§21.1ὡς οὖν ὁ περὶ τῆς τελευτῆς λόγος ἧκεν εἰς τοὺς Ἀχαιούς, τὰς μὲν πόλεις αὐτῶν κοινὴ κατήφεια καὶ πένθος εἶχεν, οἱ δʼ ἐν ἡλικίᾳ μετὰ τῶν προβούλων συνελθόντες εἰς Μεγάλην πόλιν οὐδʼ ἡντινοῦν ἀναβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο τῆς τιμωρίας, ἀλλʼ ἑλόμενοι στρατηγὸν Λυκόρταν εἰς τὴν Μεσσηνίαν ἐνέβαλον καὶ κακῶς ἐποίουν τὴν χώραν, ἄχρι οὗ συμφρονήσαντες ἐδέξαντο τοὺς Ἀχαιούς.
When, therefore, the news of his death reached the Achaeans, a common dejection and grief took possession of their cities, and those of military age, gathering at Megalopolis with the councillors, made no delay whatever in seeking vengeance, but choosing Lycortas as general, they invaded Messenia and ravaged the country, until the Messenians, coming to agreement, admitted the Achaeans.
§21.2καὶ Δεινοκράτης μὲν αὐτὸς αὑτὸν φθάσας διεχρήσατο, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ὅσοις μὲν ἀνελεῖν ἔδοξε Φιλοποίμενα διʼ αὐτῶν ἀπέθνῃσκον, ὅσοις δὲ καὶ βασανίσαι, τούτους ἐπʼ αἰκίαις ἀπολουμένους συνελάμβανεν ὁ Λυκόρτας.
And Dinocrates, anticipating them, made away with himself, while of the others, all those who had voted to put Philopoemen to death killed themselves, and those who had voted also to torture him, Lycortas seized to be put to death with torture.
τὸ δὲ σῶμα καύσαντες αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ λείψανα συνθέντες εἰς ὑδρίαν ἀνεζεύγνυσαν, οὐκ ἀτάκτως οὐδὲ ὡς ἔτυχεν, ἀλλʼ ἐπινίκιόν πομπήν τινα ἅμα ταῖς ταφαῖς μίξαντες.
Having burned his body and collected his remains into an urn, they marched back, not in disorder or at random, but mingling a kind of triumphal procession with the funeral rites.
§21.3ἦν μὲν γὰρ ἐστεφανωμένους ἰδεῖν, ἦν δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς καὶ δακρύοντας, ἦν δὲ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς δεσμίους ἀγομένους, αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν ὑδρίαν ὑπὸ πλήθους ταινιῶν τε καὶ στεφάνων μόλις ὁρωμένην ἐκόμιζεν ὁ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν παῖς Πολύβιος καὶ περὶ αὑτὸν οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν Ἀχαιῶν.
For one could see people wearing wreaths, and the very same people weeping, and their enemies being led along in chains, and the urn itself, scarcely visible under a multitude of ribbons and wreaths, was carried by the son of the Achaeans' general, Polybius, and around him were the foremost of the Achaeans.
οἱ δὲ στρατιῶται ὠπλισμένοι μὲν αὐτοί, τοῖς δʼ ἵπποις κεκοσμημένοις ἐπηκολούθουν, οὔτε, οἷον ἐπὶ πένθει τοσούτῳ, κατηφεῖς οὔτε τῇ νίκῃ γαυριῶντες.
The soldiers, fully armed themselves, followed with their horses adorned, being neither dejected, as was natural in so great a grief, nor exultant over their victory.
§21.4ἐκ δὲ τῶν διὰ μέσου πόλεων καὶ κωμῶν ἀπαντῶντες, ὥσπερ αὑτὸν ἀπὸ στρατείας ἐπανιόντα δεξιούμενοι, τῆς ὑδρίας ἐφήπτοντο, καὶ συμπροῆγον εἰς Μεγάλην πόλιν.
And those from the cities and villages on the way, meeting them as if welcoming him back from a campaign, touched the urn, and accompanied them to Megalopolis.
ὡς οὖν συνανεμείχθησαν αὐτοῖς οἱ πρεσβύτεροι μετὰ γυναικῶν καὶ παίδων, ὀλοφυρμὸς ἤδη διὰ παντὸς ἐχώρει τοῦ στρατεύματος εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἐπιποθοῦσαν τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ βαρέως φέρουσαν, οἰομένην συναποβεβληκέναι τὸ πρωτεύειν ἐν τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς.
When, therefore, the elders with women and children joined them, a wailing at once spread through the whole army into the city, which yearned for the man and bore his loss heavily, thinking that they had lost along with him their preeminence among the Achaeans.
§21.5ἐτάφη μὲν οὖν, ὡς εἰκὸς, ἐνδόξως, καὶ περὶ τὸ μνημεῖον οἱ τῶν Μεσσηνίων αἰχμάλωτοι κατελεύσθησαν.
He was buried, then, as was fitting, gloriously, and around his monument the Messenian captives were stoned to death.
οὐσῶν δὲ πολλῶν μὲν εἰκόνων αὐτοῦ, μεγάλων δὲ τιμῶν, ἃς αἱ πόλεις ἐψηφίσαντο, Ῥωμαῖος ἀνὴρ ἐν τοῖς περὶ Κόρινθον ἀτυχήμασι τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐπεχείρησεν ἀνελεῖν ἁπάσας καὶ διώκειν αὐτόν, ἐνδεικνύμενος, ὥσπερ ἔτι ζῶντα, Ῥωμαίοις πολέμιον καὶ κακόνουν γενέσθαι.
And though there were many statues of him and great honors which the cities had decreed, a certain Roman, at the time of the misfortunes of Greece around Corinth, attempted to remove them all and to prosecute him, accusing him, as if he were still alive, of having been an enemy and ill-disposed to the Romans.
§21.6λόγων δὲ λεχθέντων καὶ Πολυβίου πρὸς τὸν συκοφάντην ἀντειπόντος οὔθ ὁ Μόμμιος οὔτε οἱ πρέσβεις ὑπέμειναν ἀνδρὸς ἐνδόξου τιμὰς ἀφανίσαι, καίπερ οὐκ ὀλίγα τοῖς περὶ Τίτον καὶ Μάνιον ἐναντιωθέντος, ἀλλὰ τῆς χρείας τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὸ καλὸν, ὡς ἔοικε, τοῦ λυσιτελοῦς διώριζον, ὀρθῶς καὶ προσηκόντως τοῖς μὲν ὠφελοῦσι μισθὸν καὶ χάριν παρὰ τῶν εὖ παθόντων, τοῖς δʼ ἀγαθοῖς τιμὴν ὀφείλεσθαι παρὰ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀεὶ νομίζοντες.
But after arguments had been spoken and Polybius had replied to the sycophant, neither Mommius nor the commissioners could bring themselves to abolish the honors of an illustrious man, although he had opposed Titus and Manius in no small degree; but they distinguished, as it seems, virtue from utility, and the honorable from the advantageous, rightly and properly believing that reward and gratitude are due to benefactors from those who have been well treated, and honor to the good always from the good.
ταῦτα περὶ Φιλοποίμενος.
Thus much concerning Philopoemen.