§4.49.1ὁ δὲ Προυσίας ἐνεκάλει μὲν πρότερον τοῖς Βυζαντίοις ὅτι ψηφισαμένων τινὰς εἰκόνας αὐτοῦ ταύτας οὐκ ἀνετίθεσαν, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἐπισυρμὸν καὶ λήθην ἄγοιεν,
Prusias, on his part, had previously been harboring grievances against the Byzantines, because, although they had voted to set up certain statues of him, they had not erected them, but let them fall into neglect and oblivion.
§4.49.2δυσηρέστει δʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ πᾶσαν προσενέγκασθαι φιλονεικίαν εἰς τὸ διαλῦσαι τὴν Ἀχαιοῦ πρὸς Ἄτταλον ἔχθραν καὶ τὸν πόλεμον, νομίζων κατὰ πολλοὺς τρόπους ἀλυσιτελῆ τοῖς αὑτοῦ πράγμασιν ὑπάρχειν τὴν ἐκείνων φιλίαν.
He was also displeased with them because they had exerted every effort to put an end to the hostility and war between Achaeus and Attalus, believing as he did that the friendship between those two would be in many ways disadvantageous to his own interests.
§4.49.3ἠρέθιζε δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸ δοκεῖν Βυζαντίους πρὸς μὲν Ἄτταλον εἰς τοὺς τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἀγῶνας τοὺς συνθύσοντας ἐξαπεσταλκέναι, πρὸς αὐτὸν δʼ εἰς τὰ Σωτήρια μηδένα πεπομφέναι.
He was further irritated by the fact that the Byzantines appeared to have dispatched envoys to Attalus to join in sacrificing at the games of Athena, whereas they had sent no one to him for the Soteria.
§4.49.4διόπερ ἐκ πάντων τούτων ὑποικουρουμένης παρʼ αὐτῷ τῆς ὀργῆς, ἄσμενος ἐπελάβετο τῆς τῶν Ῥοδίων προφάσεως, καὶ συγκαταθέμενος τοῖς πρεσβευταῖς ἐκείνους μὲν ᾤετο δεῖν κατὰ θάλατταν πολεμεῖν, αὐτὸς δὲ κατὰ γῆν οὐκ ἐλάττω βλάψειν ἔδοξε τοὺς ὑπεναντίους.
For all these reasons, therefore, since his resentment was smoldering within him, he gladly seized upon the pretext offered by the Rhodians; and agreeing with their ambassadors, he thought that they ought to wage war by sea, while he himself resolved to inflict no less damage on the enemy by land.
§4.49.5ὁ μὲν οὖν Ῥοδίων πρὸς Βυζαντίους πόλεμος
Such, then, was the origin of the war of the Rhodians against the Byzantines—