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Book 23 - Chapter 6

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<head lang="la">II. Res Graeciae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%5Cs">αὐτοὺς</w> <w lemma="kairou%5Cs">καιροὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29capesta%2Flhsan">ἐξαπεστάλησαν</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedai%2Fmonos">Λακεδαίμονος</w> <w lemma="fuga%2Fdwn">φυγάδων</w> <w lemma="pre%2Fsbeis">πρέσβεις</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w>, <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="oi%28%3Ds">οἷς</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29arkesi%2Flaos">Ἀρκεσίλαος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aghsi%2Fpolis">Ἀγησίπολις</w>, <w lemma="o%28%5Cs">ὃς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fti">ἔτι</w> <w lemma="pai%3Ds">παῖς</w> <w lemma="w%29%5Cn">ὢν</w> <w lemma="e%29genh%2Fqh">ἐγενήθη</w> <w lemma="basileu%5Cs">βασιλεὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="%2Aspa%2Frth%7C">Σπάρτῃ</w>.
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<w lemma="tou%2Ftous">τούτους</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="lh%7Cstai%2F">λῃσταί</w> <w lemma="tines">τινες</w> <w lemma="peripeso%2Fntes">περιπεσόντες</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="pela%2Fgei">πελάγει</w> <w lemma="die%2Ffqeiran">διέφθειραν</w>,
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<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w> <w lemma="katastaqe%2Fntes">κατασταθέντες</w> <w lemma="diekomi%2Fsqhsan">διεκομίσθησαν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w>.
<head>II. Affairs of Greece</head><head>The Spartan Envoys</head>At the same time envoys were sent by the Lacedaemonian exiles to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, among them being Arcesilaus and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Agesipolis&groupId=302&placeId=594">Agesipolis</a>, who as a boy had been king of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>.
They were both caught and murdered at sea by some pirates,
but their colleagues were conveyed to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.

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Overview
23.6.1 - 23.6.3
<p rend="Plain Text">Spartan envoys murdered on the way to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> (183)</p> <p rend="Plain Text">This passage from the exc. de legat. gent. belongs to res Graeciae of Ol. 149. 1 = 184/3: see p. 15.</p>
Specifics
23.6.1 - 23.6.1
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς καιρούς</w>:</emph> if it is not the excerptor's (cf. xxii. 6. 1), the reference of this phrase is obscure; but since the exiles had representatives at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> in winter 183/2 (9. 1), they were probably dispatched in autumn after Flamininus' visit proved useless (5. 18). <milestone unit="page" n="223">[223]</milestone> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ Λακεδαίμονος φυγάδων</w>:</emph> the 'old exiles', once more expelled (5. 18 n.) </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ἀρχκεσίλαος καὶ Ἀγησίπολις</w>:</emph> Arcesilaus is unknown. <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Agesipolis&groupId=302&placeId=594">Agesipolis</a>, son of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Agesipolis&groupId=302&placeId=594">Agesipolis</a> and grandson of Cleombrotus of the Agiad house, had been installed as king, while a minor, along with Lycurgus in spring 219 (iv. 35. 10 n.); expelled by Lycurgus he probably took refuge in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Achaea&groupId=272&placeId=533">Achaea</a> shortly after Cleomenes' death (Livy, xxxiv. 26. 14; Niese, ii. 463 n. 2 thinks the Cleomenes there mentioned is his guardian, but Livy says 'qui primus tyrannus Lacedaemone fuit'). <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Agesipolis&groupId=302&placeId=594">Agesipolis</a> shared in the war on Nabis in 195 (Livy, loc. cit.), but was not restored afterwards; he was however presumably included in the restoration of the 'old exiles' by Philopoemen in 188 (xxii. 11. 7 n.). Since Areus and Alcibiades are not mentioned anywhere again, they may have perished when their group was again exiled (Errington, 188). </p>
23.6.3 - 23.6.3
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οἱ δὲ μετὰ τούτων κατασταθέντες</w>:</emph> cf. 9. 1, where they are unnamed. </p>

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