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Book 5 - Chapter 67

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<w lemma="%2Aplh%5Cn">Πλὴν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="pre%2Fsbewn">πρέσβεων</w> <w lemma="a%29fikome%2Fnwn">ἀφικομένων</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aswsi%2Fbion">Σωσίβιον</w> <w lemma="e%28%2Ftoimoi">ἕτοιμοι</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="pa%3Dn">πᾶν</w>,
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<w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxos">Ἀντίοχος</w> <w lemma="megi%2Fsthn">μεγίστην</w> <w lemma="e%29poiei%3Dto">ἐποιεῖτο</w> <w lemma="spoudh%5Cn">σπουδὴν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="kaqa%2Fpac">καθάπαξ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fplois">ὅπλοις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="dikai%2Fois">δικαίοις</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29nteu%2Fcewn">ἐντεύξεων</w> <w lemma="kataperiei%3Dnai">καταπεριεῖναι</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29alecandrei%2Fas">Ἀλεξανδρείας</w>.
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<w lemma="h%28%3D%7C">ᾗ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paragenome%2Fnwn">παραγενομένων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="presbeutw%3Dn">πρεσβευτῶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkeian">Σελεύκειαν</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sugkatabaino%2Fntwn">συγκαταβαινόντων</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="me%2Fros">μέρος</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="dialu%2Fsews">διαλύσεως</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgous">λόγους</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aswsi%2Fbion">Σωσίβιον</w> <w lemma="e%29ntola%2Fs">ἐντολάς</w>,
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<w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="basileu%5Cs">βασιλεὺς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Frti">ἄρτι</w> <w lemma="gegono%5Cs">γεγονὸς</w> <w lemma="a%29tu%2Fxhma">ἀτύχημα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="profane%5Cs">προφανὲς</w> <w lemma="a%29di%2Fkhma">ἀδίκημα</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29nestw%2Fshs">ἐνεστώσης</w> <w lemma="katalh%2Fyews">καταλήψεως</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Akoi%2Flhn">Κοίλην</w> <w lemma="%2Asuri%2Fan">Συρίαν</w> <w lemma="to%2Fpwn">τόπων</w> <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="deino%5Cn">δεινὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29no%2Fmize">ἐνόμιζε</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="dikaiologi%2Fas">δικαιολογίας</w>,
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<w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="plei%3Dston">πλεῖστον</w> <w lemma="ou%29d%27">οὐδ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="a%29dikh%2Fmati">ἀδικήματι</w>, <w lemma="kathriqmei%3Dto">κατηριθμεῖτο</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="pra%3Dcin">πρᾶξιν</w>, <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="kaqhko%2Fntwn">καθηκόντων</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w> <w lemma="tinwn">τινων</w> <w lemma="a%29ntipepoihme%2Fnos">ἀντιπεποιημένος</w>,
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<w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="prw%2Fthn">πρώτην</w> <w lemma="%2A%29antigo%2Fnou">Ἀντιγόνου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Amonofqa%2Flmou">Μονοφθάλμου</w> <w lemma="kata%2Flhyin">κατάληψιν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkou">Σελεύκου</w> <w lemma="dunastei%2Fan">δυναστείαν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="to%2Fpwn">τόπων</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w> <w lemma="e%29kei%2Fnas">ἐκείνας</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ffh">ἔφη</w> <w lemma="kuriwta%2Ftas">κυριωτάτας</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dnai">εἶναι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dikaiota%2Ftas">δικαιοτάτας</w> <w lemma="kth%2Fseis">κτήσεις</w>, <w lemma="kaq%27">καθ᾽</w> <w lemma="a%28%5Cs">ἃς</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%3Ds">αὐτοῖς</w>, <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fw%7C">Πτολεμαίῳ</w>, <w lemma="kaqh%2Fkein">καθήκειν</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Akoi%2Flhn">Κοίλην</w> <w lemma="%2Asuri%2Fan:">Συρίαν·</w>
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<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="diapolemh%3Dsai">διαπολεμῆσαι</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Fgonon">Ἀντίγονον</w> <w lemma="ou%29x">οὐχ</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3D%7C">αὑτῷ</w>, <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkw%7C">Σελεύκῳ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="sugkataskeua%2Fzonta">συγκατασκευάζοντα</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5Cn">ἀρχὴν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="to%2Fpwn">τόπων</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w>.
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<w lemma="ma%2Flista">μάλιστα</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="koino%5Cn">κοινὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29pie%2Fzei">ἐπιέζει</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntwn">πάντων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fwn">βασιλέων</w> <w lemma="sugxw%2Frhma">συγχώρημα</w>, <w lemma="kaq%27">καθ᾽</w> <w lemma="ou%28%5Cs">οὓς</w> <w lemma="kairou%5Cs">καιροὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Fgonon">Ἀντίγονον</w> <w lemma="nikh%2Fsantes">νικήσαντες</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="bouleuo%2Fmenoi">βουλευόμενοι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="proai%2Fresin">προαίρεσιν</w> <w lemma="o%28mo%2Fse">ὁμόσε</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntes">πάντες</w>, <w lemma="%2Aka%2Fssandros">Κάσσανδρος</w>, <w lemma="%2Alusi%2Fmaxos">Λυσίμαχος</w>, <w lemma="%2Ase%2Fleukos">Σέλευκος</w>, <w lemma="e%29%2Fkrinan">ἔκριναν</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkou">Σελεύκου</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Flhn">ὅλην</w> <w lemma="%2Asuri%2Fan">Συρίαν</w> <w lemma="u%28pa%2Frxein">ὑπάρχειν</w>.
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<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fou">Πτολεμαίου</w> <w lemma="ta%29nanti%2Fa">τἀναντία</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w> <w lemma="e%29peirw%3Dnto">ἐπειρῶντο</w> <w lemma="sunista%2Fnein:">συνιστάνειν·</w> <w lemma="to%2F">τό</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="paro%5Cn">παρὸν</w> <w lemma="hu%29%3Dcon">ηὖξον</w> <w lemma="a%29di%2Fkhma">ἀδίκημα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="deino%5Cn">δεινὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29poi%2Foun">ἐποίουν</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="gegono%2Fs">γεγονός</w>, <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="paraspo%2Fndhma">παρασπόνδημα</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Aqeodo%2Ftou">Θεοδότου</w> <w lemma="prodosi%2Fan">προδοσίαν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ffodon">ἔφοδον</w> <w lemma="a%29na%2Fgontes">ἀνάγοντες</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29antio%2Fxou">Ἀντιόχου</w>,
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<w lemma="proefe%2Fronto">προεφέροντο</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fou">Πτολεμαίου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Ala%2Fgou">Λάγου</w> <w lemma="kth%2Fseis">κτήσεις</w>, <w lemma="fa%2Fskontes">φάσκοντες</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftw%7C">τούτῳ</w> <w lemma="sumpolemh%3Dsai">συμπολεμῆσαι</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkw%7C">Σελεύκῳ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w>, <w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="w%28%3D%7C">ᾧ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Flhs">ὅλης</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29asi%2Fas">Ἀσίας</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5Cn">ἀρχὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkw%7C">Σελεύκῳ</w> <w lemma="periqei%3Dnai">περιθεῖναι</w>, <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Akoi%2Flhn">Κοίλην</w> <w lemma="%2Asuri%2Fan">Συρίαν</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3D%7C">αὑτῷ</w> <w lemma="katakth%2Fsasqai">κατακτήσασθαι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Afoini%2Fkhn">Φοινίκην</w>.
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<w lemma="e%29le%2Fgeto">ἐλέγετο</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paraplh%2Fsia">παραπλήσια</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="pleona%2Fkis">πλεονάκις</w> <w lemma="u%28p%27">ὑπ᾽</w> <w lemma="a%29mfote%2Frwn">ἀμφοτέρων</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="diapresbei%2Fas">διαπρεσβείας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="e%29nteu%2Fceis">ἐντεύξεις</w>, <w lemma="e%29petelei%3Dto">ἐπετελεῖτο</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="para%2Fpan">παράπαν</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%2Fn">οὐδέν</w>, <w lemma="a%28%2Fte">ἅτε</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="dikaiologi%2Fas">δικαιολογίας</w> <w lemma="ginome%2Fnhs">γινομένης</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="koinw%3Dn">κοινῶν</w> <w lemma="fi%2Flwn">φίλων</w>, <w lemma="metacu%5C">μεταξὺ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="mhdeno%5Cs">μηδενὸς</w> <w lemma="u%28pa%2Frxontos">ὑπάρχοντος</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="dunhsome%2Fnou">δυνησομένου</w> <w lemma="parakatasxei%3Dn">παρακατασχεῖν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kwlu%3Dsai">κωλῦσαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="dokou%3Dntos">δοκοῦντος</w> <w lemma="a%29dikei%3Dn">ἀδικεῖν</w> <w lemma="o%28rmh%2Fn">ὁρμήν</w>.
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<w lemma="ma%2Flista">μάλιστα</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="parei%3Dxe">παρεῖχε</w> <w lemma="dusxrhsti%2Fan">δυσχρηστίαν</w> <w lemma="a%29mfote%2Frois">ἀμφοτέροις</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaio%2Fn:">Ἀχαιόν·</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Dos">Πτολεμαῖος</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="e%29spou%2Fdaze">ἐσπούδαζε</w> <w lemma="perilabei%3Dn">περιλαβεῖν</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="sunqh%2Fkais">συνθήκαις</w> <w lemma="au%29to%2Fn">αὐτόν</w>,
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<w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxos">Ἀντίοχος</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kaqa%2Fpac">καθάπαξ</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5C">οὐδὲ</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgon">λόγον</w> <w lemma="h%29nei%2Fxeto">ἠνείχετο</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w>, <w lemma="deino%5Cn">δεινὸν</w> <w lemma="h%28gou%2Fmenos">ἡγούμενος</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tolma%3Dn">τολμᾶν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="periste%2Fllein">περιστέλλειν</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="a%29posta%2Ftas">ἀποστάτας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="mnh%2Fmhn">μνήμην</w> <w lemma="poiei%3Dsqai">ποιεῖσθαι</w> <w lemma="peri%2F">περί</w> <w lemma="tinos">τινος</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="toiou%2Ftwn">τοιούτων</w>.
But, to resume, when on this occasion the ambassadors returned to Sosibius they found him prepared for any emergency,
while the chief object of Antiochus was to prove himself in his interviews with embassies coming from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Alexandria&groupId=1063&placeId=1868">Alexandria</a> decidedly superior both in military strength and in the justice of his cause.
So that when the envoys arrived at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Seleucia&groupId=233&placeId=484">Seleucia</a>, and as they had been instructed by Sosibius, consented to discuss in detail the terms of the proposed arrangement,
the king in his arguments did not pretend to regard as a serious grievance the recent loss they had suffered by his obviously unjust occupation of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a>, and in fact did not on the whole reckon this act to have been an offence at all, since, as he maintained, he had only tried to recover possession of what was his own property, the soundest and justest title to the possession of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a>, according to which it was not Ptolemy\'s but his own, being its original occupation by Antigonus Monophtalmus and the rule of Seleucus over the district. For Ptolemy, he said, had waged war on Antigonus in order to establish the sovereignty of Seleucus over <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a> and not his own.
But above all he urged the convention entered into by the kings after their victory over Antigonus, when all three of them, Cassander, Lysimachus, and Seleucus, after deliberating in common, decided that whole of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Syria&groupId=995&placeId=502">Syria</a> should belong to Seleucus.
Ptolemy's envoys attempted to maintain the opposite case. They magnified the wrong they were suffering and represented the grievance as most serious, treating the treachery of Theodotus and Antiochus' invasion as a distinct violation of their rights,
adducing as evidence the occupation by Ptolemy, son of Lagus, and alleging that Ptolemy had aided Seleucus in the war under the stipulation, that while investing Seleucus with the sovereignty of the whole of Asia, he was to obtain <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coele-Syria&groupId=484&placeId=908">Coele-Syria</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phoenicia&groupId=894&placeId=464">Phoenicia</a> for himself.
These and similar arguments were repeated again and again by both parties in the course of the negotiations and conferences, but absolutely no result was arrived at, since the controversy was conducted by the common friends of both monarchs, and there was no one to interpose between them with the power of preventing and restraining any disposition that displayed itself to transgress the bounds of justice.
The chief difficulty on both sides was the matter of Achaeus; for Ptolemy wished him to be included in the treaty,
but Antiochus absolutely refused to listen to this, thinking it a scandalous thing that Ptolemy should venture to take rebels under his protection or even allude to such persons.