Polybius, Histories

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Book 23 - Chapter 18

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<w lemma="e%29kbeblhko%2Fsin">ἐκβεβληκόσιν</w>. <w lemma="toiau%3Dta">τοιαῦτα</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="r%28hqe%2Fnta">ῥηθέντα</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%28kate%2Frwn">ἑκατέρων</w>. <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%5C">Ἀχαιοὶ</w> <w lemma="diakou%2Fsantes">διακούσαντες</w> <w lemma="a%29mfote%2Frwn">ἀμφοτέρων</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fkrinan">ἔκριναν</w> <w lemma="proslabe%2Fsqai">προσλαβέσθαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="po%2Flin">πόλιν</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="sth%2Flhs">στήλης</w> <w lemma="prografei%2Fshs">προγραφείσης</w> <w lemma="sunepoliteu%2Feto">συνεπολιτεύετο</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="%2Aspa%2Frth">Σπάρτη</w>,
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<w lemma="prosdecame%2Fnwn">προσδεξαμένων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="po%2Flei">πόλει</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftous">τούτους</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxai%2Fwn">ἀρχαίων</w> <w lemma="fuga%2Fdwn">φυγάδων</w>, <w lemma="o%28%2Fsoi">ὅσοι</w> <w lemma="mhde%5Cn">μηδὲν</w> <w lemma="e%29do%2Fkoun">ἐδόκουν</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fgnwmon">ἄγνωμον</w> <w lemma="pepoihke%2Fnai">πεποιηκέναι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqnous">ἔθνους</w>.
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<w lemma=""></w> <w lemma="%2Aoi%28">Οἱ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%5C">Ἀχαιοὶ</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="kurw%2Fsantes">κυρώσαντες</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="a%29pe%2Fsteilan">ἀπέστειλαν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Abi%2Fppon">Βίππον</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29argei%3Don">Ἀργεῖον</w>, <w lemma="diasafh%2Fsontas">διασαφήσοντας</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftw%7C">συγκλήτῳ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntwn">πάντων</w>.
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<w lemma="o%28moi%2Fws">ὁμοίως</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedaimo%2Fnioi">Λακεδαιμόνιοι</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Axai%2Frwna">Χαίρωνα</w> <w lemma="kate%2Fsthsan">κατέστησαν</w>.
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<w lemma="e%29cape%2Fsteilan">ἐξαπέστειλαν</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="fuga%2Fdes">φυγάδες</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aklh%3Dtin">Κλῆτιν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Adiakto%2Frion">Διακτόριον</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="sugkatasthsome%2Fnous">συγκαταστησομένους</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftw%7C">συγκλήτῳ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%2Fs">πρεσβευτάς</w>.
<head><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> Included In the League</head>Such were the arguments employed on either side.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note41"><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> admitted to the league.</note>The Achaeans, after listening to both, decided to admit the city, and accordingly the agreement was engraved on a tablet, and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> became a member of the Achaean league: the existing citizens having agreed to admit such of the old exiles as were not considered to have acted in a hostile spirit against the Achaeans. After confirming this arrangement the Achaeans sent Bippus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a> and others as ambassadors to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, to explain to the Senate what had been done in the matter. The Lacedaemonians also sent Chaeron and others; while the exiles too sent a mission led by Cletis Diactorius<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note42">This looks like a local name, but no place is known corresponding to it. A Diactorides of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> is mentioned in<bibl n="Hdt. 6.127" default="NO" valid="yes">Herodotus, 6, 127</bibl>; and perhaps, as Hultsch suggests, we ought to read "Cletis and Diactorius."</note>to oppose the Achaean ambassadors in the Senate.<pb />