Polybius, Histories

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Book 30 - Chapter 27

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<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="sunte%2Fleian">συντέλειαν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29gw%2Fnwn">ἀγώνων</w>, <w lemma="a%29%2Frti">ἄρτι</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w> <w lemma="gegono%2Ftwn">γεγονότων</w>, <w lemma="h%28%3Dkon">ἧκον</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Atebe%2Frion">Τεβέριον</w> <w lemma="presbeutai%2F">πρεσβευταί</w>, <w lemma="katasko%2Fpwn">κατασκόπων</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxontes">ἔχοντες</w> <w lemma="ta%2Fcin">τάξιν</w>.
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<w lemma="oi%28%3Ds">οἷς</w> <w lemma="ou%28%2Ftws">οὕτως</w> <w lemma="e%29pideci%2Fws">ἐπιδεξίως</w> <w lemma="a%29ph%2Fnthsen">ἀπήντησεν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxos">Ἀντίοχος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="filofro%2Fnws">φιλοφρόνως</w> <w lemma="w%28%2Fste">ὥστε</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="oi%28%3Don">οἷον</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Atebe%2Frion">Τεβέριον</w> <w lemma="u%28popteu%3Dsai%2F">ὑποπτεῦσαί</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="pragmatiko%5Cn">πραγματικὸν</w> <w lemma="h%29%5C">ἢ</w> <w lemma="paratribh%3Ds">παρατριβῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fmfasin">ἔμφασιν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxon">ἔχον</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aleca%2Fndreian">Ἀλεξάνδρειαν</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="lego%2Fntwn">λεγόντων</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="toiou%3Dton">τοιοῦτον</w> <w lemma="kataginw%2Fskein">καταγινώσκειν</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="u%28perbolh%5Cn">ὑπερβολὴν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29pa%2Fnthsin">ἀπάντησιν</w> <w lemma="filanqrwpi%2Fas:">φιλανθρωπίας·</w>
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<w lemma="o%28%2Fs">ὅς</w> <w lemma="ge">γε</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fllois">ἄλλοις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="au%29lh%3Ds">αὐλῆς</w> <w lemma="parexw%2Frhse">παρεχώρησε</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="presbeutai%3Ds">πρεσβευταῖς</w>, <w lemma="mikrou%3D">μικροῦ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="diadh%2Fmatos">διαδήματος</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%2Ffasin">ἐπίφασιν</w>, <w lemma="kai%2Fper">καίπερ</w> <w lemma="ou%29k">οὐκ</w> <w lemma="w%29%5Cn">ὢν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="proaire%2Fsei">προαιρέσει</w> <w lemma="toiou%3Dtos">τοιοῦτος</w>,
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<w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%29nanti%2Fon">τοὐναντίον</w> <w lemma="a%29llotriw%2Ftata">ἀλλοτριώτατα</w> <w lemma="diakei%2Fmenos">διακείμενος</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fous">Ῥωμαίους</w>.
Shortly after the end of the games Tiberius Gracchus and the other legates arrived in the quality of inspectors.
Antiochus, however, was so adroit and courteous when he met them that Tiberius and his colleagues, far from acquiring any real suspicion about him or detecting anything indicative of disaffection due to what had happened at Alexander, even discredited those who said anything of the kind, owing to their exceedingly kind reception:
for in addition to other favours he even gave up his palace to them, and very nearly gave up his crown to them as well, so far his demeanour went,
although his real feelings were not so, but quite the reverse.