§29.8.1πίδα ταύτην.
...hope.
ἡ μὲν οὖν καταρχὴ τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐπιπλοκῆς δοκεῖ μοι διὰ ταῦτα γεγονέναι·
The origin, then, of their mutual intercourse, seems to me to have arisen from these causes.
§29.8.2δυεῖν δὲ συγκρινομένων, τοῦ μὲν πανουργοτάτου δοκοῦντος εἶναι, τοῦ δὲ φιλαργυρωτάτου, γελοίαν συνέβαινε γίνεσθαι τὴν διαμάχην αὐτῶν.
When the two were compared, one being thought the most crafty and the other the most avaricious, their contest turned out to be ridiculous.
§29.8.3ὁ μὲν γὰρ Εὐμένης πᾶσαν ἐλπίδα προύτεινε καὶ πᾶν γένος δελέατος ὑπερρίπτει, πεπεισμένος θηρεύσειν τὸν Περσέα ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις· §29.8.4ὁ δὲ Περσεὺς μακρόθεν ὥρμα πρὸς τὰ προτεινόμενα καὶ συνετίθετο, καταπιεῖν δὲ τῶν λεγομένων οὐδὲν οἷός τʼ ἦν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ὥστε καὶ προέσθαι τι τῶν αὑτοῦ.
For Eumenes held out every hope and threw out every kind of bait, being convinced that he would catch Perseus with his promises; while Perseus rushed from afar towards the proposals and agreed to them, but was unable to swallow any of what was said to the extent of parting with any of his own property.
§29.8.5τὸ δὲ γένος τῶν παλαισμάτων ἦν τοιοῦτον.
The nature of their wrestling was as follows.
ὁ μὲν γὰρ Εὐμένης ᾔτει τοῦ μὲν ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν κατὰ τὸ τέταρτον ἔτος καὶ μὴ συστρατεῦσαι Ῥωμαίοις μήτε κατὰ γῆν μήτε κατὰ θάλατταν πεντακόσια τάλαντα, τοῦ δὲ διαλῦσαι τὸν πόλεμον χίλια πεντακόσια, καὶ τούτων ὁμήρους δώσειν κατὰ τάχος ὑπισχνεῖτο καὶ πίστεις.
Eumenes demanded five hundred talents for remaining quiet during the fourth year and not joining the Romans in war either by land or sea, and fifteen hundred for terminating the war, and promised to give hostages and guarantees for these quickly.
§29.8.6ὁ δὲ Περσεὺς ἐδέχετο περὶ τῶν ὁμήρων καὶ πόσα καὶ πότε πέμπεσθαι καὶ πῶς δεήσει ταῦτα τηρεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῖς Κνωσίοις· §29.8.7περὶ δὲ τῶν χρημάτων ὑπὲρ μὲν τῶν πεντακοσίων ταλάντων αἰσχρὸν ἔφησεν εἶναι καὶ τῷ διδόντι καὶ μᾶλλον ἔτι τῷ λαμβάνοντι τὸ δοκεῖν μισθοῦ τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν, τὰ δὲ χίλια καὶ πεντακόσια πέμψειν φέροντας ἔφη τοὺς περὶ Πολεμοκράτην εἰς Σαμοθρᾴκην κἀκεῖ μεσιτεύσειν.
Perseus accepted the terms regarding the hostages, as to how many and when they should be sent, and how they should be kept in custody by the Cnossians; but regarding the money, he said that as for the five hundred talents, it was disgraceful both to the giver and still more to the receiver to seem to keep quiet for hire, but as for the fifteen hundred, he said he would send those with Polemocrates to carry them to Samothrace and deposit them there.
τῆς δὲ Σαμοθρᾴκης αὐτὸς ἦν κύριος· ὁ δʼ Εὐμένης σπουδάζων, §29.8.8καθάπερ οἱ μοχθηροὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν, περὶ τὸ πρόδομα μᾶλλον ἢ περὶ τὸν μισθὸν τέλος ἀπέστη τῆς ἐπιβολῆς, ἀδυνατήσας καταγωνίσασθαι τῇ σφετέρᾳ πανουργίᾳ τὴν τοῦ Περσέως μικρολογίαν.
But he himself was master of Samothrace; and Eumenes, being eager, like bad physicians who care more for the advance payment than for the final fee, at last abandoned his attempt, being unable to overcome Perseus's meanness with his own craftiness.
§29.8.9καὶ δὴ τῷ τοιούτῳ τρόπῳ ποιήσαντες ἱερὸν τὸν στέφανον τῆς φιλαργυρίας διελύθησαν ἐπʼ ἴσης, καθάπερ ἀγαθοὶ παλαισταί.
And indeed, having in this manner made the crown of avarice sacred, they parted on equal terms, like good wrestlers.
§29.8.10τούτων δʼ ἔνια μὲν ἐξερρύη παρʼ αὐτὸν τὸν καιρόν, ἔνια δὲ μετʼ ὀλίγον εἰς τοὺς παρακειμένους τῷ Περσεῖ φίλους, παρʼ ὧν ἡμῖν ἐξεποίησε πυθέσθαι διότι πάσης κακίας ὡσανεὶ πατταλεῖόν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία.
Some of these details leaked out at that very time, and some a little later among the friends of Perseus who were close to him, from whom it was possible for us to learn that avarice is, as it were, the peg of every vice.