§15.60.1ἅμα δὲ τούτοις πραττομένοις Ἰάσων ὁ Φερῶν τύραννος, συνέσει τε στρατηγικῇ διαφέρων καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν περιοίκων εἰς συμμαχίαν προηγμένος, ἔπεισε τοὺς Θετταλοὺς ἀντιποιεῖσθαι τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡγεμονίας· ταύτην γὰρ ὥσπερ ἔπαθλον ἀρετῆς προκεῖσθαι τοῖς δυναμένοις αὐτῆς ἀμφισβητῆσαι.
While these things were going on, Jason, the tyrant of Pherae, who excelled in military sagacity and had brought many of his neighbors into alliance, persuaded the Thessalians to lay claim to the hegemony of Greece; for he argued that this lay before those who were able to dispute it, like a prize of valor.
§15.60.2Λακεδαιμονίους γὰρ συνέβαινε περὶ Λεῦκτρα μεγάλῃ συμφορᾷ περιπεπτωκέναι, Ἀθηναίους δὲ μόνον τῆς κατὰ θάλατταν ἀρχῆς ἀντέχεσθαι, Θηβαίους δὲ τῶν πρωτείων ἀξίους μὴ εἶναι, Ἀργείους δὲ διὰ στάσεις καὶ φόνους ἐμφυλίους τεταπεινῶσθαι.
For it happened that the Lacedaemonians had fallen into a great disaster at Leuctra, the Athenians were clinging only to their empire of the sea, the Thebans were not worthy of the first place, and the Argives had been humbled by civil strife and mutual slaughter.
διόπερ οἱ Θετταλοὶ προστησάμενοι τῶν ὅλων ἡγεμόνα Ἰάσονα, τούτῳ τὰ κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπέτρεψαν.
Therefore, the Thessalians, having appointed Jason as leader of the whole, entrusted to him the affairs of war.
ὁ δὲ Ἰάσων παραλαβὼν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τῶν τε πλησίον ἐθνῶν τινα προσηγάγετο καὶ πρὸς Ἀμύνταν τὸν τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλέα συμμαχίαν ἐποιήσατο.
Jason, having assumed the leadership, brought over some of the neighboring tribes and made an alliance with Amyntas, the king of the Macedonians.
§15.60.3ἴδιον δέ τι συνέβη κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτόν· τῶν γὰρ ἐν δυναστείαις ὄντων τρεῖς ἐτελεύτησαν περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρόν.
A singular event occurred in this year; for of those in power, three died at about the same time.
Ἀμύντας μὲν ὁ Ἀρριδαίου βασιλεύων τῆς Μακεδονίας ἐτελεύτησεν ἄρξας ἔτη εἴκοσι καὶ τέτταρα, υἱοὺς ἀπολιπὼν τρεῖς, Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Περδίκκαν καὶ Φίλιππον· διεδέξατο δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν ὁ υἱὸς Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ ἦρξεν ἐνιαυτόν.
Amyntas, the son of Arrhidaeus, who was ruling Macedonia, died after a reign of twenty-four years, leaving three sons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip; and his son Alexander succeeded to the kingdom and ruled for a year.
§15.60.4ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Ἀγησίπολις ὁ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεὺς μετήλλαξεν ἄρξας ἐνιαυτόν, τὴν δὲ ἀρχὴν διαδεξάμενος Κλεομένης ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη τριάκοντα καὶ τέτταρα.
In like manner Agesipolis also, the king of the Lacedaemonians, died after a reign of a year, and his brother Cleomenes, succeeding to the rule, reigned for thirty-four years.
§15.60.5τρίτος δὲ Ἰάσων ὁ Φεραῖος ἡγεμὼν ᾑρημένος τῆς Θετταλίας, καὶ δοκῶν ἐπιεικῶς ἄρχειν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων, ἐδολοφονήθη, ὡς μὲν Ἔφορος γέγραφεν, ὑπό τινων ἑπτὰ νεανίσκων συνομοσαμένων δόξης ἕνεκα, ὡς δʼ ἔνιοι γράφουσιν, ὑπὸ Πολυδώρου τἀδελφοῦ.
Third, Jason of Pherae, who had been chosen leader of Thessaly and was thought to rule his subjects moderately, was assassinated—as Ephorus has written, by seven young men who had conspired together for the sake of glory, but as some write, by his brother Polydorus.
οὗτος δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς διαδεξάμενος τὴν δυναστείαν ἦρξεν ἐνιαυτόν.
This man himself succeeded to the dynasty and ruled for a year.
§15.60.6Δοῦρις δʼ ὁ Σάμιος ὁ ἱστοριογράφος τῆς τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἱστορίας ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιήσατο τὴν ἀρχήν.
Duris of Samos, the historian, began his history of Greece from this point.
ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἐπράχθη κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτόν.
These, then, were the events of this year.