§15.23.1περὶ Φιλίππου.
Concerning Philip.
καὶ γὰρ ἡ τύχη πρός γε τοῦτο τὸ μέρος αὐτῷ συνήργησε προφανῶς. §15.23.2ὅτε γὰρ ὁ πρεσβευτὴν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ τὸν ἀπολογισμὸν ἐποιεῖτο πρὸς τοὺς Ῥοδίους, ἐμφανίζων τὴν τοῦ Φιλίππου μεγαλοψυχίαν, καὶ διότι τρόπον τινὰ κρατῶν ἤδη τῆς πόλεως δίδωσι τῷ δήμῳ τὴν χάριν ταύτην, ποιεῖ δὲ τοῦτο βουλόμενος ἐλέγξαι μὲν τὰς τῶν ἀντιπραττόντων αὐτῷ διαβολάς, φανερὰν δὲ τῇ πόλει καταστῆσαι τὴν αὑτοῦ προαίρεσιν· §15.23.3καὶ παρῆν τις ἐκ κατάπλου πρὸς τὸ πρυτανεῖον ἀναγγέλλων τὸν ἐξανδραποδισμὸν τῶν Κιανῶν καὶ τὴν ὠμότητα τοῦ Φιλίππου τὴν ἐν τούτοις γεγενημένην, §15.23.4ὥστε τοὺς Ῥοδίους, ἔτι μεταξὺ τοῦ πρεσβευτοῦ τὰ προειρημένα λέγοντος, ἐπεὶ προελθὼν ὁ πρύτανις διεσάφει τὰ προσηγγελμένα, μὴ δύνασθαι πιστεῦσαι διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς ἀθεσίας. §15.23.5Φίλιππος μὲν οὖν, παρασπονδήσας οὐχ οὕτως Κιανοὺς ὡς ἑαυτόν, εἰς τοιαύτην ἄγνοιαν ἢ καὶ παράπτωσιν τοῦ καθήκοντος ἧκεν ὥστʼ ἐφʼ οἷς ἐχρῆν αἰσχύνεσθαι καθʼ ὑπερβολήν, ἐπὶ τούτοις ὡς καλοῖς σεμνύνεσθαι καὶ μεγαλαυχεῖν· §15.23.6ὁ δὲ τῶν Ῥοδίων δῆμος ἀπὸ ταύτης τῆς ἡμέρας ὡς περὶ πολεμίου διελάμβανε τοῦ Φιλίππου, καὶ πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν σκοπὸν ἐποιεῖτο τὰς παρασκευάς. §15.23.7παραπλήσιον δὲ καὶ τοῖς Αἰτωλοῖς μῖσος ἐκ ταύτης τῆς πράξεως ἐνειργάσατο πρὸς αὑτόν· §15.23.8ἄρτι γὰρ διαλελυμένος καὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἐκτείνων πρὸς τὸ ἔθνος, οὐδεμιᾶς προφάσεως ἐγγινομένης, φίλων ὑπαρχόντων καὶ συμμάχων Αἰτωλῶν, Λυσιμαχέων, §15.23.9Καλχηδονίων, Κιανῶν, βραχεῖ χρόνῳ πρότερον, πρῶτον μὲν προσηγάγετο τὴν Λυσιμαχέων πόλιν, ἀποσπάσας ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Αἰτωλῶν συμμαχίας, δευτέραν δὲ τὴν Καλχηδονίων, τρίτην δὲ τὴν Κιανῶν ἐξηνδραποδίσατο, στρατηγοῦ παρʼ Αἰτωλῶν ἐν αὐτῇ διατρίβοντος καὶ προεστῶτος τῶν κοινῶν.
For indeed fortune, in this matter at least, manifestly worked with him. For when the ambassador was making his defense before the Rhodians in the theater, displaying the magnanimity of Philip, and explaining that, since he was already in a sense master of the city, he was granting this favor to the people, and that he was doing this because he wished to refute the slanders of his opponents and to make his own purpose clear to the city; just then, someone arrived from a ship at the prytaneum, announcing the enslavement of the Cians and the cruelty of Philip that had taken place in these events, so that the Rhodians, while the ambassador was still in the middle of saying the aforementioned things, when the prytanis came forward and made clear the reports, were unable to believe it because of the extreme nature of the perfidy. Philip, then, having broken treaties not so much with the Cians as with himself, had reached such a state of ignorance or rather deviation from duty that he took pride in and boasted of as noble things for which he ought to have been exceedingly ashamed; and the people of the Rhodians from that day on regarded Philip as an enemy, and made their preparations with this goal in mind. And he aroused a similar hatred against himself among the Aetolians as well as a result of this action; for although he had recently come to terms and was extending his hands to their nation, and though there was no pretext, while Aetolians, Lysimacheans, Chalcedonians, and Cians had been their friends and allies a short time before, first he won over the city of the Lysimacheans, tearing it away from the alliance with the Aetolians, secondly that of the Chalcedonians, and thirdly he enslaved that of the Cians, although an Aetolian general was residing in it and presiding over public affairs.
Προυσίας δέ, §15.23.10καθὸ μὲν ἡ πρόθεσις αὐτοῦ συντελείας ἔτυχε, περιχαρὴς ἦν, καθὸ δὲ τὰ μὲν ἆθλα τῆς ἐπιβολῆς ἕτερος ἀπέφερεν, αὐτὸς δὲ πόλεως οἰκόπεδον ἔρημον ἐκληρονόμει, δυσχερῶς διέκειτο, ποιεῖν δʼ οὐδὲν οἷός τʼ ἦν. —
And Prusias, insofar as his purpose had been accomplished, was overjoyed; but insofar as another carried off the prizes of the enterprise, while he himself inherited only the empty site of a city, he was displeased, but was able to do nothing. —