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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
King Philip puts Megaleas and others on trial, where Aratus accuses them of past wrongdoings with evidence, leading to their unanimous condemnation. Leontius stands bail for Megaleas, as their conspiracy completely fails, contrary to their initial plans.
γεῖν. τῇ δʼ ἐπαύριον ἀνακαλεσάμενος τὸν Ἄρατον παρεκάλει θαρρεῖν, ὅτι ποιήσεται τὴν ἐνδεχομένην ἐπιστροφὴν1 τοῦ πράγματος.
to prison. On the following day, having summoned Aratus, he encouraged him to be of good cheer, because he would make the necessary inquiry into the matter.
ὁ δὲ Λεόντιος, συνεὶς τὰ περὶ τὸν Μεγαλέαν, ἧκε πρὸς τὴν σκηνὴν μετά τινων πελταστῶν, πεπεισμένος καταπλήξεσθαι διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν2 καὶ ταχέως εἰς μετάνοιαν ἄξειν τὸν βασιλέα.
Leontius, on his part, understanding what had happened to Megaleas, came to the tent with some peltasts, confident that he would intimidate the king because of his youth and quickly bring him to repentance.
συντυχὼν δʼ αὐτῷ, προσεπυνθάνετο τίς ἐτόλμησεν ἐπιβαλεῖν τὰς χεῖρας Μεγαλέᾳ καὶ τίς εἰς τὴν φυλακὴν ἀπαγαγεῖν.
Meeting him, he inquired who had dared to lay hands on Megaleas, and who had led him away to prison.
τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ὑποστατικῶς αὐτοῦ φήσαντος συντεταχέναι,3 καταπλαγεὶς ὁ Λεόντιος καί τι προσανοιμώξας, ἀπῄει τεθυμωμένος. ὁ δὲ βασιλεύς, ἀναχθεὶς παντὶ τῷ στόλῳ καὶ διάρας τὸν κόλπον, ὡς θᾶττον εἰς τὴν Λευκάδα καθωρμίσθη, τοῖς μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν λαφύρων οἰκονομίας τεταγμένοις περὶ ταῦτα συνέταξε γινομένοις μὴ καθυστερεῖν, αὐτὸς δὲ συναγαγὼν τοὺς φίλους ἀπέδωκε κρίσιν τοῖς περὶ τὸν Μεγαλέαν.
And when the king replied firmly that he himself had given the order, Leontius, struck with amazement, uttered a slight groan and went away in a rage. The king, putting to sea with his whole fleet and crossing the gulf, as soon as he had anchored at Leucas, instructed those appointed to manage the spoils to lose no time in attending to this business; and he himself, having assembled his friends, brought Megaleas and his party to trial.
τοῦ δʼ Ἀράτου κατηγορήσαντος ἀνέκαθεν τὰ πεπραγμένα τοῖς περὶ τὸν Λεόντιον, καὶ διελθόντος τὴν γενομένην ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἐν Ἄργει σφαγήν, ἣν ἐποιήσαντο μετὰ τὸν Ἀντιγόνου χωρισμόν, καὶ τὰς πρὸς Ἀπελλῆν συνθήκας, ἔτι δὲ τὸν περὶ τοὺς Παλαιεῖς ἐμποδισμόν, καὶ πάντα ταῦτα μετʼ ἀποδείξεως ἐνδεικνυμένου καὶ μαρτύρων, οὐ δυνάμενοι πρὸς οὐδὲν ἀντιλέγειν οἱ περὶ τὸν Μεγαλέαν κατεκρίθησαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων.
Aratus, then, having accused Leontius and his party of all their conduct from the very beginning, and having detailed the massacre committed by them in Argos after the departure of Antigonus, and their treaty with Apelles, and furthermore their obstruction at Pale, and proving all these charges with evidence and witnesses, Megaleas and his party, being unable to say anything against them, were unanimously condemned by the friends.
καὶ Κρίνων μὲν ἔμεινεν ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ, τὸν δὲ Μεγαλέαν Λεόντιος ἀνεδέξατο τῶν χρημάτων.4
Crinon indeed remained in prison, but Leontius became bail for Megaleas’s fine.
ἡ μὲν οὖν Ἀπελλοῦ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Λεόντιον πρᾶξις ἐν τούτοις ἦν, παλίντροπον λαμβάνουσα τὴν προκοπὴν ταῖς ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὐτῶν ἐλπίσιν.
Thus stood the affairs of Apelles and Leontius’s party, taking a course of development contrary to their original expectations.
ἔδοξαν μὲν γὰρ καταπληξάμενοι τὸν Ἄρατον καὶ μονώσαντες τὸν Φίλιππον ποιήσειν ὅ τι ἂν αὐτοῖς δοκῇ συμφέρειν, ἀπέβη δὲ τούτων τἀναντία.
For they had thought that by intimidating Aratus and isolating Philip they would do whatever they pleased, but the result was the very opposite.
- 5.16.1ποιήσεται τὴν ἐνδεχομένην ἐπιστροφὴν
The verb ποιήσεται in the ὅτι-clause is future middle third-person singular, indicating an action future to the main past verb (παρεκάλει). Here ἐπιστροφή carries the sense of 'attention, correction, or calling to account' regarding the matter.
- 5.16.2πεπεισμένος καταπλήξεσθαι διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν
The future middle infinitive καταπλήξεσθαι dependent on the participle πεπεισμένος ('confident') has an active or transitive meaning ('to intimidate/cow'). The phrase διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν ('because of youth') refers to the young age of the king (Philip V).
- 5.16.4τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ὑποστατικῶς αὐτοῦ φήσαντος συντεταχέναι
A genitive absolute construction. The pronoun αὐτοῦ acts as an intensive pronoun, serving as the subject of the infinitive συντεταχέναι ('that he himself had ordered'). The adverb ὑποστατικῶς means 'resolutely' or 'firmly'.
- 5.16.8τῶν χρημάτων
The genitive τῶν χρημάτων depends on the verb ἀνεδέξατο ('became bail/surety for'), referring to the monetary fine or the required bail imposed on Megaleas.