§22.14.1του προβάντες ἔλυσαν·
...having gone so far, they broke up the meeting.
κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἄππιον πέμπειν ἐπέταττον τῷ Φιλίππῳ τὸν Ὀνόμαστον καὶ τὸν Κάσσανδρον ἐξ αὐτῆς εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην [ἵνα πύθηται περὶ τῶν γεγονότων].
On the following day, Appius and his colleagues ordered Philip to dispatch Onomastus and Cassander immediately to Rome, so that the Senate might inquire about what had happened.
§22.14.2ὁ δὲ βασιλεύς, διατραπεὶς ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα καὶ ἀπορήσας ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον, τὸν μὲν Κάσσανδρον ἔφη πέμψειν, τὸν αὐθέντην γεγονότα τῆς πράξεως, ὡς ἐκεῖνοί φασιν, ἵνα πύθηται παρὰ τούτου τὰς ἀληθείας ἡ σύγκλητος.
The king, extremely disconcerted and embarrassed for a long time, said that he would send Cassander, who had been the actual perpetrator of the deed, as they asserted, so that the Senate might learn the truth from him.
§22.14.3τὸν δʼ Ὀνόμαστον ἐξῃρεῖτο καὶ παρʼ αὐτὰ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τοῖς πρεσβευταῖς ἐντυγχάνων, ἀφορμῇ μὲν χρώμενος τῷ μὴ οἷον ἐν τῇ Μαρωνείᾳ παραγεγονέναι τὸν Ὀνόμαστον κατὰ τὸν τῆς σφαγῆς καιρόν, ἀλλὰ μηδʼ ἐπὶ τῶν σύνεγγυς τόπων γεγονέναι,
But he tried to exempt Onomastus, both at that moment and in his subsequent interviews with the envoys, using the pretext that Onomastus, far from having been in Maroneia at the time of the slaughter, had not even been in the neighboring districts.
§22.14.4τῇ δʼ ἀληθείᾳ δεδιὼς μὴ παραγενηθεὶς εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην, καὶ πολλῶν ἔργων αὐτῷ κεκοινωνηκὼς τοιούτων, οὐ μόνον τὰ κατὰ τοὺς Μαρωνείτας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τἄλλα πάντα διασαφήσῃ τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις.
But in truth he was afraid lest, if he should go to Rome, having been his accomplice in many such deeds, he might reveal to the Romans not only the business of the Maronites but all his other actions as well.
§22.14.5καὶ τέλος τὸν μὲν Ὀνόμαστον ἐξείλετο, τὸν δὲ Κάσσανδρον μετὰ τὸ τοὺς πρεσβευτὰς ἀπελθεῖν ἀποστείλας καὶ παραπέμψας ἕως Ἠπείρου φαρμάκῳ διέφθειρεν.
And finally he succeeded in exempting Onomastus, but as for Cassander, having dispatched him after the departure of the envoys and escorted him as far as Epirus, he destroyed him with poison.
§22.14.6οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ἄππιον, κατεγνωκότες τοῦ Φιλίππου καὶ περὶ τῆς εἰς τοὺς Μαρωνείτας παρανομίας καὶ περὶ τῆς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἀλλοτριότητος, τοιαύτας ἔχοντες διαλήψεις ἐχωρίσθησαν.
Appius and his colleagues, having condemned Philip both for his lawless conduct toward the Maronites and for his hostility toward the Romans, departed with these convictions.
§22.14.7ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς γενόμενος καθʼ ἑαυτὸν καὶ συμμεταδοὺς τῶν φίλων Ἀπελλῇ καὶ Φιλοκλεῖ περὶ τῶν ἐνεστώτων, ἔγνω σαφῶς ἐπὶ πολὺ προβεβηκυῖαν αὑτοῦ τὴν πρὸς Ῥωμαίους διαφοράν, καὶ ταύτην οὐκέτι λαν
θάνουσαν, ἀλλὰ καταφανῆ τοῖς πλείστοις οὖσαν.
The king, when he was by himself, having communicated with his friends Apelles and Philocles about the present situation, clearly realized that his disagreement with the Romans had advanced very far, and that this was no longer a secret but manifest to most people.
§22.14.8καθόλου μὲν οὖν πρόθυμος ἦν εἰς τὸ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ἀμύνασθαι καὶ μετελθεῖν αὐτούς· πρὸς ἔνια δὲ τῶν ἐπινοουμένων ἀπόχειρος ὢν ἐπεβάλετο πῶς ἂν ἔτι γένοιτό τις ἀναστροφὴ καὶ λάβοι χρόνον πρὸς τὰς εἰς τὸν πόλεμον παρασκευάς.
On the whole, then, he was eager to defend himself and take vengeance on them in every possible way; but being unprepared for some of the things he had in mind, he considered how he might still effect a delay and gain time for his preparations for war.
§22.14.9ἔδοξεν οὖν αὐτῷ τὸν νεώτατον υἱὸν Δημήτριον πέμπειν εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην, τὰ μὲν ἀπολογησόμενον ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐγκαλουμένων, τὰ δὲ καὶ παραιτησόμενον, εἰ καί τις ἄγνοιά ποτʼ ἐγεγόνει περὶ αὐτόν.
Accordingly, he decided to send his youngest son Demetrius to Rome, partly to make defense against the charges and partly to beg indulgence, even if any error had been committed by him through ignorance.
§22.14.10πάνυ γὰρ ἐπέπειστο διὰ τούτου πᾶν τὸ προτεθὲν ἀνύεσθαι παρὰ τῆς συγκλήτου διὰ τὴν ὑπεροχὴν τὴν γεγενημένην τοῦ νεανίσκου κατὰ τὴν ὁμηρείαν.
For he was fully convinced that through him everything proposed would be accomplished by the Senate, owing to the high favor the young man had won during his residence as a hostage.
§22.14.11ταῦτα δὲ διανοηθεὶς ἅμα μὲν ἐγίνετο περὶ τὴν ἐκπομπὴν τούτου καὶ τῶν ἅμα τούτῳ συνεξαποσταλησομένων φίλων, §22.14.12ἅμα δὲ τοῖς Βυζαντίοις ὑπέσχετο βοηθήσειν, οὐχ οὕτως ἐκείνων στοχαζόμενος ὡς ἐπὶ τῇ ʼκείνων προφάσει βουλόμενος καταπλήξασθαι τοὺς τῶν Θρᾳκῶν δυνάστας τῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν Προποντίδα κατοικούντων χάριν τῆς προκειμένης ἐπιβολῆς.
Reflecting on these things, on the one hand he busied himself with the dispatch of his son and of the friends who were to be sent along with him, and on the other hand promised to assist the Byzantines, not so much because he cared for them, but because under their pretext he wished to strike terror into the Thracian chieftains who dwelt beyond the Propontis, for the sake of his proposed enterprise.