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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
After Titus invites the other representatives to state their demands, the envoys of Attalus, Rhodes, the Achaeans, and the Aetolians successively present their requirements to Philip, including the restoration of captured territories and temples.
ταῦτα δʼ εἰπὼν ὁ Τίτος αὐτὸς μὲν ἐπέσχε, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐπιστραφεὶς ἐκέλευε λέγειν ἅπερ ἑκάστοις αὐτῶν οἱ πέμψαντες εἴησαν ἐντεταλμένοι.1
Having said this, Titus himself stopped speaking, and turning to the others, urged them to state what instructions those who sent them had given to each of them.
πρῶτος δὲ Διονυσόδωρος ὁ παρʼ Ἀττάλου μεταλαβὼν τὸν λόγον τάς τε ναῦς ἔφη δεῖν αὐτὸν ἀποδοῦναι τὰς τοῦ βασιλέως τὰς γενομένας αἰχμαλώτους ἐν τῇ περὶ Χίον ναυμαχίᾳ καὶ τοὺς ἅμα ταύταις ἄνδρας, ἀποκαταστῆσαι δὲ καὶ τὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἱερὸν ἀκέραιον καὶ τὸ Νικηφόριον, ἃ κατέφθειρε.
First, Dionysodorus, the representative from Attalus, taking up the word, said that Philip must restore the king’s ships captured in the naval battle around Chios and the men who were on them, and also restore to their undamaged state the temple of Aphrodite and the Nicephorium which he had destroyed.
μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ὁ τῶν Ῥοδίων ναύαρχος Ἀκεσίμβροτος τῆς μὲν Περαίας ἐκέλευεν ἐκχωρεῖν τὸν Φίλιππον, ἧς αὐτῶν παρῄρηται,2 τὰς δὲ φρουρὰς ἐξάγειν ἐξ Ἰασοῦ καὶ Βαργυλίων καὶ τῆς Εὐρωμέων πόλεως, ἀποκαταστῆσαι δὲ καὶ Περινθίους εἰς τὴν Βυζαντίων συμπολιτείαν, παραχωρεῖν δὲ καὶ Σηστοῦ καὶ Ἀβύδου καὶ τῶν ἐμπορίων καὶ λιμένων τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν ἁπάντων.
After him, Acesimbrotus, the admiral of the Rhodians, urged Philip to evacuate the Peraea, which he had taken from them, and to withdraw his garrisons from Iasus, Bargylia, and the city of Euromus. He also demanded that he restore the Perinthians to their political incorporation with the Byzantines, and surrender Sestos, Abydos, and all the commercial centers and harbors along Asia.
ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς Ῥοδίοις3 Ἀχαιοὶ Κόρινθον ἀπῄτουν καὶ τὴν τῶν Ἀργείων πόλιν ἀβλαβῆ.
Following the Rhodians, the Achaeans demanded Corinth and the city of the Argives undamaged.
μετὰ δὲ τούτους Αἰτωλοὶ πρῶτον μὲν τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἁπάσης ἐκέλευον ἐξίστασθαι, καθάπερ καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι, δεύτερον αὑτοῖς ἀποκαθιστάναι τὰς πόλεις ἀβλαβεῖς τὰς πρότερον μετασχούσας τῆς τῶν Αἰτωλῶν συμπολιτείας.
After these, the Aetolians urged him, first, to withdraw from the whole of Greece, just as the Romans also demanded, and secondly, to restore to them undamaged those cities which had previously participated in the Aetolian League.
- 18.2.1εἴησαν ἐντεταλμένοι
Pluperfect optative in a relative clause depending on a past leading verb (ἐκέλευε), functioning as an optative of indirect discourse. It represents instructions that had been given beforehand by those who sent them.
- 18.2.3ἧς αὐτῶν παρῄρηται
The relative pronoun ἧς is attracted into the genitive case by its antecedent τῆς Περαίας, standing instead of the accusative ἥν, which would be the direct object of the verb παρῄρηται (historical present of παραιρέομαι, which takes a double accusative). The genitive personal pronoun αὐτῶν functions as a genitive of separation ('from them').
- 18.2.5ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς Ῥοδίοις
The preposition ἐπί with the dative here denotes succession in time or order ('after the Rhodians').