§17.108.1κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν ἧκον εἰς τὰ Σοῦσα τρισμύριοι τῶν Περσῶν, νέοι μὲν παντελῶς ταῖς ἡλικίαις, ἐπιλελεγμένοι δὲ ταῖς τῶν σωμάτων εὐπρεπείαις τε καὶ ῥώμαις.
Around this time, there came to Susa thirty thousand of the Persians, who were quite young in age, but selected for the beauty and strength of their bodies.
§17.108.2κατὰ δέ τινας ἐντολὰς τοῦ βασιλέως ἠθροισμένοι, χρόνον ἱκανὸν ἐπιστάτας καὶ διδασκάλους ἐσχηκότες τῶν πολεμικῶν ἔργων, πάντες δὲ Μακεδονικαῖς πανοπλίαις πολυτελῶς κεκοσμημένοι, παρεμβολὴν μὲν ἐποιήσαντο πρὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπιδειξάμενοι δὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὴν ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἄσκησιν καὶ μελέτην ἐτιμήθησαν διαφερόντως.
Having been assembled according to certain instructions of the king, having had for a sufficient time supervisors and teachers of military actions, and all of them being sumptuously adorned with Macedonian panoplies, they made an encampment before the city, and having displayed to the king their training and practice in arms, they were exceptionally honored.
§17.108.3τῶν γὰρ Μακεδόνων πρὸς τὴν τοῦ Γάγγου ποταμοῦ διάβασιν ἀντειπόντων καὶ πολλάκις ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις καταβοώντων καὶ τὴν ἐξ Ἄμμωνος γένεσιν διασυρόντων τοῦτο τὸ σύστημα κατεσκεύασεν ἐκ μιᾶς μὲν ἡλικίας τῶν Περσῶν καὶ ὁμοίας συνεστηκός, δυνάμενον δὲ ἀντίταγμα γενέσθαι τῇ Μακεδονικῇ φάλαγγι.
For since the Macedonians had opposed the crossing of the river Ganges, and had often cried out in the assemblies and mocked his birth from Ammon, he organized this force, which consisted of a single and uniform age group of the Persians and was capable of becoming a counter-force to the Macedonian phalanx.
καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐν τούτοις ἦν.
And such was the state of affairs concerning Alexander.
§17.108.4Ἅρπαλος δὲ τῶν ἐν Βαβυλῶνι θησαυρῶν καὶ τῶν προσόδων τὴν φυλακὴν πεπιστευμένος, ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὴν Ἰνδικὴν ἐστράτευσεν, ἀπέγνω τὴν ἐπάνοδον αὐτοῦ, δοὺς δʼ ἑαυτὸν εἰς τρυφὴν καὶ πολλῆς χώρας ἀποδεδειγμένος σατράπης τὸ μὲν πρῶτον εἰς ὕβρεις γυναικῶν καὶ παρανόμους ἔρωτας βαρβάρων ἐξετράπη καὶ πολλὰ τῆς γάζης ἀκρατεστάταις ἡδοναῖς κατανάλωσεν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης πολὺ διάστημα κομίζων ἰχθύων πλῆθος καὶ δίαιταν πολυδάπανον ἐνιστάμενος ἐβλασφημεῖτο.
But Harpalus, who had been entrusted with the custody of the treasures and revenues in Babylon, as soon as the king campaigned into India, despaired of his return, and giving himself over to luxury, and having been appointed satrap of a large territory, at first turned aside to abuses of women and unlawful loves of barbarians, and consumed much of the treasure on the most self-indulgent pleasures, and bringing a large quantity of fish over a great distance from the Red Sea and establishing a costly lifestyle, he was ill-spoken of.
§17.108.5μετὰ δὲ ταῦτʼ ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν τὴν ἐπιφανεστάτην τῶν ἑταιρῶν ὄνομα Πυθονίκην μετεπέμψατο καὶ ζῶσάν τε αὐτὴν βασιλικαῖς δωρεαῖς ἐτίμησε καὶ μεταλλάξασαν ἔθαψε πολυτελῶς καὶ τάφον κατὰ τὴν Ἀττικὴν κατεσκεύασε πολυδάπανον.
After this, he sent for the most famous of the courtesans from Athens, named Pythonice, and while she was alive, he honored her with royal gifts, and when she passed away, he buried her sumptuously and constructed a costly tomb in Attica.
§17.108.6μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἄλλην ἑταίραν Ἀττικὴν ὄνομα Γλυκέραν μεταπεμψάμενος ἐν ὑπερβαλλούσῃ τρυφῇ καὶ πολυδαπάνῳ διαιτήματι διεξῆγεν· εἰς δὲ τὰ παράλογα τῆς τύχης καταφυγὰς ποριζόμενος εὐεργέτει τὸν τῶν Ἀθηναίων δῆμον.
After this, having sent for another Athenian courtesan named Glycera, he spent his time in excessive luxury and a costly way of living; and providing himself with refuges against the unexpected turns of fortune, he benefited the Athenian people.
τοῦ δὲ Ἀλεξάνδρου μετὰ τὴν ἐξ Ἰνδῶν ἐπάνοδον πολλοὺς τῶν σατραπῶν κατηγορηθέντας ἀνελόντος φοβηθεὶς τὴν τιμωρίαν καὶ συσκευασάμενος ἀργυρίου μὲν τάλαντα πεντακισχίλια, μισθοφόρους δʼ ἀθροίσας ἑξακισχιλίους ἀπῆρεν ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ κατέπλευσεν εἰς τὴν Ἀττικήν.
But when Alexander, after his return from India, put to death many of the satraps who had been accused, Harpalus, fearing punishment, and having packed up five thousand talents of silver and assembled six thousand mercenaries, departed from Asia and sailed down to Attica.
§17.108.7οὐδενὸς δὲ αὐτῷ προσέχοντος τοὺς μὲν μισθοφόρους ἀπέλιπε περὶ Ταίναρον τῆς Λακωνικῆς, αὐτὸς δὲ μέρος τῶν χρημάτων ἀναλαβὼν ἱκέτης ἐγένετο τοῦ δήμου.
But since no one paid attention to him, he left the mercenaries around Taenarum in Laconia, while he himself, taking up a part of the money, became a suppliant of the people.
ἐξαιτούμενος δὲ ὑπʼ Ἀντιπάτρου καὶ Ὀλυμπιάδος καὶ πολλὰ χρήματα διαδοὺς τοῖς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ δημηγοροῦσι ῥήτορσι διέδρα καὶ κατῆρεν εἰς Ταίναρον πρὸς τοὺς μισθοφόρους.
Being demanded for surrender by Antipater and Olympias, and having distributed much money to the orators who spoke in his defense, he escaped and put in at Taenarum to rejoin the mercenaries.
§17.108.8ἐκεῖθεν δὲ πλεύσας εἰς Κρήτην ὑπὸ Θίβρωνος ἑνὸς τῶν φίλων ἐδολοφονήθη.
And sailing from there to Crete, he was murdered by Thibron, one of his friends.
οἱ δʼ Ἀθηναῖοι τῶν τοῦ Ἁρπάλου χρημάτων λόγον ἀναζητοῦντες Δημοσθένην καὶ ἄλλους τινὰς τῶν ῥητόρων κατεδίκασαν ὡς εἰληφότας τῶν Ἁρπάλου χρημάτων.
The Athenians, seeking an accounting of Harpalus' money, condemned Demosthenes and certain others of the orators on the ground that they had received some of Harpalus' money.