="a%29podido%2Fnta">ἀποδιδόντα</w> <w lemma="tugxa%2Fnein">τυγχάνειν</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntwn">πάντων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="filanqrw%2Fpwn">φιλανθρώπων</w> <w lemma="a%29nantirrh%2Ftws">ἀναντιρρήτως</w>.
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<w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiou%5Cs">Ἀχαιοὺς</w> <w lemma="pareka%2Flei">παρεκάλει</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="de%2Fxesqai">δέχεσθαι</w> <w lemma="toiau%2Ftas">τοιαύτας</w> <w lemma="dwrea%2Fs">δωρεάς</w>, <w lemma="di%27">δι᾽</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="fanh%2Fsontai">φανήσονται</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="me%2Fllon">μέλλον</w> <w lemma="e%29lpi%2Fdas">ἐλπίδας</w> <w lemma="a%29fairou%2Fmenoi">ἀφαιρούμενοι</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29ginhtw%3Dn">Αἰγινητῶν</w> <w lemma="swthri%2Fas">σωτηρίας</w>. <w lemma="%2Atoiou%2Ftwn">Τοιούτων</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="genome%2Fnwn">γενομένων</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgwn">λόγων</w>,
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<w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="tosou%3Dton">τοσοῦτον</w> <w lemma="pare%2Fsth">παρέστη</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="plh%3Dqos">πλῆθος</w> <w lemma="w%28%2Fste">ὥστε</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="tolmh%3Dsai">τολμῆσαι</w> <w lemma="mhqe%2Fna">μηθένα</w> <w lemma="suneipei%3Dn">συνειπεῖν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="basilei%3D">βασιλεῖ</w>, <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="kraugh%3Ds">κραυγῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29kbalei%3Dn">ἐκβαλεῖν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="proteinome%2Fnhn">προτεινομένην</w> <w lemma="dwrea%2Fn">δωρεάν</w>, <w lemma="kai%2Ftoi">καίτοι</w> <w lemma="dokou%2Fshs">δοκούσης</w> <w lemma="au%29th%3Ds">αὐτῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxein">ἔχειν</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="dusantofqa%2Flmhton">δυσαντοφθάλμητον</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="plh%3Dqos">πλῆθος</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="proteinome%2Fnwn">προτεινομένων</w> <w lemma="xrhma%2Ftwn">χρημάτων</w>.
After their withdrawal Apollonidas of Sicyon rose. He said that sum offered by Eumenes was a gift not unworthy of the Achaeans' acceptance,
but that the intention of the giver and the purpose to which it was to be applied were as disgraceful and illegal as could be.
For, as it was forbidden by law for any private person or magistrate to receive gifts, on no matter what pretext, from a king, that all should be openly bribed by accepting this money was the most illegal thing conceivable, besides being confessedly the most disgraceful.
For that the parliament should be in Eumenes' pay every year, and discuss public affairs after swallowing a bait, so to speak, would evidently involve disgrace and hurt.
Now it was Eumenes who was giving them money; next time it would be Prusias, and after that Seleucus.
"And," he said, "as the interests of democracies and kings are naturally opposed, and most debates and the most important deal with out differences with the kings,
it is evident that perforce one or the other thing will happen: either the interests of the kings will take precedence of our own; or, if this is not so, we shall appear to every one to be ungrateful in acting against our paymasters."
So he exhorted the Achaeans not only to refuse the gift, but to detest Eumenes for his purpose in offering it.
The next speaker was Cassander of Aegina, who reminded the Achaeans of the destitution which had overtaken the Aeginetans owing to their being members of the League at the time when Publius Sulpicius Galba had attacked Aegina with his fleet and sold into slavery all its unhappy inhabitants;
and how, as I have narrated in a previous book, the Aetolians gained possession of the town by their treaty with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, and handed it over to Attalus on receipt of thirty talents.
Laying this before the eyes of the Achaeans, he begged Eumenes not to fish for the good offices of the Achaeans by making advantageous offers, but by giving up the city of Aegina, to secure without a dissentient voice their complete devotion.
He exhorted the Achaeans at the same time not to accept a gift which would clearly involve their depriving the Aeginetans of all hope of deliverance in the future.
In consequence of these speeches the people were so deeply moved that not a soul ventured to take the part of the king, but all with loud shouts rejected the proffered gift, although owing to the greatness of the sum the temptation seemed almost irresistible.