§27.19.1ὅτι Ἀντίοχος ὁρῶν ἐκφανῶς ἤδη τοὺς κατὰ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παρασκευαζομένους εἰς τὸν περὶ Κοίλης Συρίας πόλεμον, εἰς μὲν τὴν Ῥώμην ἔπεμψε πρεσβευτὰς τοὺς περὶ Μελέαγρον, §27.19.2ἐντειλάμενος λέγειν τῇ συγκλήτῳ καὶ διαμαρτύρασθαι διότι παρὰ πάντα τὰ δίκαια Πτολεμαῖος αὐτῷ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπιβάλλει πρότερος —
That Antiochus, seeing that those in Alexandria were already openly preparing for the war over Coele-Syria, sent Meleager and his colleagues as ambassadors to Rome, with instructions to tell the senate and protest that Ptolemy, in defiance of all justice, was the first to lay hands on him —