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Book 9 - Chapter 44

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<head lang="la">IX. Fragmenta Incertae Sedis</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="met%27">μετ᾽</w> <w lemma="eu%29noi%2Fas">εὐνοίας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="proqumi%2Fas">προθυμίας</w> <w lemma="e%29mbai%2Fnontas">ἐμβαίνοντας</w> <w lemma="ou%29d%27">οὐδ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29p%27">ἐπ᾽</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3Dn">αὐτῶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29ko%2Fs">εἰκός</w> <w lemma="e%29sti">ἐστι</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Frgwn">ἔργων</w> <w lemma="a%29lhqei%3Ds">ἀληθεῖς</w> <w lemma="ei%29%3Dnai">εἶναι</w> <w lemma="summa%2Fxous">συμμάχους</w>.
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<w lemma=""></w> <w lemma="%2Akai%5C">Καὶ</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fstin">ἔστιν</w> <w lemma="a%29lhqe%5Cs">ἀληθὲς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="polla%2Fkis">πολλάκις</w> <w lemma="u%28f%27">ὑφ᾽</w> <w lemma="h%28mw%3Dn">ἡμῶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29rhme%2Fnon">εἰρημένον</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="ou%29x">οὐχ</w> <w lemma="oi%28%3Do%2Fn">οἷόν</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="perilabei%3Dn">περιλαβεῖν</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5C">οὐδὲ</w> <w lemma="sunqea%2Fsasqai">συνθεάσασθαι</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="yuxh%3D%7C">ψυχῇ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="ka%2Flliston">κάλλιστον</w> <w lemma="qe%2Fama">θέαμα</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="gegono%2Ftwn">γεγονότων</w>, <w lemma="le%2Fgw">λέγω</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Flwn">ὅλων</w> <w lemma="oi%29konomi%2Fan">οἰκονομίαν</w>, <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="me%2Fros">μέρος</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fceis">πράξεις</w> <w lemma="grafo%2Fntwn">γραφόντων</w>.
<head>Embassy from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> to Ptolemy</head>The Romans sent ambassadors to Ptolemy, wishing<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note83">M. Atilius and Manius Glabrio sent to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Alexandria&groupId=1063&placeId=1868">Alexandria</a> with presents to Ptolemy Philopator and Queen Cleopatra.<bibl n="Liv. 27.4" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 27, 4</bibl>, B. C. 210.</note>to be supplied with corn, as they were suffering from a great scarcity of it at home; and, moreover, when all <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> had been laid waste by the enemy's troops up to the gates of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, and when all supplies from abroad were stopped by the fact that war was raging, and armies encamped, in all parts of the world except in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Egypt&groupId=556&placeId=368">Egypt</a>. In fact the scarcity at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> had come to such a<pb n="602" />pitch, that a Sicilian medimnus was sold for fifteen drachmae.<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note84">That is, 10s. 3 3/4d. for about a bushel and a half. See on<ref target="b2c15" targOrder="U">2, 15</ref>.</note>But in spite of this distress the Romans did not relax in their attention to the war.<pb />

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Overview
9.43.0 - 9.45.0
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9.44.2 - 9.44.2
<p rend="Plain Text">Universal history: see iii. 32, viii. 2. 1–11; Vol. I, p. 9. For <w lang="el-GR">τὸ κάλλιστον θέαμα</w> cf. i. 4. 4 n., <w lang="el-GR">τὸ κάλλιστον ἅμα δ᾿ ὠφελιμώτατον ἐπιτήδευμα τῆς τύχης</w>.</p>
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9.44.1 - 9.44.1
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τοὺς . . . ἐμβαίνοντας</w>:</emph> <w lang="el-GR">ἐμβαίνειν</w> is 'to enter upon' a war, or other activity; here war seems to be implied. </p>

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