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- Diodorus Siculus. Diodori Bibliotheca Historica. Vols. 4-5 (partial). Bekker, Immanuel; Dindorf, Ludwig; Fischer, Curt Theodor; editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903-1906.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Antigonus rejects the demands of Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Cassander for territorial concessions, and both sides prepare for war. Antigonus dispatches envoys and forces to strategic areas and establishes a swift communication system across his territories.
προάγοντος δʼ εἰς τὴν ἄνω Συρίαν Ἀντιγόνου παρεγένοντο πρέσβεις παρά τε Πτολεμαίου καὶ Λυσιμάχου καὶ Κασάνδρου. οὗτοι δʼ εἰσαχθέντες εἰς τὸ συνέδριον ἠξίουν Καππαδοκίαν μὲν καὶ Λυκίαν Κασάνδρῳ δοθῆναι, Φρυγίαν δὲ τὴν ἐφʼ Ἑλλησπόντῳ Λυσιμάχῳ, Συρίαν δὲ πᾶσαν Πτολεμαίῳ, Βαβυλωνίαν δὲ Σελεύκῳ, τῶν δὲ θησαυρῶν, οὓς παρέλαβεν μετὰ τὴν πρὸς Εὐμενῆ μάχην, ποιήσασθαι μερισμόν·1 καὶ γὰρ αὐτοὺς κεκοινωνηκέναι τοῦ πολέμου. εἰ δὲ μηδὲν τούτων ποιήσει, συστάντες ἅπαντες ἔφασαν πολεμήσειν αὐτῷ.
While Antigonus was advancing into Upper Syria, ambassadors arrived from Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Cassander. These, being introduced into the council, demanded that Cappadocia and Lycia be given to Cassander, Phrygia on the Hellespont to Lysimachus, all Syria to Ptolemy, and Babylonia to Seleucus, and that he make a division of the treasures which he had taken over after the battle against Eumenes; for they too had shared in the war. If he would do none of these things, they declared that they would all unite and make war against him.
τοῦ δʼ Ἀντιγόνου τραχύτερον ἀποκριναμένου καὶ τὰ πρὸς πόλεμον εἰπόντος παρασκευάζεσθαι2 συνέβη τοὺς πρέσβεις ἀπράκτους ἐπανελθεῖν. μετὰ δὲ ταῦθʼ οἱ μὲν περὶ Πτολεμαῖον καὶ Λυσίμαχον, ἔτι δὲ Κάσανδρον συμμαχίαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ποιησάμενοι δυνάμεις τε συνῆγον καὶ παρασκευὰς ὅπλων τε καὶ βελῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν χρησίμων ἐποίουν·
But when Antigonus answered rather harshly and told them to prepare for war, it happened that the ambassadors returned without having accomplished anything. After this, those around Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and also Cassander, having made an alliance with one another, began to gather forces and to make preparations of arms, missiles, and other useful things.
Ἀντίγονος δὲ ὁρῶν ἐφʼ ἑαυτὸν συνεστηκότας πολλοὺς καὶ μεγάλους τοῖς ἀξιώμασιν ἄνδρας καὶ συλλογιζόμενος τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ φυομένου πολέμου τά τʼ ἔθνη καὶ πόλεις καὶ δυνάστας προσεκαλεῖτο εἰς συμμαχίαν.
Antigonus, seeing that many men great in dignity were united against him, and calculating the magnitude of the growing war, began to call nations, cities, and dynasts into alliance.
Ἀγησίλαον μὲν οὖν πρὸς τοὺς ἐν Κύπρῳ βασιλεῖς, εἰς δὲ Ῥόδον Ἰδομενέα καὶ Μοσχίωνα, Πτολεμαῖον δὲ τὸν ἀδελφιδοῦν μετὰ δυνάμεως εἰς Καππαδοκίαν ἀπέστειλεν, ἵνα λύσῃ μὲν Ἀμισσοῦ τὴν πολιορκίαν καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ Κασάνδρου πεμφθέντας εἰς Καππαδοκίαν ἐκβάλῃ πάντας, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ὅπως παραγενόμενος εἰς Ἑλλήσποντον ἐφεδρεύῃ τοῖς περὶ Κάσανδρον, ἂν ἐπιχειρῇ διαβαίνειν ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης.
Accordingly, he dispatched Agesilaus to the kings in Cyprus, Idomeneus and Moschion to Rhodes, and his nephew Ptolemy with a force into Cappadocia, in order that he might raise the siege of Amisus and expel all those who had been sent into Cappadocia by Cassander, and furthermore, that upon arriving at the Hellespont, he might watch those around Cassander if he should attempt to cross from Europe.
Ἀριστόδημον δὲ τὸν Μιλήσιον εἰς Πελοπόννησον ἐξέπεμψεν ἔχοντα χίλια τάλαντα· τούτῳ δὲ συνετέτακτο3 συνθέσθαι φιλίαν πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Πολυπέρχοντα καὶ ξενολογήσαντα τοὺς ἱκανοὺς διαπολεμεῖν Κασάνδρῳ. αὐτὸς δὲ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἀσίαν, ἧς ἦν κύριος, διέλαβε πυρσοῖς καὶ βυβλιαφόροις, δι’ ὧν ὀξέως ἤμελλεν ὑπηρετεῖσθαι πάντα.
He also sent Aristodemus the Milesian to the Peloponnese with a thousand talents; and to this man it had been commanded to make a friendship with Alexander and Polysperchon, and having enlisted sufficient mercenaries, to wage war against Cassander. He himself divided the whole of Asia, of which he was master, with beacons and letter-carriers, through whom everything was to be quickly served.
- 19.57.1ποιήσασθαι μερισμόν
An infinitive phrase governed by the main verb ἠξίουν ("demanded"). The middle infinitive ποιήσασθαι forms an active sense with Antigonus as the implied subject, meaning "that he should make a division" of the treasures.
- 19.57.2εἰπόντος παρασκευάζεσθαι
The participle εἰπόντος (part of the genitive absolute) is followed by the infinitive παρασκευάζεσθαι, which gives the verb of speaking the force of a command or exhortation ("telling them to prepare").
- 19.57.5συνετέτακτο
The pluperfect passive third person singular of συντάττω ("command"). Used impersonally with the dative τούτῳ ("to him"), with the following infinitive clauses (συνθέσθαι ... καὶ ... διαπολεμεῖν) acting as the subject.