<p rend="Plain Text">Antiochus receives the embassy of Ti. Gracchus (166)</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt, though it concerns a Roman embassy, is from the de legat. gent.; it follows close on the previous passage (cf. § 1) and belongs to the same res Asiae; the date is summer 166 (not 165, as in Broughton, i. 438). See p. 33.</p>
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<p rend="Plain Text">Roman decision about <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a> (166/5)</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt from de legat. gent. is the first surviving fragment from O1. 153, 3 = 166/5, and belongs to res Italiae (see p. 33).</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">After Eumenes' return to Pergamum (winter 167/6: 19. 1–14), the Galatian War developed further (cf. 1. 2 n.). Whether the victory over the Galatians in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phrygia&groupId=896&placeId=1611">Phrygia</a> occurred in 167 after Attalus' return from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, or in 166 after Eumenes' rebuff, is not clear, since Diod. xxxi. 14, which records it, comes from the exc. de uirt. et uit., where it follows Diod. xxxi. 9. 7 (Perseus' death) and precedes Diod. xxxi. 16–17 (games at Daphne and Gracchus' visit to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Syria&groupId=995&placeId=502">Syria</a>: cf. 25–27 above). Since the games at Daphne were in 166, Eumenes' victory could have been either in that or in the previous yearbut the arrival of a Galatian embassy in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> now (in 166/5) is in favour of 166. Eumenes' victory is probably celebrated in Insch. Perg. i. 165 (supplemented by the fragment published in AM, 1902, 90 no. 74: Eumenes and Attalus <w lang="el-GR">ἐνίκησαν παραταξάμενοι ἐν Φρυγίᾳ [. . . τὴν] πρὸς Γαλάτας [μάχην]</w> ); and it may also be referred to in OGIS, 299 (a Pergamene decree honouring the priestess Metris : it is dated to 165, cf. Robert, BCH, 1930, 337; Holleaux, tudes, ii. 156 n. 1), which mentions Eumenes' <w lang="el-GR">μείζονα εὐημερήματα</w>. But Eumenes did not obtain the title of Soter now (as was once thought) but before 183 (cf. iii. 3. 6 n.; xxii. 20. 1-8 n.).</p>
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">συνεχώρησαν τὴν αὐτονομίαν</w>:</emph>
sc. the Senate. This decision deprived Eumenes of much of the advantage the victory might have brought
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him; and the following winter Prusias could accuse him (30. 2) of failing to observe it.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῶν ἀγώνων</w>:</emph>
described in 25–26.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οἱ περὶ τὸν</w> T<w lang="el-GR">εβέριον</w>:</emph>
Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, cos. 177; cf. xxv. 1. 1 n., 4. 1 n.; for this embassy cf. Diod. xxxi. 17 (Polybian). Gelzer, Kl. schr. iii. 166–7, suggests that P. drew his knowledge of this embassy from the Menochares who came as Seleucid envoy to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> in 159 (xxxii. 2. 1–3) and had earlier had dealings with Gracchus in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cappadocia&groupId=435&placeId=343">Cappadocia</a> (xxxi. 15. 13); cf. Pdech, Mthode, 371 n. P.'s picture of Gracchus as a nave diplomatist (cf. 30. 7–8) may go back to this source; certainly one may doubt whether Gracchus was as simple and Antiochus as Machiavellian as they appear here.
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