§15.24.1ὅτι Φίλιππος κατὰ τὸν ἀνάπλουν ἕτερον ἐφʼ ἑτέρῳ παρασπόνδημα μεταχειριζόμενος προσέσχε περὶ μέσον ἡμέρας πρὸς τὴν τῶν Θασίων πόλιν, καὶ ταύτην φιλίαν οὖσαν ἐξηνδραποδίσατο. — §15.24.2Θάσιοι εἶπον πρὸς Μητρόδωρον τὸν Φιλίππου στρατηγὸν παραδοῦναι τὴν πόλιν εἰ διατηρήσοι αὐτοὺς ἀφρουρήτους, ἀφορολογήτους, ἀνεπισταθμεύτους, νόμοις χρῆσθαι τοῖς ἰδίοις. —
συγχωρεῖν τὸν βασιλέα Θασίους ἀφρουρήτους, §15.24.3ἀφορολογήτους, ἀνεπισταθμεύτους, νόμοις χρῆσθαι τοῖς ἰδίοις.
Philip, on his voyage, practicing one treaty-breaking after another, put in about midday at the city of the Thasians, and enslaved it, although it was a friendly one. — The Thasians told Metrodorus, the general of Philip, that they would surrender the city if he would keep them free from garrisons, free from tribute, free from quartering, and (allow them) to use their own laws. — (Metrodorus replied that) the king agreed that the Thasians should be free from garrisons, free from tribute, free from quartering, and to use their own laws.
ἐπισημηναμένων δὲ μετὰ κραυγῆς πάντων τὰ ῥηθέντα παρήγαγον τὸν Φίλιππον εἰς τὴν πόλιν. — §15.24.4ἴσως μὲν γὰρ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς κατὰ τὰς πρώτας ἀρχὰς πᾶσι προτείνουσι τὸ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ὄνομα καὶ φίλους προσαγορεύουσι καὶ συμμάχους τοὺς κοινωνήσαντας σφίσι τῶν αὐτῶν ἐλπίδων, καθικόμενοι δὲ τῶν πράξεων παρὰ πόδας οὐ συμμαχικῶς, ἀλλὰ δεσποτικῶς χρῶνται τοῖς πιστεύσασι·
When everyone had approved the terms with shouts, they conducted Philip into the city. — For perhaps all kings in their first beginnings hold out the name of freedom to everyone, and address as friends and allies those who have shared the same hopes with them; but when they have achieved their goals, they immediately treat those who trusted them not like allies, but like masters.
§15.24.5διὸ καὶ τοῦ μὲν καλοῦ διαψεύδονται, τοῦ δὲ παραυτὰ συμφέροντος ὡς ἐπίπαν οὐκ ἀποτυγχάνουσι·
For which reason also they are disappointed of the reputation of beauty, but they generally do not fail to obtain their immediate advantage.
§15.24.6τὸ δʼ ἐπιβαλλόμενον τοῖς μεγίστοις καὶ περιλαμβάνοντα ταῖς ἐλπίσι τὴν οἰκουμένην καὶ πάσας ἀκμὴν ἀκεραίους ἔχοντα τὰς ἐπιβολὰς εὐθέως ἐν τοῖς ἐλαχίστοις καὶ πρώτοις τῶν ὑποπιπτόντων ἐπικηρύττειν ἅπασι τὴν ἀθεσίαν αὑτοῦ καὶ τὴν ἀβεβαιότητα πῶς οὐκ ἂν δόξειεν ἀλόγιστον εἶναι καὶ μανικόν;
But for one who is aiming at the greatest prizes, embracing the whole world in his hopes, and having all his enterprises as yet unimpaired, immediately to proclaim to all his own perfidy and untrustworthiness in the case of the smallest and the very first of those who fell into his power, how could this not seem irrational and insane?