Polybius, Histories

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Book 33 - Chapter 15

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<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28hraklei%2Fdhs">Ἡρακλείδης</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fti">ἔτι</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="qerei%2Fas">θερείας</w> <w lemma="a%29kmazou%2Fshs">ἀκμαζούσης</w> <w lemma="parh%3Dn">παρῆν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fgwn">ἄγων</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Alaodi%2Fkhn">Λαοδίκην</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29ale%2Fcandron">Ἀλέξανδρον</w>.
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<w lemma="poiou%2Fmenos">ποιούμενος</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="parepidhmi%2Fan">παρεπιδημίαν</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="teratei%2Fas">τερατείας</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kakourgi%2Fas">κακουργίας</w> <w lemma="e%29nexro%2Fnize">ἐνεχρόνιζε</w>, <w lemma="kataskeuazo%2Fmenos">κατασκευαζόμενος</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhton">σύγκλητον</w>. — <w lemma="%2Akai%5C">Καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2A%29astumh%2Fdhs">Ἀστυμήδης</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28ro%2Fdios">Ῥόδιος</w>,
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<w lemma="presbeuth%5Cs">πρεσβευτὴς</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="nau%2Farxos">ναύαρχος</w> <w lemma="kaqestame%2Fnos">καθεσταμένος</w>, <w lemma="parelqw%5Cn">παρελθὼν</w> <w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="au%29th%3Ds">αὐτῆς</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhton">σύγκλητον</w> <w lemma="diele%2Fgeto">διελέγετο</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="pole%2Fmou">πολέμου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2Akrhtaiei%3Ds">Κρηταιεῖς</w>.
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<w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhtos">σύγκλητος</w> <w lemma="prose%2Fxousa">προσέχουσα</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="nou%3Dn">νοῦν</w> <w lemma="e%29pimelw%3Ds">ἐπιμελῶς</w> <w lemma="paraxrh%3Dma">παραχρῆμα</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="e%29cape%2Fsteile">ἐξαπέστειλε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Ako%2Finton">Κόιντον</w> <w lemma="lu%2Fsontas">λύσοντας</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="po%2Flemon">πόλεμον</w>.
<head>War Between <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> and Crete</head>Heracleides came to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> in the<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note28">Heracleides brings to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> Laodice, daughter of Antiochus Epiphanes, and his supposed son Alexander Balas.</note>middle of summer, bringing Laodice and Alexander, and stayed there a long time, employing all the arts of cunning and corruption to win the support of the Senate. . . .Astymedes of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> being appointed ambassador and<pb n="477" />navarch at the same time, came forward immediately and addressed the Senate on the war with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note29">The quarrel of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>.</note>The Senate listened with attention, and immediately appointed Quintus at the head of a commission to put an end to the war. . . .