§2.60.1τῶν προγόνων ἀσεβήματα· μακρὸν γάρ.
...and the impieties of his ancestors; for it would be a long story.
διόπερ οὐκ εἴ τινι τῶν ὁμοίων περιέπεσε δεινὸν ἡγητέον, πολὺ δὲ δεινότερον, εἰ μηδενὸς τούτων πεῖραν λαβὼν ἀθῷος ἀπέθανεν.
Therefore, we must not consider it terrible if he fell into any similar fate, but much more terrible if he had died unpunished without having experienced any of these things.
§2.60.2οὐδʼ Ἀντιγόνῳ προσαπτέον οὐδʼ Ἀράτῳ παρανομίαν, ὅτι λαβόντες κατὰ πόλεμον ὑποχείριον τύραννον στρεβλώσαντες ἀπέκτειναν, ὅν γε καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰρήνην τοῖς ἀνελοῦσι καὶ τιμωρησαμένοις ἔπαινος καὶ τιμὴ συνεξηκολούθει παρὰ τοῖς ὀρθῶς λογιζομένοις.
Nor must we impute lawlessness to Antigonus or to Aratus, because having captured a tyrant in war they put him to death under torture, since even in peace itself, praise and honor would follow those who removed and punished such a person, in the eyes of right-thinking men.
§2.60.3ὅτε δὲ χωρὶς τῶν προειρημένων καὶ τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς παρεσπόνδησεν, τί παθεῖν ἦν ἄξιος;
But when, besides what has been said, he also broke faith with the Achaeans, what did he deserve to suffer?
§2.60.4ἐκεῖνος γὰρ ἀπέθετο μὲν τὴν τυραννίδα χρόνοις οὐ πολλοῖς πρότερον, ὑπὸ τῶν καιρῶν συγκλειόμενος διὰ τὸν Δημητρίου θάνατον, ἀνελπίστως δὲ τῆς ἀσφαλείας ἔτυχε περισταλεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν Ἀχαιῶν πρᾳότητος καὶ καλοκἀγαθίας· §2.60.5οἵτινες οὐ μόνον αὐτὸν τῶν ἐκ τῆς τυραννίδος ἀσεβημάτων ἀζήμιον ἐποίησαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσλαβόντες εἰς τὴν πολιτείαν τὴν μεγίστην τιμὴν περιέθεσαν, ἡγεμόνα καὶ στρατηγὸν καταστήσαντες σφῶν αὐτῶν.
For he had laid down his tyranny not long before, being hemmed in by the circumstances because of the death of Demetrius, and unexpectedly obtained safety, being protected by the gentleness and goodness of the Achaeans; who not only made him exempt from punishment for his impieties during his tyranny, but also, admitting him into their commonwealth, bestowed upon him the greatest honor, appointing him leader and general of themselves.
§2.60.6ὁ δʼ ἐπιλαθόμενος τῶν προειρημένων φιλανθρώπων παρὰ πόδας, ἐπεὶ μικρὸν ἐπικυδεστέρας ἔσχε τὰς ἐλπίδας ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντος ἐν Κλεομένει, τήν τε πατρίδα καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ προαίρεσιν ἀποσπάσας ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐν τοῖς ἀναγκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς προσένειμε τοῖς ἐχθροῖς.
But he, forgetting the aforementioned acts of kindness immediately, when he had slightly more glorious hopes for the future in Cleomenes, tore away his homeland and his own allegiance from the Achaeans and attached them to the enemies at the most critical moment.
§2.60.7ὃν ὑποχείριον γενόμενον οὐκ ἐν Κεγχρεαῖς ἔδει τὴν νύκτα στρεβλούμενον ἀποθανεῖν, ὡς Φύλαρχός φησιν, περιαγόμενον δʼ εἰς τὴν Πελοπόννησον καὶ μετὰ τιμωρίας παραδειγματιζόμενον οὕτως ἐκλιπεῖν τὸ ζῆν.
When he fell into their hands, he ought not to have died under torture at Cenchreae in the night, as Phylarchus says, but to have been led around the Peloponnese and made an example of with punishment, and so to have departed this life.
§2.60.8ἀλλʼ ὅμως τοιοῦτος ὢν οὐδενὸς ἔτυχε δεινοῦ πλὴν τοῦ καταποντισθῆναι διὰ τῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς Κεγχρεαῖς τεταγμένων.
But nevertheless, being such a man, he met with no terrible fate except for being drowned by those stationed at Cenchreae.