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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Athenaeus, the brother of Attalus, ravaged Prusias' territory with an allied fleet, prompting the Roman Senate to dispatch new commissioners who successfully negotiated a peace treaty between the two kings.
κατὰ δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς καιροὺς Ἀθήναιος κατέπλευσε ναυσὶ καταφράκτοις ὀγδοήκοντα·
At about the same time, Athenaeus sailed in with eighty decked ships;
ὧν1 αἱ πέντε μὲν τετρήρεις ἦσαν Ῥοδίων τῶν ἀποσταλεισῶν εἰς τὸν Κρητικὸν πόλεμον, εἴκοσι δὲ Κυζικηνῶν, ἑπτὰ δʼ ἐπὶ ταῖς εἴκοσι τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων.
of which five were quadriremes belonging to the Rhodians who had been dispatched to the Cretan War, twenty belonged to the Cyzicenes, twenty-seven to Attalus and his followers, and the remainder to the other allies.
ποιησάμενος δὲ τὸν πλοῦν ἐφʼ Ἑλλησπόντου καὶ συνάψας ταῖς πόλεσι ταῖς ὑπὸ Προυσίαν ταττομέναις ἀποβάσεις τε συνεχεῖς ἐποιεῖτο καὶ κακῶς διετίθει τὴν χώραν.
Having steered his course towards the Hellespont and reached the cities under the rule of Prusias, he made continuous landings and ravaged their territory.
ἡ δὲ σύγκλητος διακούσασα τῶν παρὰ τοῦ Προυσίου πρεσβευτῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων ἐξ αὐτῆς2 τρεῖς ἄλλους ἀπέστειλεν, Ἄππιόν τε τὸν Κλαύδιον καὶ Λεύκιον Ὄππιον καὶ Αὖλον Ποστόμιον.
The senate, after hearing the envoys from Prusias and those who had returned from Asia, dispatched three other commissioners, Appius Claudius, Lucius Oppius, and Aulus Postumius.
οἳ καὶ παραγενόμενοι πρὸς τὴν Ἀσίαν διέλυσαν τὸν πόλεμον, εἰς τὰς τοιαύτας συνθήκας ἐπαγαγόμενοι τοὺς βασιλέας ἀμφοτέρους, ὥστε3 παραχρῆμα μὲν εἴκοσι καταφράκτους νῆας ἀποδοῦναι Προυσίαν Ἀττάλῳ, πεντακόσια δὲ τάλαντα κατενεγκεῖν ἐν ἔτεσιν εἴκοσι·
These men, on arriving in Asia, brought the war to an end, inducing both kings to accept a treaty on the following terms: namely, that Prusias should immediately deliver twenty decked ships to Attalus, and pay five hundred talents over twenty years;
τὴν δὲ χώραν ἀμφοτέρους ἔχειν ἣν καὶ πρότερον εἶχον, ὅτʼ εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ἐνέβαινον.
and that both should retain the territory which they had previously held when they entered the war;
διορθώσασθαι δὲ Προυσίαν καὶ τὴν καταφθορὰν τῆς χώρας τῆς τε Μηθυμναίων καὶ τῶν Αἰγαιέων καὶ τῆς Κυμαίων καὶ Ἡρακλειωτῶν, ἑκατὸν τάλαντα δόντα τοῖς προειρημένοις.
and that Prusias should also compensate for the devastation of the territories of the Methymnaeans, Aegaeans, Cymaeans, and Heracleots, by paying one hundred talents to the aforementioned;
γραφεισῶν δʼ ἐπὶ τούτοις τῶν συνθηκῶν, ἀπῆγον τὰς δυνάμεις εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, τὰς ναυτικὰς καὶ τὰς πεζικάς.
When the treaty had been drawn up on these terms, Attalus and his men withdrew their forces, both naval and land, to their own country.
καὶ τῆς μὲν Ἀττάλου καὶ Προυσίου διαφορᾶς τοιοῦτος ὅ τε κατὰ μέρος χειρισμὸς ἐγενήθη τῶν πράξεων
Such, then, was the detailed management of the affairs concerning the dispute between Attalus and Prusias.
- 33.13.2ὧν
The relative pronoun ὧν functions as a partitive genitive referring back to ναυσὶ καταφράκτοις ὀγδοήκοντα in the preceding sentence. The subsequent genitives Ῥοδίων, Κυζικηνῶν, τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, and τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων are possessive genitives, together delineating the composition of the fleet.
- 33.13.4ἀνακεχωρηκότων ἐξ αὐτῆς
The participle ἀνακεχωρηκότων (with its omitted article τῶν) is coordinated with τῶν παρὰ τοῦ Προυσίου πρεσβευτῶν as the object of the verb διακούσασα, which governs the genitive. It refers to the Roman commissioners who had returned from Asia, with the pronoun αὐτῆς referring back to Asia.
- 33.13.6ὥστε
The conjunction ὥστε introduces a clause of result or proviso. The infinitives ἀποδοῦναι, κατενεγκεῖν (in §33.13.6), ἔχειν (in §33.13.7), and διορθώσασθαι (in §33.13.8) are all governed by ὥστε in an accusative-with-infinitive construction, specifying the individual terms of the treaty.