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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 · 2026-11-08
Cassander settles the Autariatae, while Antigonus' general Ptolemy defects to Cassander. Ptolemy of Egypt also organizes opposition to Antigonus, who dispatches his sons to counter these actions successfully.
κατὰ δὲ τὴν Μακεδονίαν Κάσανδρος μὲν βοηθήσας Αὐδολέοντι τῷ Παιόνων βασιλεῖ διαπολεμοῦντι πρὸς Αὐταριάτας, τοῦτον μὲν ἐκ τῶν κινδύνων ἐρρύσατο, τοὺς δὲ Αὐταριάτας σὺν τοῖς ἀκολουθοῦσι παισὶ καὶ γυναιξὶν ὄντας εἰς δισμυρίους κατῴκισεν παρὰ τὸ καλούμενον Ὀρβηλὸν ὄρος.
In Macedonia, Cassander, having aided Audoleon, the king of the Paeonians, who was waging war against the Autariatae, rescued him from his dangers, and settled the Autariatae, who with the children and women accompanying them numbered about twenty thousand, near the mountain called Orbelus.
τούτου δὲ περὶ ταῦτʼ ὄντος κατὰ μὲν τὴν Πελοπόννησον Πτολεμαῖος ὁ στρατηγὸς Ἀντιγόνου δυνάμεις πεπιστευμένος1 καὶ τῷ δυνάστῃ προσκόψας ὡς οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν τιμώμενος2 Ἀντιγόνου μὲν ἀπέστη, πρὸς δὲ Κάσανδρον συμμαχίαν ἐποιήσατο. καταλελοιπὼς δὲ τῆς ἐφʼ Ἑλλησπόντῳ σατραπείας ἐπιστάτην Φοίνικα, ἕνα τῶν πιστοτάτων φίλων, ἀπέστειλεν αὐτῷ στρατιώτας, ἀξιῶν διαφυλάττειν τὰ φρούρια καὶ τὰς πόλεις καὶ μὴ προσέχειν Ἀντιγόνῳ.
While he was occupied with these matters, in the Peloponnese, the general Ptolemy, who had been entrusted with forces by Antigonus, having clashed with the ruler because he felt he was not being honored according to his worth, revolted from Antigonus and made an alliance with Cassander. Having left Phoenix, one of his most faithful friends, as administrator of the satrapy on the Hellespont, he sent soldiers to him, requesting him to guard the garrisons and the cities and not to pay attention to Antigonus.
τῶν δὲ κοινῶν συνθηκῶν τοῖς ἡγεμόσι περιεχουσῶν ἐλευθέρας ἀφεῖσθαι τὰς Ἑλληνίδας πόλεις, οἱ περὶ Πτολεμαῖον τὸν Αἰγύπτου δυνάστην,3 ἐγκαλέσαντες Ἀντιγόνῳ διότι φρουραῖς τινας διείληφε τῶν πόλεων, πολεμεῖν παρεσκευάζοντο. καὶ τὴν μὲν δύναμιν ἐξαποστείλας Πτολεμαῖος καὶ στρατηγὸν Λεωνίδην τὰς ἐν τῇ τραχείᾳ Κιλικίᾳ πόλεις οὔσας ὑπʼ Ἀντίγονον ἐχειρώσατο, διεπέμπετο δὲ καὶ εἰς τὰς ὑπὸ Κάσανδρον καὶ Λυσίμαχον πόλεις, ἀξιῶν συμφρονεῖν ἑαυτῷ καὶ κωλύειν Ἀντίγονον ἰσχυρὸν γίνεσθαι.
Since the common treaty among the leaders stipulated that the Greek cities were to be left free, those around Ptolemy, the ruler of Egypt, having accused Antigonus because he had occupied some of the cities with garrisons, prepared to wage war. And Ptolemy, having sent out the force and the general Leonidas, subdued the cities in rugged Cilicia that were under Antigonus, and also sent messengers to the cities under Cassander and Lysimachus, requesting them to be of the same mind as himself and to prevent Antigonus from becoming strong.
ὁ δʼ Ἀντίγονος τῶν υἱῶν Φίλιππον μὲν τὸν νεώτερον ἐξέπεμψεν ἐφʼ Ἑλλήσποντον, διαπολεμήσοντα4 Φοίνικι καὶ τοῖς ἀφεστηκόσι, Δημήτριον δʼ ἐπὶ Κιλικίαν, ὃς ἐνεργὸν ποιησάμενος τὴν στρατείαν ἐνίκησε τοὺς τοῦ Πτολεμαίου στρατηγοὺς καὶ τὰς πόλεις ἀνεκτήσατο.
But Antigonus sent Philip, the younger of his sons, to the Hellespont to wage war against Phoenix and the revolters, and Demetrius to Cilicia, who, having made his campaign active, defeated Ptolemy’s generals and recovered the cities.
- 20.19.2δυνάμεις πεπιστευμένος
This is a passive construction of the active phrase "to entrust something (accusative) to someone (dative)" (πιστεύω τινί τι). In the passive voice, the person who was in the dative case becomes the subject, while the thing in the accusative remains in the accusative case (δυνάμεις) after the passive participle.
- 20.19.2ὡς οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν τιμώμενος
The conjunction ὡς is used with the present passive participle τιμώμενος to express the subjective reason or belief of the subject of the main clause ("because he thought he was not being honored").
- 20.19.3οἱ περὶ Πτολεμαῖον τὸν Αἰγύπτου δυνάστην
The phrase "οἱ περί + accusative" means "Ptolemy and his followers." Although the subject and the participle ἐγκαλέσαντες are plural, it practically refers to Ptolemy, the ruler of Egypt, as the leader of this faction.
- 20.19.5διαπολεμήσοντα
The future active participle expresses purpose ("to wage war against") and indicates the intention behind the preceding verb ἐξέπεμψεν ("sent out").