<head lang="la">II. Res Graeciae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%5Cs">αὐτοὺς</w> <w lemma="kairou%5Cs">καιροὺς</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Dos">Πτολεμαῖος</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="basileu%2Fs">βασιλεύς</w>, <w lemma="boulo%2Fmenos">βουλόμενος</w> <w lemma="e%29mple%2Fkesqai">ἐμπλέκεσθαι</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqnei">ἔθνει</w>, <w lemma="diepe%2Fmyato">διεπέμψατο</w> <w lemma="presbeuth%2Fn">πρεσβευτήν</w>, <w lemma="e%29paggello%2Fmenos">ἐπαγγελλόμενος</w> <w lemma="dekanai+%2Fan">δεκαναΐαν</w> <w lemma="dw%2Fsein">δώσειν</w> <w lemma="e%29ntelh%3D">ἐντελῆ</w> <w lemma="penthkonthrikw%3Dn">πεντηκοντηρικῶν</w> <w lemma="ploi%2Fwn">πλοίων</w>.
<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%5C">Ἀχαιοὶ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="dokei%3Dn">δοκεῖν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="dwrea%5Cn">δωρεὰν</w> <w lemma="a%29ci%2Fan">ἀξίαν</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dnai">εἶναι</w> <w lemma="xa%2Fritos">χάριτος</w> <w lemma="a%29sme%2Fnws">ἀσμένως</w> <w lemma="a%29pede%2Fcanto">ἀπεδέξαντο</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29paggeli%2Fan">ἐπαγγελίαν</w>. [<w lemma="dokei%3D">δοκεῖ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="dapa%2Fnh">δαπάνη</w> <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="polu%5C">πολὺ</w> <w lemma="lei%2Fpein">λείπειν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="de%2Fka">δέκα</w> <w lemma="tala%2Fntwn">ταλάντων</w>].
<w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="bouleusa%2Fmenoi">βουλευσάμενοι</w> <w lemma="proexeiri%2Fsanto">προεχειρίσαντο</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="%2Aluko%2Frtan">Λυκόρταν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Apolu%2Fbion">Πολύβιον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="su%5Cn">σὺν</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Faraton">Ἄρατον</w>, <w lemma="ui%28o%5Cn">υἱὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29ara%2Ftou">Ἀράτου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Asikuwni%2Fou">Σικυωνίου</w>, <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="eu%29xaristh%2Fsontas">εὐχαριστήσοντας</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="basilei%3D">βασιλεῖ</w> <w lemma="peri%2F">περί</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fplwn">ὅπλων</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fteron">πρότερον</w> <w lemma="a%29pe%2Fsteile">ἀπέστειλε</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="nomi%2Fsmatos">νομίσματος</w>, <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="paralhyome%2Fnous">παραληψομένους</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="ploi%3Da">πλοῖα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fnoian">πρόνοιαν</w> <w lemma="poihsome%2Fnous">ποιησομένους</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="a%29pokomidh%3Ds">ἀποκομιδῆς</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3Dn">αὐτῶν</w>.
<w lemma="kate%2Fsthsan">κατέστησαν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="%2Aluko%2Frtan">Λυκόρταν</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="kairo%2Fn">καιρόν</w>, <w lemma="kaq%27">καθ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28%5Cn">ὃν</w> <w lemma="e%29poiei%3Dto">ἐποιεῖτο</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29nane%2Fwsin">ἀνανέωσιν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fas">συμμαχίας</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Dos">Πτολεμαῖος</w>, <w lemma="strathgou%3Dnta">στρατηγοῦντα</w> <w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="sunergh%3Dsai">συνεργῆσαι</w> <w lemma="filoti%2Fmws">φιλοτίμως</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w>,
<w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="%2Apolu%2Fbion">Πολύβιον</w>, <w lemma="new%2Fteron">νεώτερον</w> <w lemma="o%29%2Fnta">ὄντα</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="no%2Fmous">νόμους</w> <w lemma="h%28liki%2Fas">ἡλικίας</w>, <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="th%2Fn">τήν</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fan">συμμαχίαν</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="pate%2Fra">πατέρα</w> <w lemma="presbeu%2Fsanta">πρεσβεύσαντα</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="a%29nanew%2Fsasqai">ἀνανεώσασθαι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="dwrea%5Cn">δωρεὰν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fplwn">ὅπλων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="nomi%2Fsmatos">νομίσματος</w> <w lemma="a%29gagei%3Dn">ἀγαγεῖν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w>,
<w lemma="paraplhsi%2Fws">παραπλησίως</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Faraton">Ἄρατον</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="progonika%5Cs">προγονικὰς</w> <w lemma="susta%2Fseis">συστάσεις</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="basilei%2Fan">βασιλείαν</w>.
<w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="mh%5Cn">μὴν</w> <w lemma="sune%2Fbh">συνέβη</w> <w lemma="ge">γε</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="presbei%2Fan">πρεσβείαν</w> <w lemma="tau%2Fthn">ταύτην</w> <w lemma="e%29celqei%3Dn">ἐξελθεῖν</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="metalla%2Fcai">μεταλλάξαι</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="kairou%5Cs">καιροὺς</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftous">τούτους</w>. —
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<head>Murder of Apollonides At Sparta</head>About the same time king Ptolemy, wishing to make<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note9">Ptolemy Epiphanes sends a present to the Achaeans. Lycortas, Polybius, and Aratus sent to return thanks, B.C. 181.</note>friends with the Achaean league, sent an ambassador to them with an offer of a fleet of ten penteconters fully equipped; and the Achaeans, thinking the present worthy of their thanks, for the cost could not be much less than ten talents, gladly accepted the offer. Having come to this resolution, they selected Lycortas, Polybius, and Aratus, son of Aratus of Sicyon, to go on a mission to the king, partly to thank him for the arms which he had sent on a former occasion, and partly to receive the ships and make arrangements for bringing them across.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note10"><ref target="b22c12" targOrder="U">Bk. 22, ch. 12</ref>.</note>They appointed Lycortas, because, as Strategus at the time that Ptolemy renewed the alliance, he had worked energetically on the king's side; and Polybius, though below the legal age for acting as ambassador,<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note11">Perhaps thirty, which seems to have been the legal age for admission to political functions. See<ref target="b29c24" targOrder="U">29, 24</ref>.</note>because, as his father has been ambassador at the renewal of the alliance<pb n="339" />with Ptolemy, and had brought the present of arms and of money to the Achaeans; and Aratus, similarly, on account of his former intercourse with the king.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note12">Ptolemy Epiphanes poisoned in B. C. 181.</note>However, this mission never went after all, as Ptolemy died just at this time. . . .
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