§8.43.1ἀπαιτεῖ δὲ ἡμᾶς τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ὁ λόγος τό τε Παλλάντιον, εἰ δή τι αὐτόθι ἐστὶν ἐς μνήμην, καὶ καθʼ ἥντινα βασιλεὺς αἰτίαν Ἀντωνῖνος ὁ πρότερος πόλιν τε ἀντὶ κώμης ἐποίησε Παλλάντιον καί σφισιν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ ἀτέλειαν ἔδωκεν εἶναι φόρων.
Following this, our narrative demands of us both Pallantium, if indeed there is anything there worthy of memory, and for what reason the elder Emperor Antoninus made Pallantium a city instead of a village, and granted them to be free and exempt from taxes.
§8.43.2φασὶ δὴ γενέσθαι καὶ γνώμην καὶ τὰ ἐς πόλεμον ἄριστον τῶν Ἀρκάδων ὄνομα Εὔανδρον, παῖδα δὲ αὐτὸν νύμφης τε εἶναι, θυγατρὸς τοῦ Λάδωνος, καὶ Ἑρμοῦ.
They say indeed that there was a man named Evander, best of the Arcadians both in wisdom and in matters of war, and that he was the son of a nymph, a daughter of Ladon, and of Hermes.
σταλέντα δὲ ἐς ἀποικίαν καὶ ἄγοντα Ἀρκάδων τῶν ἐκ Παλλαντίου στρατιάν, παρὰ τῷ ποταμῷ πόλιν τῷ Θύβριδι οἰκίσαι· καὶ Ῥωμαίων μέρος τῆς καθʼ ἡμᾶς πόλεως, ὃ ᾠκεῖτο ὑπὸ τοῦ Εὐάνδρου καὶ Ἀρκάδων τῶν συνακολουθησάντων, ὄνομα ἔσχε Παλλάντιον κατὰ μνήμην τῆς ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ·
Having been sent out to found a colony and leading an army of the Arcadians from Pallantium, he settled a city by the river Tiber; and a part of the city of our own day of the Romans, which was inhabited by Evander and the Arcadians who followed him, obtained the name Pallantium in memory of the city in Arcadia.
χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον μετέπεσε τὸ ὄνομα ἐν ἀναιρέσει γραμμάτων τοῦ τε λ καὶ τοῦ ν.
But at a later time the name changed by the omission of the letters 'l' and 'n'.
τούτων μὲν τῶν λελεγμένων ἕνεκα Παλλαντιεῦσιν ἐκ βασιλέως ἐγένοντο δωρεαί·
Because of these things that have been told, gifts were bestowed upon the Pallantians by the Emperor.
§8.43.3ὁ δὲ Ἀντωνῖνος, ὅτῳ καὶ ἐς Παλλαντιεῖς ἐστιν εὐεργετήματα, πόλεμον μὲν Ῥωμαίοις ἐθελοντὴς ἐπηγάγετο οὐδένα, πολέμου δὲ ἄρξαντας Μαύρους, Λιβύων τῶν αὐτονόμων τὴν μεγίστην μοῖραν, νομάδας τε ὄντας καὶ τοσῷδε ἔτι δυσμαχωτέρους τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ γένους ὅσῳ μὴ ἐπὶ ἁμαξῶν, ἐπὶ ἵππων δὲ αὐτοί τε καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἠλῶντο, τούτους μὲν ἐξ ἁπάσης ἐλαύνων τῆς χώρας ἐς τὰ ἔσχατα ἠνάγκασεν ἀναφυγεῖν Λιβύης, ἐπί τε Ἄτλαντα τὸ ὄρος καὶ ἐς τοὺς πρὸς τῷ Ἄτλαντι ἀνθρώπους·
But Antoninus, who also showed benefactions to the Pallantians, brought no war upon the Romans of his own free will; but when the Mauri, the greatest part of the independent Libyans, who were nomads and even more difficult to fight than the Scythian race inasmuch as both they and their women roamed not on wagons but on horses, began a war, he drove them out of their entire country and forced them to flee to the uttermost parts of Libya, both to Mount Atlas and to the people living near Atlas.
§8.43.4ἀπετέμετο δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐν Βριττανίᾳ Βριγάντων τὴν πολλήν, ὅτι ἐπεσβαίνειν καὶ οὗτοι σὺν ὅπλοις ἦρξαν ἐς τὴν Γενουνίαν μοῖραν, ὑπηκόους Ῥωμαίων.
He also cut off much of the territory of the Brigantes in Britain, because they too began to make armed incursions into the Genunian district, which was subject to the Romans.
Λυκίων δὲ καὶ Καρῶν τὰς πόλεις Κῶν τε καὶ Ῥόδον ἀνέτρεψε μὲν βίαιος ἐς αὐτὰς κατασκήψας σεισμός· βασιλεὺς δὲ Ἀντωνῖνος καὶ ταύτας ἀνεσώσατο δαπανημάτων τε ὑπερβολῇ καὶ ἐς τὸν ἀνοικισμὸν προθυμίᾳ.
And although a violent earthquake descending upon them overthrew the cities of the Lycians and Carians, and Cos and Rhodes, the Emperor Antoninus restored these too by his lavish expenditure and his zeal for their rebuilding.
χρημάτων δὲ ἐπιδόσεις ὁπόσας καὶ Ἕλλησι καὶ τοῦ βαρβαρικοῦ τοῖς δεηθεῖσι, καὶ ἔργων κατασκευὰς ἔν τε τῇ Ἑλλάδι καὶ περὶ Ἰωνίαν καὶ περὶ Καρχηδόνα τε καὶ ἐν γῇ τῇ Σύρων, τάδε μὲν ἄλλοι ἔγραψαν ἐς τὸ ἀκριβέστατον·
As for the sums of money he distributed both to the Greeks and to those of the barbarians who stood in need, and the structures he built in Greece, around Ionia, Carthage, and in the land of the Syrians, other writers have recorded these with the greatest accuracy.
§8.43.5ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ὑπελίπετο οὗτος καὶ ἄλλο τοιόνδε ἐς μνήμην.
This Emperor also left behind another such deed for remembrance.
ὅσοις τῶν ὑπηκόων πολίταις ὑπῆρχεν εἶναι Ῥωμαίων, οἱ δὲ παῖδες ἐτέλουν σφίσιν ἐς τὸ Ἑλληνικόν, τούτοις ἐλείπετο ἢ κατανεῖμαι τὰ χρήματα ἐς οὐ προσήκοντας ἢ ἐπαυξῆσαι τὸν βασιλέως πλοῦτον κατὰ νόμον δή τινα· Ἀντωνῖνος δὲ ἐφῆκε καὶ τούτοις διδόναι σφᾶς παισὶ τὸν κλῆρον, προτιμήσας φανῆναι φιλάνθρωπος ἢ ὠφέλιμον ἐς χρήματα φυλάξαι νόμον.
For those of his subjects who had the status of Roman citizens, but whose children were enrolled as Greeks, it was left either to distribute their property to those not related to them or to increase the Emperor's wealth according to a certain law; but Antoninus permitted even these to leave their inheritance to their children, preferring to appear humane rather than to maintain a law useful for revenue.
τοῦτον Εὐσεβῆ τὸν βασιλέα ἐκάλεσαν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι, διότι τῇ ἐς τὸ θεῖον τιμῇ μάλιστα ἐφαίνετο χρώμενος·
The Romans called this Emperor Pius, because he was seen to be most devoted to the honor of the divine.
§8.43.6δόξῃ δὲ ἐμῇ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τὸ Κύρου φέροιτο ἂν τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου, πατὴρ ἀνθρώπων καλούμενος.
In my opinion, he might also bear the name of Cyrus the Elder, being called the father of mankind.
ἀπέλιπε δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ παῖδα ὁμώνυμον· ὁ δὲ Ἀντωνῖνος οὗτος ὁ δεύτερος καὶ τούς τε Γερμανούς, μαχιμωτάτους καὶ πλείστους τῶν ἐν τῇ Εὐρώπῃ βαρβάρων, καὶ ἔθνος τὸ Σαυροματῶν, πολέμου καὶ ἀδικίας ἄρξαντας, τιμωρούμενος ἐπεξῆλθε.
He also left behind a son of the same name for his empire; and this second Antoninus marched against both the Germans, the most warlike and numerous of the barbarians in Europe, and the nation of the Sauromatae, who had begun a war and committed injustices, in order to punish them.