§5.43.1ρίαν.
-syria.
ὄντος δʼ αὐτοῦ κατὰ τοὺς καιροὺς τούτους περὶ Σελεύκειαν τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ζεύγματος, παρῆν Διόγνητος ὁ ναύαρχος ἐκ Καππαδοκίας τῆς περὶ τὸν Εὔξεινον, ἄγων Λαοδίκην τὴν Μιθριδάτου τοῦ βασιλέως θυγατέρα, παρθένον οὖσαν, γυναῖκα τῷ βασιλεῖ κατωνομασμένην.
While he was about this time around Seleucia on the Zeugma, Diognetus the admiral arrived from Cappadocia on the Euxine, bringing Laodice, the daughter of King Mithridates, a virgin who had been betrothed to the king.
§5.43.2ὁ δὲ Μιθριδάτης εὔχετο μὲν ἀπόγονος εἶναι τῶν ἑπτὰ Περσῶν ἑνὸς τῶν ἐπανελομένων τὸν μάγον, διατετηρήκει δὲ τὴν δυναστείαν ἀπὸ προγόνων τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὐτοῖς διαδοθεῖσαν ὑπὸ Δαρείου παρὰ τὸν Εὔξεινον πόντον.
Mithridates claimed to be a descendant of one of the seven Persians who had assassinated the Magus, and had maintained the principality from his ancestors, which had been originally handed down to them by Darius by the Euxine Sea.
§5.43.3Ἀντίοχος δὲ προσδεξάμενος τὴν παρθένον μετὰ τῆς ἁρμοζούσης ἀπαντήσεως καὶ προστασίας εὐθέως ἐπετέλει τοὺς γάμους, μεγαλοπρεπῶς καὶ βασιλικῶς χρώμενος ταῖς παρασκευαῖς.
Antiochus, having received the virgin with the appropriate meeting and escort, immediately celebrated the marriage, making the preparations magnificently and in a manner worthy of a king.
§5.43.4μετὰ δὲ τὴν συντέλειαν τῶν γάμων καταβὰς εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν, βασίλισσαν ἀποδείξας τὴν Λαοδίκην, λοιπὸν ἐγίνετο περὶ τὴν τοῦ πολέμου παρασκευήν.
After the completion of the marriage, having gone down to Antioch and declared Laodice queen, he subsequently occupied himself with the preparation for the war.
κατὰ δὲ τοὺς καιροὺς τούτους Μόλων, §5.43.5ἑτοίμους παρεσκευακὼς πρὸς πᾶν τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας σατραπείας ὄχλους διά τε τὰς ἐλπίδας τὰς ἐκ τῶν ὠφελειῶν καὶ τοὺς φόβους, οὓς ἐνειργάσατο τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν ἀνατατικὰς καὶ ψευδεῖς εἰσφέρων ἐπιστολὰς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως, §5.43.6ἕτοιμον δὲ συναγωνιστὴν ἔχων τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἀλέξανδρον, ἠσφαλισμένος δὲ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὰς παρακειμένας σατραπείας διὰ τῆς τῶν προεστώτων εὐνοίας καὶ δωροδοκίας, ἐξεστράτευσε μετὰ μεγάλης δυνάμεως ἐπὶ τοὺς τοῦ βασιλέως στρατηγούς.
About this same time, Molo, having prepared the multitudes of his own satrapy to be ready for anything, both through the hopes arising from plunder and the fears which he inspired in the officers by presenting forged and threatening letters from the king, and having his brother Alexander as a ready fellow-combatant, and having also secured the affairs in the neighboring satrapies through the goodwill and bribery of their governors, marched out with a large force against the generals of the king.
§5.43.7οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ξένωνα καὶ Θεόδοτον καταπλαγέντες τὴν ἔφοδον ἀνεχώρησαν εἰς τὰς πόλεις.
Those around Xenon and Theodotus, terrified by the attack, retreated into the cities.
§5.43.8ὁ δὲ Μόλων κύριος γενόμενος τῆς Ἀπολλωνιάτιδος χώρας εὐπορεῖτο ταῖς χορηγίαις ὑπερβαλλόντως.
Molo, having become master of the territory of Apolloniatis, was abundantly supplied with provisions beyond measure.
ἦν δὲ φοβερὸς μὲν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῆς
He had indeed been formidable even before this because of the greatness of...