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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 decides against besieging Sidon, captures Philoteria and Atabyrium by a stratagem, and successfully wins over several of Ptolemy's commanders, including Ceraeas.
Ἀντίοχος δὲ τὴν δύναμιν ἀναλαβὼν ἧκε καὶ κατεστρατοπέδευσε πρὸς τῇ Σιδῶνι.
Antiochus, having taken up his army, arrived and encamped near Sidon.
τὸ μὲν οὖν καταπειράζειν τῆς πόλεως ἀπέγνω1 διὰ τὴν προϋπάρχουσαν αὐτόθι δαψίλειαν τῆς χορηγίας καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐνοικούντων καὶ συμπεφευγότων ἀνδρῶν·
Now, he gave up trying to assault the city, because of the abundance of provisions already existing there and the multitude of inhabitants and those who had fled there for refuge;
ἀναλαβὼν δὲ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτὸς μὲν ἐποιεῖτο τὴν πορείαν ὡς ἐπὶ Φιλοτερίας, Διογνήτῳ δὲ συνέταξε τῷ ναυάρχῳ πάλιν ἔχοντι τὰς ναῦς ἀποπλεῖν εἰς Τύρον.
but having taken up his army, he himself made his march as if towards Philoteria, and ordered Diognetus the admiral to sail back to Tyre with his ships.
ἡ δὲ Φιλοτερία κεῖται παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν λίμνην, εἰς ἣν ὁ καλούμενος Ἰορδάνης ποταμὸς εἰσβάλλων ἐξίησι πάλιν εἰς τὰ πεδία τὰ περὶ τὴν Σκυθῶν πόλιν προσαγορευομένην.
Now Philoteria lies close by the lake, into which the river called Jordan flows and issues out again into the plains around the city called Scythopolis.
γενόμενος δὲ καθʼ ὁμολογίαν ἐγκρατὴς ἀμφοτέρων τῶν προειρημένων πόλεων, εὐθαρσῶς ἔσχε πρὸς τὰς μελλούσας ἐπιβολὰς διὰ τὸ τὴν ὑποτεταγμένην χώραν ταῖς πόλεσι ταύταις ῥᾳδίως δύνασθαι παντὶ τῷ στρατοπέδῳ χορηγεῖν καὶ δαψιλῆ παρασκευάζειν τὰ κατεπείγοντα πρὸς τὴν χρείαν.
Having become master of both the aforementioned cities by agreement, he felt of good courage regarding his future enterprises, because the territory subject to these cities was easily able to supply the whole army and to provide in abundance what was urgently needed for their requirements.
ἀσφαλισάμενος δὲ φρουραῖς ταύτας ὑπερέβαλε τὴν ὀρεινὴν καὶ παρῆν ἐπʼ Ἀταβύριον, ὃ κεῖται μὲν ἐπὶ λόφου μαστοειδοῦς, τὴν δὲ πρόσβασιν ἔχει πλεῖον ἢ πεντεκαίδεκα σταδίων.
And having secured these with garrisons, he crossed the mountainous country and arrived at Atabyrium, which lies upon a breast-shaped hill, having an ascent of more than fifteen stades.
χρησάμενος δὲ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον ἐνέδρᾳ καὶ στρατηγήματι κατέσχε τὴν πόλιν·
And having employed at this time an ambush and a stratagem, he took the city;
προκαλεσάμενος γὰρ εἰς ἀκροβολισμὸν τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως καὶ συγκαταβιβάσας ἐπὶ πολὺ τοὺς προκινδυνεύοντας, κἄπειτα πάλιν ἐκ μεταβολῆς τῶν φευγόντων καὶ διαναστάσεως τῶν ἐγκαθημένων2 συμβαλών, πολλοὺς μὲν αὐτῶν ἀπέκτεινε, τέλος δʼ ἐπακολουθήσας καὶ προκαταπληξάμενος ἐξ ἐφόδου παρέλαβε καὶ ταύτην τὴν πόλιν.
for having provoked those from the city to a skirmish, and having drawn down those who fought in the vanguard to a great distance, and then again having engaged them by a turnabout of his fleeing men and the rising up of those in ambush, he killed many of them, and finally, pursuing them and having struck terror into them by a sudden assault, he took this city also.
κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον Κεραίας, εἷς τῶν· ὑπὸ Πτολεμαῖον ταττομένων ὑπάρχων, ἀπέστη πρὸς αὐτόν· ᾧ χρησάμενος μεγαλοπρεπῶς πολλοὺς ἐμετεώρισε τῶν παρὰ τοῖς ἐναντίοις ἡγεμόνων·3
At this time Ceraeas, who was one of those stationed under Ptolemy, deserted to him; whom having treated with great magnificence, he excited the hopes of many of the commanders among the enemy;
Ἱππόλοχος γοῦν ὁ Θετταλὸς οὐ μετὰ πολὺ τετρακοσίους ἱππεῖς ἧκεν ἔχων πρὸς αὐτὸν τῶν ὑπὸ Πτολεμαῖον ταττομένων.
at any rate Hippolochus the Thessalian, not long after, came to him with four hundred cavalry of those stationed under Ptolemy.
ἀσφαλισάμενος δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἀταβύριον ἀνέζευξε, καὶ προάγων παρέλαβε Πέλλαν καὶ
Having secured Atabyrium also, he broke camp, and advancing took Pella and...
- 5.70.2τὸ μὲν οὖν καταπειράζειν τῆς πόλεως ἀπέγνω
The verb ἀπέγνω (gave up) takes the nominalized infinitive phrase τὸ καταπειράζειν as its direct object, and the infinitive in turn takes τῆς πόλεως as its genitive object.
- 5.70.8ἐκ μεταβολῆς τῶν φευγόντων καὶ διαναστάσεως τῶν ἐγκαθημένων
The preposition ἐκ governs both action nouns, μεταβολῆς and διαναστάσεως, to express the means. The genitive participles, τῶν φευγόντων and τῶν ἐγκαθημένων, function as subjective genitives indicating the agents of these actions.
- 5.70.10πολλοὺς ἐμετεώρισε τῶν παρὰ τοῖς ἐναντίοις ἡγεμόνων
The transitive verb ἐμετεώρισε (excited the expectations of / unsettled) takes the accusative adjective πολλούς as its direct object, which is modified by the partitive genitive τῶν... ἡγεμόνων.