§10.1Huius rex animi magnitudinem admirans cupiensque talem virum sibi conciliari veniam dedit.
The king, admiring this man's greatness of mind and desiring such a man to be won over to him, granted his request.
ille omne illud tempus litteris sermonique Persarum dedit: quibus adeo eruditus est, ut multo commodius dicatur apud regem verba fecisse, quam ii poterant, qui in Perside erant nati.
He devoted all that time to the literature and language of the Persians; in which he became so well instructed, that he is said to have spoken before the king much more fluently than those could who had been born in Persia.
§10.2hic cum multa regi esset pollicitus gratissimumque illud, si suis uti consiliis vellet, illum Graeciam bello oppressurum, magnis muneribus ab Artaxerxe donatus in Asiam rediit domiciliumque Magnesiae sibi constituit.
Having promised many things to the king, and especially that most pleasing promise, that if he wished to employ his counsels, he would crush Greece in war, he returned to Asia, presented with great gifts by Artaxerxes, and established his home at Magnesia.
§10.3namque hanc urbem ei rex donarat, his quidem verbis, quae ei panem praeberet (ex qua regione quinquagena talenta quotannis redibant), Lampsacum autem, unde vinum sumeret, Myunta, ex qua obsonium haberet.
For the king had given him this city with these words: that it should provide him with bread (from which district fifty talents came in yearly), Lampsacus, however, from which he might get wine, and Myus, from which he might have side-dishes.
Huius ad nostram memoriam monumenta manserunt duo: sepulcrum prope oppidum, in quo est sepultus, statua in foro Magnesiae.
Two monuments of this man have remained to our memory: a tomb near the town, in which he is buried, and a statue in the forum of Magnesia.
§10.4de cuius morte multimodis apud plerosque scriptum est, sed nos eundem potissimum Thucydidem auctorem probamus, qui illum ait Magnesiae morbo mortuum neque negat fuisse famam, venenum sua sponte sumpsisse, cum se, quae regi de Graecia opprimenda pollicitus esset, praestare posse desperaret.
Concerning his death, there are various accounts among most writers, but we accept the same Thucydides especially as our authority, who says that he died of disease at Magnesia, and does not deny that there was a report that he took poison of his own accord, when he despaired of being able to perform what he had promised the king concerning the crushing of Greece.
§10.5idem ossa eius clam in Attica ab amicis sepulta, quoniam legibus non concederetur, quod proditionis esset damnatus, memoriae prodidit.
The same author has also handed down to memory that his bones were buried secretly in Attica by his friends, since it was not permitted by the laws because he had been condemned for treason.