§1062Σατραπεῖαι δὲ ἦσαν ὑπʼ αὐτῷ δύο καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα· τοσαύτης ἐβασίλευε γῆς.
There were seventy-two satrapies under him; over so great a land did he rule.
καὶ τὴν πλείονα τῷ παιδὶ παραδούς, ἦρχε τῶν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἐπὶ Εὐφράτην μόνων.
And having delivered the greater part of it to his son, he ruled only over the territories from the sea to the Euphrates.
καὶ πόλεμον τελευταῖον Λυσιμάχῳ περὶ Φρυγίαν τὴν ἐφʼ Ἑλλησπόντῳ πολεμῶν, Λυσιμάχου μὲν ἐκράτει πεσόντος ἐν τῇ μάχῃ, αὐτὸς δὲ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐπέρα.
And waging his last war against Lysimachus concerning Phrygia on the Hellespont, he defeated Lysimachus, who fell in the battle, and he himself crossed the Hellespont.
καὶ ἐς Λυσιμάχειαν ἀναβαίνων κτείνεται.
And as he was going up to Lysimacheia, he was killed.
Πτολεμαῖος δʼ αὐτὸν ἑπόμενος ἔκτεινεν, ὅτῳ κεραυνὸς ἐπίκλησις.
Ptolemy, who followed him, killed him, the one surnamed Keraunos (the Thunderbolt).
υἱὸς δʼ ἦν ὁ κεραυνος ὅδε Πτολεμαίου τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ Εὐρυδίκης τῆς Ἀντιπάτρου· καὶ αὐτὸν ἐκπεσόντα Αἰγύπτου διὰ δέος, ὅτι νεωτάτῳ παιδὶ ὁ Πτολεμαῖος τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπενόει δοῦναι, ὁ Σέλευκος οἷα φίλου παῖδα ἀτυχοῦντα ὑπεδέξατο, καὶ ἔφερβε καὶ ἐπήγετο πάντῃ φονέα ἑαυτοῦ.
This Keraunos was the son of Ptolemy Soter (the Savior) and Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater; and when he fled from Egypt out of fear, because Ptolemy intended to give the rule to his youngest son, Seleucus received him as the unfortunate son of a friend, and nourished him and took him along everywhere—his own murderer.
§1063καὶ Σέλευκος μὲν οὕτω τελευτᾷ, τρία καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη βιώσας, καὶ βασιλεύσας αὐτῶν δύο καὶ τεσσαράκοντα.
Thus Seleucus died, having lived seventy-three years, and having ruled forty-two of them.
καὶ μοι δοκεῖ καὶ ἐς τοῦτο αὐτῷ συνενεχθῆναι τὸ αὐτὸ λόγιον,
μὴ σπεῦδʼ Εὐρώπηνδʼ· Ἀσίη τοι πολλὸν ἀμείνων. ἡ γὰρ Λυσιμάχεια τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐστί, καὶ τότε πρῶτον ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου στρατείας ἐς τὴν Εὐρώπην διεπέρα.
And it seems to me that even in this, the same oracle came to pass for him: "Haste not to Europe; Asia is far better for you." For Lysimacheia is in Europe, and then for the first time since Alexander's expedition did he cross over into Europe.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θανάτου ποτὲ αὐτῷ χρωμένῳ λόγιον προαγορευθῆναι
Ἄργος ἀλευόμενος τὸ πεπρωμένον εἰς ἔτος ἥξεις· εἰ δʼ Ἄργει πελάσαις, τότε κεν παρὰ μοῖραν ὄλοιο. ὁ μὲν δὴ Ἄργος τὸ Πελοποννήσιον καὶ Ἄργος τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ Ἄργος τὸ ἐν Ὀρεστείᾳ (ὅθεν οἱ Ἀργεάδαι Μακεδόνες) καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ λεγόμενον οἰκίσαι Διομήδην ἀλώμενον, καὶ εἴ τί που γῆς ἄλλο Ἄργος ἐκαλεῖτο, πάντα ἀνεζήτει καὶ ἐφυλάσσετο·
And it is said that regarding his death itself, an oracle was once foretold to him when he consulted it: "Shun Argos, and you shall reach your destined year; but if you draw near to Argos, then you shall perish contrary to fate." He indeed sought out and guarded against all of them: Peloponnesian Argos, Amphilochian Argos, Argos in Orestia (whence come the Argead Macedonians), and the one said to be in the Ionian Sea, founded by Diomedes in his wanderings, and if there were any other place on earth called Argos.
ἀναβαίνοντι δʼ ἐς τὴν Λυσιμάχειαν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου βωμὸς ἦν ἐν ὄψει μέγας τε καὶ περιφανής, καὶ πυθόμενος αὐτὸν ἢ τοὺς Ἀργοναύτας στήσασθαι παραπλέοντας ἐς Κόλχους ἢ τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς ἐπὶ Ἴλιον στρατεύοντας, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔτι τὸν βωμὸν τοὺς περιχώρους Ἄργος καλεῖν, ἢ διὰ τὴν ναῦν διαφθείροντας τὸ ὄνομα ἢ διὰ τὴν πατρίδα τῶν Ἀτρειδῶν, κτείνεται, ταῦτα ἔτι μανθάνων, ὑπὸ τοῦ Πτολεμαίου προσπεσόντος ὄπισθεν.
But as he was going up from the Hellespont to Lysimacheia, there was in his view a great and conspicuous altar, and when he learned that either the Argonauts had erected it as they sailed past to Colchis, or the Achaeans when they were campaigning against Ilium, and that for this reason the neighbors still called the altar Argos—either corrupting the name because of the ship (Argo) or because of the homeland of the Atreidae—he was killed, while still learning these things, by Ptolemy, who fell upon him from behind.
καὶ Σέλευκον μὲν ἔκαιε Φιλέταιρος ὁ Περγάμου δυναστεύσας, πολλῶν χρημάτων τὸ σῶμα τὸν κεραυνὸν αἰτήσας, καὶ τὰ λείψανα ἔπεμπεν Ἀντιόχῳ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ.
And Philetaerus, who ruled Pergamum, burned the body of Seleucus, having purchased it from Keraunos for a large sum of money, and sent the remains to his son Antiochus.
ὁ δʼ ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τῇ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ ἀπέθετο, καὶ νεὼν αὐτῷ ἐπέστησε καὶ τέμενος περιέθηκε· καὶ τὸ τέμενος Νικατόρειον ἐπικλῄζεται.
He deposited them in Seleucia by the sea, and erected a temple over him and surrounded it with a sacred enclosure; and the sacred enclosure is called the Nikatoreion.
§1064Λυσίμαχον δὲ πυνθάνομαι, τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν ὄντα τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου, παρατροχάσαι ποτὲ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον αὐτῷ, καὶ καμόντα, τῆς οὐρᾶς τοῦ βασιλέως ἵππου λαβόμενον, ἔτι συντρέχειν, πληγέντα δὲ ἐς τὸ μέτωπον ἐπὶ τὴν φλέβα τῷ τέλει τοῦ βασιλείου δόρατος αἱμορροεῖν· τὸν δὲ Ἀλέξανδρον, ἀπορίᾳ τελαμῶνος, τῷ διαδήματι αὐτοῦ τὸ τραῦμα περιδῆσαι, καὶ ἐμπλησθῆναι μὲν αἵματος τὸ διάδημα, τὸν δὲ Ἀλεξάνδρου μάντιν Ἀρίστανδρον φερομένῳ τῷ Λυσιμάχῳ καὶ ὧδε ἔχοντι ἐπειπεῖν ὅτι βασιλεύσει μὲν οὗτος ὁ ἀνήρ, βασιλεύσει δʼ ἐπιπόνως.
I learn that Lysimachus, who was one of Alexander's bodyguards, once ran alongside him for a very long distance, and when he was exhausted, he took hold of the tail of the king's horse and kept on running, but being struck on the forehead upon a vein by the butt end of the royal spear, he bled; and Alexander, for lack of a bandage, bound up the wound with his own diadem, and the diadem was filled with blood, and Alexander's seer Aristander, seeing Lysimachus being carried off in this state, remarked that this man would indeed be king, but would rule with toil.
ὁ μὲν δὴ καὶ ἐβασίλευσε τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη μάλιστα σὺν οἷς ἐσατράπευσε, καὶ ἐπιπόνως ἐβασίλευσε, καὶ ἑβδομηκοντούτης ὢν στρατευόμενος καὶ μαχόμενος ἔπεσεν.
And indeed he did rule for about forty years, including the time he was satrap, and he ruled with toil, and when he was seventy years old, while campaigning and fighting, he fell.
εὐθὺς δʼ ἐπαναιρεθέντος αὐτῷ τοῦ Σελεύκου, κείμενον τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Λυσιμάχου κύων οἰκεῖος, ἐς πολὺ ὑπερμαχῶν, ἀλύμαντον ἐξ ὀρνέων καὶ θηρίων διεφύλασσε, μέχρι Θώραξ ὁ Φαρσάλιος εὑρὼν ἔθαψεν.
Immediately when Seleucus rose up to take his place, a faithful domestic dog kept watch over the fallen body of Lysimachus, defending it for a long time, and preserved it untouched by birds and beasts, until Thorax of Pharsalus found it and buried it.
οἱ δὲ Ἀλέξανδρόν φασι θάψαι, τὸν αὐτοῦ Λυσιμάχου παῖδα, φυγόντα μὲν ὑπὸ δέους πρὸς Σέλευκον ὅτε Λυσίμαχος Ἀγαθοκλέα τὸν ἕτερον αὐτοῦ παῖδα ἀνεῖλεν, ἐρευνησάμενον δὲ ἐν τῷ τότε τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ κυνὸς μάλιστα ἀνευρόντα ἤδη διεφθαρμένον.
But others say that Alexander, Lysimachus' own son—who had fled out of fear to Seleucus when Lysimachus slew Agathocles, his other son—searched for the body at that time and found it, already decomposed, chiefly by means of the dog, and buried it.
τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ τοὺς Λυσιμαχέας ἐνθέσθαι τῷ σφετέρῳ ἱερῷ, καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν Λυσιμάχείον προσαγορεῦσαι.
And the people of Lysimacheia deposited his bones in their own temple, and called the temple the Lysimacheion.