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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Antiochus III marries Laodice, who arrived from Cappadocia, and prepares for war. Meanwhile, the rebel Molo prepares his forces, defeats the king's generals, and gains control of Apolloniatis.
ρίαν.1 ὄντος δʼ αὐτοῦ2 κατὰ τοὺς καιροὺς τούτους περὶ Σελεύκειαν τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ζεύγματος, παρῆν Διόγνητος ὁ ναύαρχος ἐκ Καππαδοκίας τῆς περὶ τὸν Εὔξεινον, ἄγων Λαοδίκην τὴν Μιθριδάτου τοῦ βασιλέως θυγατέρα, παρθένον οὖσαν, γυναῖκα τῷ βασιλεῖ κατωνομασμένην.
-syria. While he was about this time around Seleucia on the Zeugma, Diognetus the admiral arrived from Cappadocia on the Euxine, bringing Laodice, the daughter of King Mithridates, a virgin who had been betrothed to the king.
ὁ δὲ Μιθριδάτης εὔχετο μὲν ἀπόγονος εἶναι τῶν ἑπτὰ Περσῶν ἑνὸς3 τῶν ἐπανελομένων τὸν μάγον, διατετηρήκει δὲ τὴν δυναστείαν ἀπὸ προγόνων τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὐτοῖς διαδοθεῖσαν ὑπὸ Δαρείου παρὰ τὸν Εὔξεινον πόντον.
Mithridates claimed to be a descendant of one of the seven Persians who had assassinated the Magus, and had maintained the principality from his ancestors, which had been originally handed down to them by Darius by the Euxine Sea.
Ἀντίοχος δὲ προσδεξάμενος τὴν παρθένον μετὰ τῆς ἁρμοζούσης ἀπαντήσεως καὶ προστασίας εὐθέως ἐπετέλει τοὺς γάμους, μεγαλοπρεπῶς καὶ βασιλικῶς χρώμενος ταῖς παρασκευαῖς.
Antiochus, having received the virgin with the appropriate meeting and escort, immediately celebrated the marriage, making the preparations magnificently and in a manner worthy of a king.
μετὰ δὲ τὴν συντέλειαν τῶν γάμων καταβὰς εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν, βασίλισσαν ἀποδείξας τὴν Λαοδίκην, λοιπὸν ἐγίνετο περὶ τὴν τοῦ πολέμου παρασκευήν. κατὰ δὲ τοὺς καιροὺς τούτους Μόλων, ἑτοίμους παρεσκευακὼς πρὸς πᾶν τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας σατραπείας ὄχλους διά τε τὰς ἐλπίδας τὰς ἐκ τῶν ὠφελειῶν καὶ τοὺς φόβους, οὓς ἐνειργάσατο τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν4 ἀνατατικὰς καὶ ψευδεῖς εἰσφέρων ἐπιστολὰς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως, ἕτοιμον δὲ συναγωνιστὴν ἔχων τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἀλέξανδρον, ἠσφαλισμένος δὲ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὰς παρακειμένας σατραπείας διὰ τῆς τῶν προεστώτων εὐνοίας καὶ δωροδοκίας, ἐξεστράτευσε μετὰ μεγάλης δυνάμεως ἐπὶ τοὺς τοῦ βασιλέως στρατηγούς.
After the completion of the marriage, having gone down to Antioch and declared Laodice queen, he subsequently occupied himself with the preparation for the war. About this same time, Molo, having prepared the multitudes of his own satrapy to be ready for anything, both through the hopes arising from plunder and the fears which he inspired in the officers by presenting forged and threatening letters from the king, and having his brother Alexander as a ready fellow-combatant, and having also secured the affairs in the neighboring satrapies through the goodwill and bribery of their governors, marched out with a large force against the generals of the king.
οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ξένωνα καὶ Θεόδοτον καταπλαγέντες τὴν ἔφοδον ἀνεχώρησαν εἰς τὰς πόλεις.
Those around Xenon and Theodotus, terrified by the attack, retreated into the cities.
ὁ δὲ Μόλων κύριος γενόμενος τῆς5 Ἀπολλωνιάτιδος χώρας εὐπορεῖτο ταῖς χορηγίαις ὑπερβαλλόντως. ἦν δὲ φοβερὸς μὲν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῆς
Molo, having become master of the territory of Apolloniatis, was abundantly supplied with provisions beyond measure. He had indeed been formidable even before this because of the greatness of...
- 5.43.1ρίαν.
This is the syllable continuing from Συ at the end of the previous chunk, forming the word Συρίαν (Syria, accusative). The word was split due to the textual chunking.
- 5.43.1ὄντος δʼ αὐτοῦ
A genitive absolute construction. The pronoun αὐτοῦ refers to Antiochus III and acts as the subject of the participle ὄντος.
- 5.43.2τῶν ἑπτὰ Περσῶν ἑνὸς
The genitive ἑνὸς depends on ἀπόγονος (descendant). In turn, τῶν ἑπτὰ Περσῶν (the seven Persians) is a partitive genitive qualifying ἑνὸς (one).
- 5.43.5οὓς ἐνειργάσατο τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν
The antecedent of the relative pronoun οὓς is τοὺς φόβους (fears). The verb ἐνειργάσατο (inspired/instilled, aorist middle) takes the dative τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν (officers) as its indirect object.
- 5.43.8τῆς
The text cuts off at the end of the chunk. This definite article τῆς is a genitive feminine singular article qualifying a noun that would follow in the next chunk (e.g., δυνάμεως 'force/power').