<head>Submission of Demetrius</head>When Menochares reached Demetrius at Antioch and informed him of his interview with Tiberius Gracchus in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cappadocia&groupId=435&placeId=343">Cappadocia</a>, the king, thinking that the most urgent thing for the present was to talk over Tiberius as far as he could,
treated other matters as of secondary importance and sent messages to Tiberius first to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pamphylia&groupId=833&placeId=1505">Pamphylia</a> and next to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, engaging to submit entirely to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, and finally succeeded in getting himself recognized as king.
Tiberius indeed was very kindly disposed to Demetrius, and therefore contributed much to the success of his efforts and his establishment on the throne.
Demetrius having thus gained his object, at once sent envoys to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> conveying a present of a "crown," as well as the murderer of Gnaeus Octavius and the critic Isocrates.
Walbank Commentary