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Book 31 - Chapter 32

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<head lang="la">III. Res Asiae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29asi%2Fan">Ἀσίαν</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fas">Προυσίας</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="e%29ce%2Fpemyen">ἐξέπεμψεν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Agalatw%3Dn">Γαλατῶν</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="kathgorh%2Fsontas">κατηγορήσοντας</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnous">Εὐμένους</w>,
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<w lemma="ou%28%3Dtos">οὗτος</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Flin">πάλιν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="a%29delfo%5Cn">ἀδελφὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Fattalon">Ἄτταλον</w> <w lemma="e%29cape%2Fsteilen">ἐξαπέστειλεν</w> <w lemma="a%29pologhso%2Fmenon">ἀπολογησόμενον</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="diabola%2Fs">διαβολάς</w>.
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<w lemma="%2A%29ariara%2Fqhs">Ἀριαράθης</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmh%7C">Ῥώμῃ</w> <w lemma="ste%2Ffanon">στέφανον</w> <w lemma="a%29po%5C">ἀπὸ</w> <w lemma="xrusw%3Dn">χρυσῶν</w> <w lemma="muri%2Fwn">μυρίων</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fpemye">ἔπεμψε</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="diasafh%2Fsontas">διασαφήσοντας</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftw%7C">συγκλήτῳ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Atebe%2Frion">Τεβέριον</w> <w lemma="a%29pa%2Fnthsin">ἀπάντησιν</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kaqo%2Flou">καθόλου</w> <w lemma="parakale%2Fsontas">παρακαλέσοντας</w> <w lemma="diasafei%3Dn">διασαφεῖν</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="a%29%5Cn">ἂν</w> <w lemma="de%2Fwntai">δέωνται</w>, <w lemma="dio%2Fti">διότι</w> <w lemma="pa%3Dn">πᾶν</w> <w lemma="poih%2Fsein">ποιήσειν</w> <w lemma="e%28%2Ftoimo%2Fs">ἕτοιμός</w> <w lemma="e%29sti">ἐστι</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fois">Ῥωμαίοις</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="paraggello%2Fmenon">παραγγελλόμενον</w>. —
<head>X. Affairs of Greece</head>In Asia, Prusias and the Galatians dispatched envoys to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> to accuse Eumenes,
and that prince sent his brother Attalus to defend him against the charges.
Ariarathes sent a "crown" of a thousand gold pieces to the goddess <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and envoys of the inform the senate of his reply to Tiberius, begging them to point out to him what they required of him, as he was ready to comply with all the commands of the Romans.

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31.32.1 - 31.32.3
<p rend="Plain Text">Envoys sent to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> from Asia (161/0)</p> <p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt from de legat. gent. is taken from the res Asiae of Ol. 154, 4 = 161/0; see p. 36. Cf. Diod. xxxi. 28.</p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Προυσίας . . . μετὰ Γαλατῶν</w>:</emph> for an earlier embassy sent to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, to complain about Eumenes see 1. 3 n., xxx. 30. 2 n. (165/4). Meanwhile Eumenes had been aiding Attis, the high priest at Pessinus, against the Galatians, and Prusias' present complaints probably concerned this. For inscriptions recording correspondence between Eumenes II and Attalus II and Attis see xxi. 37. 5 n.; Welles, nos. 55–61; OGIS, 315; Sthelin, 82; Hansen <emph rend="superscript">2</emph> , 126; Habicht, RE, 'Prusias II (2)', cols. 1114–15. These show that, despite the Senate's decision to grant independence to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a> (xxx. 28 n.), Eumenes had intrigued there, and Prusias had been active in the area against him. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ἄτταλον</w>:</emph> cf. 1. 2 n. Attalus had probably already been designated co-ruler by Eumenes. Syll. 671 and 672 are Delphic decrees dated to the archonship of Amphistratus (160/59; the date 159/8 in Manni, Fasti, 77–78 n. 3, neglects the relationship between the inscriptions of Amphistratus and those of Emmenidas, as described by Daux, 122), which show that Attalus was already king early in 159, and Eumenes was still alive three months later (cf. Daux, 502–3, 686, 690; Hansen <emph rend="superscript">2</emph> , 127); and IG, ii <emph rend="superscript">2</emph> . 953 shows Eumenes entrusting the government to someone who is almost certainly Attalus in the Attic year 161/0 (Dinsmoor, Archons, 260; Hansen <emph rend="superscript">2</emph> , 127). </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ἀριαράθης</w>:</emph> on Ariarathes V of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cappadocia&groupId=435&placeId=343">Cappadocia</a> see 3. 1 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῇ . . . Ῥώμῃ στέφανον . . . ἔπεμψε</w>:</emph> the 'crown' (cf. xx. 12. 5 n.) was of 10,000 gold staters (not 1,000, as Paton). For the sending of 'crowns' to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> see xxx. 5. 4 n.; and for a statue of the populus Romanus (with which <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> is perhaps here equated) cf. 4. 4 n. Since a gold stater was worth 20 Attic silver drachmae, this 'crown' was worth over 33 talents. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τὴν πρὸς τὸν Τεβέριον ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῦ</w>:</emph> the embassy of Ti. Gracchus had been sent to Asia after Demetrius' escape in 162 (cf. 15. 9 n.); its duties included looking into the sentiments of the other kings and their relations with the Galatians. P.'s account of Gracchus' meeting with Ariarathes has not survived (33. 1); it will not have taken place before 161 (since the envoys had business in Greece before going on to Asia: 15. 10), and was more likely in 160 (see 33. 1 n.). According to Diod. xxxi. 28 (cf. xxxii. 1. 2 n.) Ariarathes had agreed to abandon a proposed marriage alliance with Demetrius I (cf. Iustin. xxxv. 1. 2) and to break off friendship with him. On the arrival of Ariarathes' embassy at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, and the granting of an audience to it this same autumn (160) see xxxii. 1. 1–3. <milestone unit="page" n="516">[516]</milestone> </p>

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