<head lang="la">VI. Res Aegypti</head><w lemma="%2Atw%3Dn">Τῶν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="parabo%2Flwn">παραβόλων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kalw%3Dn">καλῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Frgwn">ἔργων</w> <w lemma="e%29fi%2Fentai">ἐφίενται</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="polloi%2F">πολλοί</w>, <w lemma="tolmw%3Dsi">τολμῶσι</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%29li%2Fgoi">ὀλίγοι</w> <w lemma="yau%2Fein">ψαύειν</w>.
<w lemma="kai%2Ftoi">καίτοι</w> <w lemma="polu%5C">πολὺ</w> <w lemma="kalli%2Fous">καλλίους</w> <w lemma="a%29forma%5Cs">ἀφορμὰς</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dxe">εἶχε</w> <w lemma="%2Asko%2Fpas">Σκόπας</w> <w lemma="%2Akleome%2Fnous">Κλεομένους</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="paraba%2Fllesqai">παραβάλλεσθαι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tolma%3Dn">τολμᾶν</w>.
<w lemma="e%29kei%3Dnos">ἐκεῖνος</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="prokatalhfqei%5Cs">προκαταληφθεὶς</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="au%29ta%5Cs">αὐτὰς</w> <w lemma="suneklei%2Fsqh">συνεκλείσθη</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="i%29di%2Fois">ἰδίοις</w> <w lemma="oi%29ke%2Ftais">οἰκέταις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="fi%2Flois">φίλοις</w> <w lemma="e%29lpi%2Fdas:">ἐλπίδας·</w> <w lemma="a%29ll%27">ἀλλ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fmws">ὅμως</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5C">οὐδὲ</w> <w lemma="tau%2Ftas">ταύτας</w> <w lemma="e%29gkate%2Flipen">ἐγκατέλιπεν</w>, <w lemma="a%29ll%27">ἀλλ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fson">ὅσον</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="dunato%5Cs">δυνατὸς</w> <w lemma="e%29ch%2Flegce">ἐξήλεγξε</w>, <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="kalw%3Ds">καλῶς</w> <w lemma="a%29poqanei%3Dn">ἀποθανεῖν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="zh%3Dn">ζῆν</w> <w lemma="ai%29sxrw%3Ds">αἰσχρῶς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="plei%2Fonos">πλείονος</w> <w lemma="poihsa%2Fmenos">ποιησάμενος</w>.
<w lemma="%2Asko%2Fpas">Σκόπας</w> <w lemma="de%2F">δέ</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="xei%3Dra">χεῖρα</w> <w lemma="barei%3Dan">βαρεῖαν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxwn">ἔχων</w> <w lemma="sunergo%5Cn">συνεργὸν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kairo%2Fn">καιρόν</w>, <w lemma="a%28%2Fte">ἅτε</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fti">ἔτι</w> <w lemma="paido%5Cs">παιδὸς</w> <w lemma="o%29%2Fntos">ὄντος</w>, <w lemma="me%2Fllwn">μέλλων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="bouleuo%2Fmenos">βουλευόμενος</w> <w lemma="prokatelh%2Ffqh">προκατελήφθη</w>.
<w lemma="gno%2Fntes">γνόντες</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="au%29to%5Cn">αὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aristome%2Fnhn">Ἀριστομένην</w> <w lemma="sunaqroi%2Fzonta">συναθροίζοντα</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="fi%2Flous">φίλους</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="i%29di%2Fan">ἰδίαν</w> <w lemma="oi%29ki%2Fan">οἰκίαν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sunedreu%2Fonta">συνεδρεύοντα</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w>, <w lemma="pe%2Fmyante%2Fs">πέμψαντές</w> <w lemma="tinas">τινας</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28paspistw%3Dn">ὑπασπιστῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29ka%2Floun">ἐκάλουν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="sune%2Fdrion">συνέδριον</w>.
<w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="ou%28%2Ftws">οὕτως</w> <w lemma="pareisth%2Fkei">παρειστήκει</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="frenw%3Dn">φρενῶν</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Fte">οὔτε</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fttein">πράττειν</w> <w lemma="e%29to%2Flma">ἐτόλμα</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%28ch%3Ds">ἑξῆς</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5Cn">οὐδὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Fte">οὔτε</w> <w lemma="kalou%2Fmenos">καλούμενος</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="oi%28%3Do%2Fs">οἷός</w> <w lemma="t%27">τ᾽</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="peiqarxei%3Dn">πειθαρχεῖν</w>, <w lemma="o%28%5C">ὃ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntwn">πάντων</w> <w lemma="e%29sti%5Cn">ἐστὶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fsxaton">ἔσχατον</w>,
<w lemma="e%28%2Fws">ἕως</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aristome%2Fnhn">Ἀριστομένην</w> <w lemma="gno%2Fntes">γνόντες</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29logi%2Fan">ἀλογίαν</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="stratiw%2Ftas">στρατιώτας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="qhri%2Fa">θηρία</w> <w lemma="perie%2Fsthsan">περιέστησαν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="oi%29ki%2Fan">οἰκίαν</w>,
<w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnous">Εὐμένους</w> <w lemma="pe%2Fmyantes">πέμψαντες</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="neani%2Fskwn">νεανίσκων</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fgein">ἄγειν</w> <w lemma="au%29to%5Cn">αὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29ke%2Fleuon">ἐκέλευον</w>, <w lemma="e%29a%5Cn">ἐὰν</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="e%28kw%5Cn">ἑκὼν</w> <w lemma="bou%2Flhtai">βούληται</w> <w lemma="peiqarxei%3Dn">πειθαρχεῖν</w>, <w lemma="ei%29">εἰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="mh%2F">μή</w>, <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="bi%2Fas">βίας</w>.
<w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fou">Πτολεμαίου</w> <w lemma="pareiselqo%2Fntos">παρεισελθόντος</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="oi%29ki%2Fan">οἰκίαν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dhlou%3Dntos">δηλοῦντος</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fti">ὅτι</w> <w lemma="kalei%3D">καλεῖ</w> <w lemma="%2Asko%2Fpan">Σκόπαν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="basileu%2Fs">βασιλεύς</w>, <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxa%5Cs">ἀρχὰς</w> <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="prosei%3Dxe">προσεῖχε</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="legome%2Fnois">λεγομένοις</w>, <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ble%2Fpwn">βλέπων</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="a%29tene%5Cs">ἀτενὲς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fmene">ἔμενε</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="plei%2Fw">πλείω</w> <w lemma="xro%2Fnon">χρόνον</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="a%29%5Cn">ἂν</w> <w lemma="ei%29">εἰ</w> <w lemma="prosanateino%2Fmenos">προσανατεινόμενος</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="qauma%2Fzwn">θαυμάζων</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="to%2Flman">τόλμαν</w>.
<w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29pelqw%5Cn">ἐπελθὼν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Dos">Πτολεμαῖος</w> <w lemma="qrase%2Fws">θρασέως</w> <w lemma="e%29pela%2Fbeto">ἐπελάβετο</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="xlamu%2Fdos">χλαμύδος</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w>, <w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="bohqei%3Dn">βοηθεῖν</w> <w lemma="h%29ci%2Fou">ἠξίου</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="paro%2Fntas">παρόντας</w>.
<w lemma="o%29%2Fntwn">ὄντων</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29selqo%2Fntwn">εἰσελθόντων</w> <w lemma="neani%2Fskwn">νεανίσκων</w> <w lemma="pleio%2Fnwn">πλειόνων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fcw">ἔξω</w> <w lemma="peri%2Fstasin">περίστασιν</w> <w lemma="diasafh%2Fsanto%2Fs">διασαφήσαντός</w> <w lemma="tinos">τινος</w>, <w lemma="sunei%2Fcas">συνείξας</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="parou%3Dsin">παροῦσιν</w> <w lemma="h%29kolou%2Fqei">ἠκολούθει</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="fi%2Flwn">φίλων</w>.
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<head><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Egypt&groupId=556&placeId=368">Egypt</a>: Fall of Scopas</head>Many people have a yearning for bold and glorious<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note103">Death of Scopas, See<foreign lang="la">supra,</foreign><ref target="b13c2" targOrder="U">13, 2</ref>;<ref target="b16c18" targOrder="U">16, 18</ref>, B. C. 196.</note>undertakings, but few dare actually attempt them. Yet Scopas had much fairer opportunities for a<pb n="247" />hazardous and bold career than Cleomenes. For the latter, though circumvented by his enemies, and reduced to depend upon such forces as his servants and friends could supply, yet left no chance untried, and tested every one to the best of his ability, valuing an honourable death more highly than a life of disgrace. But Scopas, with all the advantages of a formidable body of soldiers and of the excellent opportunity afforded by the youth of the king, by his own delays and halting counsels allowed himself to be circumvented. For having ascertained that he was holding a meeting of his partisans at his own house, and was consulting with them, Aristomenes sent some of the royal bodyguards and summoned him to the king's council. Whereupon Scopas was so infatuated that he was neither bold enough to carry out his designs, nor able to make up his mind to obey the king's summons,—which is in itself the most extreme step,—until Aristomenes, understanding the blunder he had made, caused soldiers and elephants to surround his house, and sent Ptolemy son of Eumenes in with some young men, with orders to bring him quietly if he would come, but, if not, by force. When Ptolemy entered the house and informed Scopas that the king summoned him, he refused at first to obey, but remained looking fixedly at Ptolemy, and for a long while preserved a threatening attitude as though he wondered at his audacity; and when Ptolemy came boldly up to him and took hold of his chlamys, he called on the bystanders to help him. But seeing that the number of young men who had accompanied Ptolemy into the house was large, and being informed by some one of the military array surrounding it outside, he yielded to circumstances, and went, accompanied by his friends, in obedience to the summons.
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