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Polybius · The Histories §33.13.1-33.13.10

Expedition of Athenaeus and Peace Mediated by Rome

Passage 1235 of 1311 · Greek

Summary

Athenaeus, the brother of Attalus, ravaged Prusias' territory with an allied fleet, prompting the Roman Senate to dispatch new commissioners who successfully negotiated a peace treaty between the two kings.

§33.13.1κατὰ δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς καιροὺς Ἀθήναιος κατέπλευσε ναυσὶ καταφράκτοις ὀγδοήκοντα· §33.13.2ὧν αἱ πέντε μὲν τετρήρεις ἦσαν Ῥοδίων τῶν ἀποσταλεισῶν εἰς τὸν Κρητικὸν πόλεμον, εἴκοσι δὲ Κυζικηνῶν, ἑπτὰ δʼ ἐπὶ ταῖς εἴκοσι τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων.
At about the same time, Athenaeus sailed in with eighty decked ships; of which five were quadriremes belonging to the Rhodians who had been dispatched to the Cretan War, twenty belonged to the Cyzicenes, twenty-seven to Attalus and his followers, and the remainder to the other allies.
§33.13.3ποιησάμενος δὲ τὸν πλοῦν ἐφʼ Ἑλλησπόντου καὶ συνάψας ταῖς πόλεσι ταῖς ὑπὸ Προυσίαν ταττομέναις ἀποβάσεις τε συνεχεῖς ἐποιεῖτο καὶ κακῶς διετίθει τὴν χώραν.
Having steered his course towards the Hellespont and reached the cities under the rule of Prusias, he made continuous landings and ravaged their territory.
§33.13.4ἡ δὲ σύγκλητος διακούσασα τῶν παρὰ τοῦ Προυσίου πρεσβευτῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων ἐξ αὐτῆς τρεῖς ἄλλους ἀπέστειλεν, Ἄππιόν τε τὸν Κλαύδιον καὶ Λεύκιον Ὄππιον καὶ Αὖλον Ποστόμιον.
The senate, after hearing the envoys from Prusias and those who had returned from Asia, dispatched three other commissioners, Appius Claudius, Lucius Oppius, and Aulus Postumius.
§33.13.5οἳ καὶ παραγενόμενοι πρὸς τὴν Ἀσίαν διέλυσαν τὸν πόλεμον, εἰς τὰς τοιαύτας συνθήκας ἐπαγαγόμενοι τοὺς βασιλέας ἀμφοτέρους, §33.13.6ὥστε παραχρῆμα μὲν εἴκοσι καταφράκτους νῆας ἀποδοῦναι Προυσίαν Ἀττάλῳ, πεντακόσια δὲ τάλαντα κατενεγκεῖν ἐν ἔτεσιν εἴκοσι· §33.13.7τὴν δὲ χώραν ἀμφοτέρους ἔχειν ἣν καὶ πρότερον εἶχον, ὅτʼ εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ἐνέβαινον. §33.13.8διορθώσασθαι δὲ Προυσίαν καὶ τὴν καταφθορὰν τῆς χώρας τῆς τε Μηθυμναίων καὶ τῶν Αἰγαιέων καὶ τῆς Κυμαίων καὶ Ἡρακλειωτῶν, ἑκατὸν τάλαντα δόντα τοῖς προειρημένοις. §33.13.9γραφεισῶν δʼ ἐπὶ τούτοις τῶν συνθηκῶν, ἀπῆγον τὰς δυνάμεις εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, τὰς ναυτικὰς καὶ τὰς πεζικάς.
These men, on arriving in Asia, brought the war to an end, inducing both kings to accept a treaty on the following terms: namely, that Prusias should immediately deliver twenty decked ships to Attalus, and pay five hundred talents over twenty years; and that both should retain the territory which they had previously held when they entered the war; and that Prusias should also compensate for the devastation of the territories of the Methymnaeans, Aegaeans, Cymaeans, and Heracleots, by paying one hundred talents to the aforementioned; When the treaty had been drawn up on these terms, Attalus and his men withdrew their forces, both naval and land, to their own country.
§33.13.10καὶ τῆς μὲν Ἀττάλου καὶ Προυσίου διαφορᾶς τοιοῦτος ὅ τε κατὰ μέρος χειρισμὸς ἐγενήθη τῶν πράξεων
Such, then, was the detailed management of the affairs concerning the dispute between Attalus and Prusias.

Notes

  1. 33.13.2ὧν — The relative pronoun ὧν functions as a partitive genitive referring back to ναυσὶ καταφράκτοις ὀγδοήκοντα in the preceding sentence. The subsequent genitives Ῥοδίων, Κυζικηνῶν, τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἄτταλον, and τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων are possessive genitives, together delineating the composition of the fleet.
  2. 33.13.4ἀνακεχωρηκότων ἐξ αὐτῆς — The participle ἀνακεχωρηκότων (with its omitted article τῶν) is coordinated with τῶν παρὰ τοῦ Προυσίου πρεσβευτῶν as the object of the verb διακούσασα, which governs the genitive. It refers to the Roman commissioners who had returned from Asia, with the pronoun αὐτῆς referring back to Asia.
  3. 33.13.6ὥστε — The conjunction ὥστε introduces a clause of result or proviso. The infinitives ἀποδοῦναι, κατενεγκεῖν (in §33.13.6), ἔχειν (in §33.13.7), and διορθώσασθαι (in §33.13.8) are all governed by ὥστε in an accusative-with-infinitive construction, specifying the individual terms of the treaty.

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Polybius, The Histories §33.13.1-33.13.10. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:33.13.1-33.13.10

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