<w lemma="%2A%29anti%2Foxos">Ἀντίοχος</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29epifanh%5Cs">Ἐπιφανὴς</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="klhqei%2Fs">κληθείς</w>, <w lemma="%2A%29epimanh%5Cs">Ἐπιμανὴς</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fcewn">πράξεων</w> <w lemma="o%29nomasqei%2Fs">ὀνομασθείς</w> <gap /><w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="ou%28%3D">οὗ</w> <w lemma="fhsi">φησι</w> <w lemma="%2Apolu%2Fbios">Πολύβιος</w> <w lemma="ta%2Fde">τάδε</w>, <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="a%29podidra%2Fskwn">ἀποδιδράσκων</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="au%29lh%3Ds">αὐλῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29ni%2Fote">ἐνίοτε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="qerapeu%2Fontas">θεραπεύοντας</w>, <w lemma="ou%28%3D">οὗ</w> <w lemma="tu%2Fxoi">τύχοι</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="po%2Flews">πόλεως</w>, <w lemma="a%29lu%2Fwn">ἀλύων</w> <w lemma="e%29fai%2Fneto">ἐφαίνετο</w> <w lemma="deu%2Fteros">δεύτερος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tri%2Ftos">τρίτος</w>.
<w lemma="ma%2Flista">μάλιστα</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="a%29rgurokopei%2Fois">ἀργυροκοπείοις</w> <w lemma="eu%28ri%2Fsketo">εὑρίσκετο</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="xrusoxoei%2Fois">χρυσοχοείοις</w>, <w lemma="eu%28rhsilogw%3Dn">εὑρησιλογῶν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="filotexnw%3Dn">φιλοτεχνῶν</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="toreuta%5Cs">τορευτὰς</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fllous">ἄλλους</w> <w lemma="texni%2Ftas">τεχνίτας</w>.
<w lemma="e%29%2Fpeita">ἔπειτα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="dhmotw%3Dn">δημοτῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29nqrw%2Fpwn">ἀνθρώπων</w> <w lemma="sugkatabai%2Fnwn">συγκαταβαίνων</w> <w lemma="w%28mi%2Flei">ὡμίλει</w>, <w lemma="w%28%3D%7C">ᾧ</w> <w lemma="tu%2Fxoi">τύχοι</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="parepidhmou%2Fntwn">παρεπιδημούντων</w> <w lemma="sune%2Fpine">συνέπινε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="eu%29telesta%2Ftwn">εὐτελεστάτων</w>.
<w lemma="o%28%2Fte">ὅτε</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="newte%2Frwn">νεωτέρων</w> <w lemma="ai%29%2Fsqoito%2F">αἴσθοιτό</w> <w lemma="tinas">τινας</w> <w lemma="suneuwxoume%2Fnous">συνευωχουμένους</w>, <w lemma="ou%29demi%2Fan">οὐδεμίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fmfasin">ἔμφασιν</w> <w lemma="poih%2Fsas">ποιήσας</w> <w lemma="parh%3Dn">παρῆν</w> <w lemma="e%29pikwma%2Fzwn">ἐπικωμάζων</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="kerati%2Fou">κερατίου</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sumfwni%2Fas">συμφωνίας</w>, <w lemma="w%28%2Fste">ὥστε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="pollou%5Cs">πολλοὺς</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="para%2Fdocon">παράδοξον</w> <w lemma="a%29fistame%2Fnous">ἀφισταμένους</w> <w lemma="feu%2Fgein">φεύγειν</w>.
<w lemma="polla%2Fkis">πολλάκις</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="basilikh%5Cn">βασιλικὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29poqe%2Fmenos">ἀποθέμενος</w> <w lemma="e%29sqh%3Dta">ἐσθῆτα</w> <w lemma="th%2Fbennan">τήβενναν</w> <w lemma="a%29nalabw%5Cn">ἀναλαβὼν</w> <w lemma="perih%2F%7Cei">περιῄει</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29gora%5Cn">ἀγορὰν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxairesia%2Fzwn">ἀρχαιρεσιάζων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="deciou%2Fmenos">δεξιούμενος</w>, <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="periptu%2Fsswn">περιπτύσσων</w> <w lemma="pareka%2Flei">παρεκάλει</w> <w lemma="fe%2Frein">φέρειν</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3D%7C">αὑτῷ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="yh%3Dfon">ψῆφον</w>, <w lemma="pote%5C">ποτὲ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="a%29gorano%2Fmos">ἀγορανόμος</w> <w lemma="ge%2Fnhtai">γένηται</w>, <w lemma="pote%5C">ποτὲ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="dh%2Fmarxos">δήμαρχος</w>.
<w lemma="tuxw%5Cn">τυχὼν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%3Ds">ἀρχῆς</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kaqi%2Fsas">καθίσας</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29lefa%2Fntinon">ἐλεφάντινον</w> <w lemma="di%2Ffron">δίφρον</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fois">Ῥωμαίοις</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqos">ἔθος</w> <w lemma="dih%2Fkoue">διήκουε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29gora%5Cn">ἀγορὰν</w> <w lemma="ginome%2Fnwn">γινομένων</w> <w lemma="sunallagma%2Ftwn">συναλλαγμάτων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="die%2Fkrine">διέκρινε</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="pollh%3Ds">πολλῆς</w> <w lemma="spoudh%3Ds">σπουδῆς</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="proqumi%2Fas">προθυμίας</w>. <w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="a%29pori%2Fan">ἀπορίαν</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dge">ἦγε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29nqrw%2Fpwn">ἀνθρώπων</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29pieikei%3Ds:">ἐπιεικεῖς·</w>
<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="a%29felh%3D">ἀφελῆ</w> <w lemma="tina">τινα</w> <w lemma="au%29to%5Cn">αὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dnai">εἶναι</w> <w lemma="u%28pela%2Fmbanon">ὑπελάμβανον</w>, <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="maino%2Fmenon">μαινόμενον</w>. <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="dwrea%5Cs">δωρεὰς</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="paraplh%2Fsios:">παραπλήσιος·</w> <w lemma="e%29di%2Fdou">ἐδίδου</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="a%29straga%2Flous">ἀστραγάλους</w> <w lemma="dorkadei%2Fous">δορκαδείους</w>,
<w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="foinikobala%2Fnous">φοινικοβαλάνους</w>, <w lemma="a%29%2Fllois">ἄλλοις</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="xrusi%2Fon">χρυσίον</w>.
<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="a%29panth%2Fsews">ἀπαντήσεως</w> <w lemma="de%2F">δέ</w> <w lemma="tisin">τισιν</w> <w lemma="e%29ntugxa%2Fnwn">ἐντυγχάνων</w>, <w lemma="ou%28%5Cs">οὓς</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="e%28wra%2Fkei">ἑωράκει</w> <w lemma="pote%2F">ποτέ</w>, <w lemma="e%29di%2Fdou">ἐδίδου</w> <w lemma="dwrea%5Cs">δωρεὰς</w> <w lemma="a%29prosdokh%2Ftous">ἀπροσδοκήτους</w>.
<w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="po%2Fleis">πόλεις</w> <w lemma="qusi%2Fais">θυσίαις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="qeou%5Cs">θεοὺς</w> <w lemma="timai%3Ds">τιμαῖς</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="u%28pere%2Fballe">ὑπερέβαλλε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="bebasileuko%2Ftas">βεβασιλευκότας</w>.
<w lemma="tou%3Dto">τοῦτο</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fn">ἄν</w> <w lemma="tis">τις</w> <w lemma="tekmh%2Fraito">τεκμήραιτο</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fk">ἔκ</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aqhnai%2Fois">Ἀθηναίοις</w> <w lemma="%2A%29olumpiei%2Fou">Ὀλυμπιείου</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="%2Adh%2Flw%7C">Δήλῳ</w> <w lemma="bwmo%5Cn">βωμὸν</w> <w lemma="a%29ndria%2Fntwn">ἀνδριάντων</w>.
<w lemma="e%29lou%2Feto">ἐλούετο</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="ka%29n">κἀν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="dhmosi%2Fois">δημοσίοις</w> <w lemma="balanei%2Fois">βαλανείοις</w>, <w lemma="o%28%2Fte">ὅτε</w> <w lemma="dhmotw%3Dn">δημοτῶν</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="balanei%3Da">βαλανεῖα</w> <w lemma="peplhrwme%2Fna">πεπληρωμένα</w>, <w lemma="kerami%2Fwn">κεραμίων</w> <w lemma="ei%29sferome%2Fnwn">εἰσφερομένων</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w> <w lemma="mu%2Frwn">μύρων</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="polutelesta%2Ftwn">πολυτελεστάτων</w>.
<w lemma="o%28%2Fte">ὅτε</w> <w lemma="kai%2F">καί</w> <w lemma="tinos">τινος</w> <w lemma="ei%29po%2Fntos">εἰπόντος</w> <w lemma="“%2Amaka%2Frioi%2F">“Μακάριοί</w> <w lemma="e%29ste">ἐστε</w> <w lemma="u%28mei%3Ds">ὑμεῖς</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="basilei%3Ds">βασιλεῖς</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="xrw%2Fmenoi">χρώμενοι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="o%29dwdo%2Ftes">ὀδωδότες</w> <w lemma="h%28du%2F”">ἡδύ”</w> [<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w>] <w lemma="mhde%5Cn">μηδὲν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fnqrwpon">ἄνθρωπον</w> <w lemma="proseipw%2Fn">προσειπών</w>, <w lemma="o%28%2Fpou">ὅπου</w> '<w lemma="kei%3Dnos">κεῖνος</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="e%28ch%3Ds">ἑξῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29lou%3Dto">ἐλοῦτο</w>, <w lemma="e%29peiselqw%5Cn">ἐπεισελθὼν</w> <w lemma="e%29poi%2Fhsen">ἐποίησεν</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%3D">αὐτοῦ</w> <w lemma="kataxuqh%3Dnai">καταχυθῆναι</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="kefalh%3Ds">κεφαλῆς</w> <w lemma="me%2Fgiston">μέγιστον</w> <w lemma="kera%2Fmion">κεράμιον</w> <w lemma="polutelesta%2Ftou">πολυτελεστάτου</w> <w lemma="mu%2Frou">μύρου</w>, <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="stakth%3Ds">στακτῆς</w> <w lemma="kaloume%2Fnhs">καλουμένης</w>,
<w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="pa%2Fntas">πάντας</w> <w lemma="a%29nasta%2Fntas">ἀναστάντας</w> <w lemma="kuli%2Fesqai">κυλίεσθαι</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="louome%2Fnous">λουομένους</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="mu%2Frw%7C">μύρῳ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="glisxro%2Fthta">γλισχρότητα</w> <w lemma="katapi%2Fptontas">καταπίπτοντας</w> <w lemma="ge%2Flwta">γέλωτα</w> <w lemma="pare%2Fxein">παρέχειν</w>, <w lemma="kaqa%2Fper">καθάπερ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="au%29to%5Cn">αὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fa">βασιλέα</w>.
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<head>Antiochus Epiphanes</head>ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, nicknamed from his actions<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note1">Antiochus Epiphanes, B. C. 175-164.</note>Epimanes (the Madman), would sometimes steal from the court, avoiding his attendants, and appear roaming wildly about in any chance part of the city with one or two companions. His favourite place to be found was the shops of the silversmiths or goldsmiths, chatting and discussing questions of art with the workers in relief and other artists; at another time he would join groups of the people of the town and converse with any one he came across, and would drink with foreign visitors of the humblest description. Whenever he found any young men carousing together he would come to the place without giving notice, with fife and band, like a rout of revellers, and often by his unexpected appearance cause the guests to rise and run away. He would often also lay aside his royal robes, and, putting on a tebenna,<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note2">This word, of unknown origin, seems to be used here for the toga, or some dress equivalent to it. See<ref target="b10c4" targOrder="U">10, 4</ref>.</note>go round the market-place as though a candidate for office, shaking hands and embracing various<pb n="354" />people whom he intreated to vote for him, sometime as aedile, and sometimes as tribune. And when he got the office and took his seat on an ivory curule chair, after the fashion of the Romans, he heard law cases which came on in the agora, and decided them with the utmost seriousness and attention. This conduct was very embarrassing to respectable people, some of whom regarded him as a good natured easy-going man, and others as a madman. In regard to making presents, too, his behaviour was on a par with this. Some he presented with dice made of gazelle horn, some with dates, others with gold. There were even instances of his making unexpected presents to men whom he met casually, and whom he had never seen before. In regard to public sacrifices and the honours paid to the gods, he surpassed all his predecessors on the throne; as witness the Olympieium at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a> and the statues placed round the altar at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Delos&groupId=533&placeId=1004">Delos</a>. He used also to bathe in the public baths, when they were full of the townspeople, pots of the most expensive unguents being brought in for him; and on one occasion on some one saying, "Lucky fellows you kings, to use such things and smell so sweet!" without saying a word to the man, he waited till he was bathing the next day, and then coming into the bath caused a pot of the largest size and of the most costly kind of unguent called<foreign lang="la">stacte</foreign>to be poured over his head, so that there was a general rush of the bathers to roll themselves in it; and when they all tumbled down, the king himself among them, from its stickiness, there was loud laughter. . . .<pb />
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