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<head lang="la">D. Olymp. 153, 4. Res Italiae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="paragegono%2Ftwn">παραγεγονότων</w> <w lemma="presbeutw%3Dn">πρεσβευτῶν</w> <w lemma="pleio%2Fnwn">πλειόνων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="e%28te%2Frwn">ἑτέρων</w>, <w lemma="e%29pifanesta%2Ftwn">ἐπιφανεστάτων</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rodi%2Fwn">Ῥοδίων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29astumh%2Fdhn">Ἀστυμήδην</w>, <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29re%2Fan">Εὐρέαν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anaci%2Fdamon">Ἀναξίδαμον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Asa%2Fturon">Σάτυρον</w>, <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fou">Προυσίου</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Apu%2Fqwna">Πύθωνα</w>, <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="e%29xrhma%2Ftisen">ἐχρημάτισεν</w> <w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhtos">σύγκλητος</w>.
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<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fou">Προυσίου</w> <w lemma="kathgori%2Fan">κατηγορίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29poiou%3Dnt%27">ἐποιοῦντ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnous">Εὐμένους</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w>, <w lemma="fa%2Fskontes">φάσκοντες</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3Dn">αὑτῶν</w> <w lemma="te%2F">τέ</w> <w lemma="tina">τινα</w> <w lemma="xwri%2Fa">χωρία</w> <w lemma="parairei%3Dsqai">παραιρεῖσθαι</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2Agalati%2Fas">Γαλατίας</w> <w lemma="ou%29k">οὐκ</w> <w lemma="a%29fi%2Fstasqai">ἀφίστασθαι</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="para%2Fpan">παράπαν</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5C">οὐδὲ</w> <w lemma="peiqarxei%3Dn">πειθαρχεῖν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftou">συγκλήτου</w> <w lemma="do%2Fgmasin">δόγμασιν</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="sfe%2Ftera">σφέτερα</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="fronou%3Dntas">φρονοῦντας</w> <w lemma="swmatopoiei%3Dn">σωματοποιεῖν</w>,
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<w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fwn">Ῥωμαίων</w> <w lemma="ai%28roume%2Fnous">αἱρουμένους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="boulome%2Fnous">βουλομένους</w> <w lemma="politeu%2Fesqai">πολιτεύεσθαι</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftou">συγκλήτου</w> <w lemma="do%2Fgmasin">δόγμασιν</w> <w lemma="a%29kolou%2Fqws">ἀκολούθως</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fnta">πάντα</w> <w lemma="tro%2Fpon">τρόπον</w> <w lemma="e%29lattou%3Dn">ἐλαττοῦν</w>.
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<w lemma="h%29%3Dsan">ἦσαν</w> <w lemma="de%2F">δέ</w> <w lemma="tines">τινες</w> <w lemma="presbeutai%5C">πρεσβευταὶ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29asi%2Fas">Ἀσίας</w> <w lemma="po%2Flewn">πόλεων</w>, <w lemma="oi%28%5C">οἳ</w> <w lemma="kathgo%2Froun">κατηγόρουν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w>, <w lemma="e%29%2Fmfasin">ἔμφασιν</w> <w lemma="poiou%3Dntes">ποιοῦντες</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxon">Ἀντίοχον</w> <w lemma="koinopragi%2Fas">κοινοπραγίας</w>.
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<w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhtos">σύγκλητος</w> <w lemma="diakou%2Fsasa">διακούσασα</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kathgorou%2Fntwn">κατηγορούντων</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Ft%27">οὔτ᾽</w> <w lemma="a%29pe%2Frripte">ἀπέρριπτε</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="diabola%5Cs">διαβολὰς</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Ft%27">οὔτ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29ce%2Ffaine">ἐξέφαινε</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%28auth%3Ds">ἑαυτῆς</w> <w lemma="gnw%2Fmhn">γνώμην</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="suneth%2Frei">συνετήρει</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%28auth%3D%7C">ἑαυτῇ</w>, <w lemma="diapistou%3Dsa">διαπιστοῦσα</w> <w lemma="kaqo%2Flou">καθόλου</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxon:">Ἀντίοχον·</w>
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<w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="ge">γε</w> <w lemma="mh%5Cn">μὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Agala%2Ftais">Γαλάταις</w> <w lemma="a%29ei%2F">ἀεί</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="proseti%2Fqei">προσετίθει</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sunepi%2Fsxue">συνεπίσχυε</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29leuqeri%2Fas">ἐλευθερίας</w>.
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<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Atebe%2Frion">Τεβέριον</w> <w lemma="h%28%2Fkontes">ἥκοντες</w> <w lemma="a%29po%5C">ἀπὸ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="presbei%2Fas">πρεσβείας</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5Cn">οὐδὲν</w> <w lemma="peritto%2Fteron">περιττότερον</w> <w lemma="h%29dunh%2Fqhsan">ἠδυνήθησαν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Ft%27">οὔτ᾽</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%5C">αὐτοὶ</w> <w lemma="dialabei%3Dn">διαλαβεῖν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Fte">οὔτε</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftw%7C">συγκλήτῳ</w> <w lemma="diasafh%3Dsai">διασαφῆσαι</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnh">Εὐμένη</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxon">Ἀντίοχον</w>, <w lemma="h%29%2Fper">ἤπερ</w> <w lemma="a%28%5C">ἃ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fteron">πρότερον</w> <w lemma="o%29%2Fntes">ὄντες</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmh%7C">Ῥώμῃ</w> <w lemma="diela%2Fmbanon">διελάμβανον</w>.
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<w lemma="ou%28%2Ftws">οὕτως</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%5Cs">αὐτοὺς</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="basilei%3Ds">βασιλεῖς</w> <w lemma="e%29cete%2Fmonto">ἐξετέμοντο</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29pa%2Fnthsin">ἀπάντησιν</w> <w lemma="filanqrwpi%2Fa%7C">φιλανθρωπίᾳ</w>.
<head>VII. Affairs of Italy</head><head>Embassies from Prusias, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, and Achaea</head>Many other embassies also reached <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> this year, the principal ones being that under Astymedes from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, that from the Achaeans consisting of Eureas, Anaxidamus and Satyrus, and that from Prusias headed by Python.
The senate gave audiences to all these. The envoys from Prusias complained of King Eumenes, asserting that he had annexed some Bithynian places, and did not by any means cease from meddling with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a>,
but disobeyed the decrees of the senate, continuing to strengthen his own partisans there and to weaken by every means in his power those who were favourable to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, and who desired to act in accordance with the decrees of the senate.
There were also some envoys from Asiatic cities who accused Eumenes, laying stress on his understanding with Antiochus.
The senate, after listening to the accusations, neither repelled them nor pronounced any opinion, but took note of them, generally distrusting Eumenes and Antiochus.
As for the Galatians they continued to add to and further secure their liberties.
Tiberius and his colleagues, on returning from their mission, were incapable of forming themselves or stating to the senate any opinion about Eumenes and Antiochus further than that which they had formerly entertained when in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.
So well had the kings succeeded in relaxing their vigour by the warmth of their reception.

Walbank Commentary

Overview
30.30.1 - 30.32.12
<p rend="Plain Text">Embassies at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> from Prusias, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Achaea&groupId=272&placeId=533">Achaea</a> (165/4)</p> <p rend="Plain Text">These two excerpts (30–31 and 32) from de legat. gent. belong to res Italiae of Ol. 153, 4 = 165/4; see pp. 33–34. They describe the hearing of foreign embassies at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, probably at the beginning of the consular year of 164.</p>
Specifics
30.30.1 - 30.30.1
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ . . . Ῥοδίων . . . Ἀστυμήδην</w>:</emph> cf. 4. 1 n., 21. 4, xxvii. 7. 3 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ . . . τῶν Ἀχαιῶν . . . Εὐρέαν καὶ Ἀναξίδαμον καὶ Σάτυρον</w>:</emph> all mentioned for the first time. Anaxidamus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Megalopolis&groupId=745&placeId=1360">Megalopolis</a> (cf. xxxiii. 3. 1 f.) may be a grandson of the homonymous general who fought <milestone unit="page" n="455">[455]</milestone> under Philopoemen at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Mantinea&groupId=731&placeId=1339">Mantinea</a> (xi. 18. 1 n.). The appearance of new names follows naturally on the deportations, but the relationship of these men to Callicrates is not clear; he will hardly have favoured appeals on behalf of the detainees (29. 1 n.), but either could not prevent it or acquiesced as a matter of policy. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ . . . Προυσίου . . . Πύθωνα</w>:</emph> otherwise unknown. </p>
30.30.2 - 30.30.2
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">αὑτῶν . . . τινα χωρία παραιρεῖσθαι τὸν</w> E<w lang="el-GR">ὐμένη</w>:</emph> cf. Livy, ep. 46, 'legati Prusiae regis questi sunt de Eumene, quod fines suos popularetur, dixeruntque eum conspirasse cum Antiocho aduersus populum R.' This, following Livy's usual practice for such embassies, is probably based on an annalist; but xxxi. 1. 3 confirms that he alleged this collaboration with Antiochus. See Pdech, Mthode, 371 n. 111. The Bithynian places are probably some taken by Eumenes in the Galatian war (cf. Habicht, RE, 'Prusias II' (2), col. 1113), not <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phrygia&groupId=896&placeId=1611">Phrygia</a> Epictetus, awarded to Eumenes after <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Magnesia&groupId=729&placeId=1336">Magnesia</a> (xxi. 46. 10 n.) and eventually ceded to him by Prusias I in 183 after the war between them (xxii. 20. 8 n.), as Magie (ii. 767 n. 65) suggests. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῆς Γαλατίας οὐκ ἀφίστασθαι</w>:</emph> on the Senate's decision (165) see 28 n. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ τῶν τῆς Ἀσίας πόλεων</w>:</emph> they included Selge (xxxi. 1. 3 n.). </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῆς πρὸς τὸν Ἀντίοχον κοινοπραγίας</w>:</emph> as Prusias too alleged (§ 2 n.). </p>
30.30.7 - 30.30.8
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οἱ δὲ . . . φιλανθρωπίᾳ</w>:</emph> transferred from after 32. 10 <w lang="el-GR">ἀκληρούντων</w> by Schweighaeuser, whom editors follow; since the return of the embassy is mentioned in 31. 19–20, the transfer is to be accepted (see p. 30). </p>
30.30.7 - 30.30.7
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οἱ . . . περὶ τὸν</w> T<w lang="el-GR">εβέριον . . . ἀπὸ τῆς πρεσβείας</w>:</emph> Ti. Gracchus and his colleagues, who had been sent to the east in 166 (27. 1–4 n.) and had recently returned (31. 19), probably in the late autumn or early winter of 165, after visiting <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Syria&groupId=995&placeId=502">Syria</a>, and Pergamun. A speech delivered at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> by Gracchus was still extant in Cicero's time (Cic. Brutus, 79 = Malcovati, ORF <emph rend="superscript">3</emph> i. pp. 88–89). </p>
30.30.8 - 30.30.8
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οὕτως . . . ἐξετέμοντο τῇ . . . φιλανθρωπίᾳ</w>:</emph> <w lang="el-GR">ἐκτέμνειν</w> is a violent metaphor ('castrate') and Schweighaeuser proposed <w lang="el-GR">ἐξετρέποντο</w>; but P. despised Gracchus thoroughly (cf. 27. 1 n.). The plural <w lang="el-GR">βασιλεῖς</w> suggests that Eumenes, as well as Antiochus (27. 1–4), had bemused the envoys. </p>

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