§40.24.1Demetrium iterum ad patrem accusavit Perseus.
Perseus accused Demetrius again to his father.
fuga per Paeoniam praeparata arguebatur et corrupti quidam, ut comites itineris essent; maxime falsae litterae T. Quinctii urgebant.
A flight prepared through Paeonia was urged, and that certain persons had been corrupted to be companions of his journey; especially the forged letter of T. Quinctius pressed hard upon him.
§40.24.2nihil tamen palam gravius pronuntiatum de eo est, ut dolo potius interficeretur, nec id cura ipsius, sed ne poena eius consilia adversus Romanos nudaret.
However, nothing more severe was publicly pronounced against him, so that he might rather be put to death by treachery, and that not from regard for him, but lest his punishment should disclose the designs against the Romans.
§40.24.3ab Thessalonice Demetriadem ipsi cum iter esset, Astraeum Paeoniae Demetrium mittit cum eodem comite Dida, Perseum Amphipolin ad obsides Thracum accipiendos.
When the king himself was on his journey from Thessalonica to Demetrias, he sent Demetrius to Astraeum in Paeonia with the same companion Dida, and Perseus to Amphipolis to receive the hostages of the Thracians.
§40.24.4digredienti ab se Didae mandata dedisse dicitur de filio occidendo.
As Dida was departing from him, the king is said to have given him orders about putting his son to death.
sacrificium ab Dida seu institutum seu simulatum est, §40.24.5ad quod celebrandum invitatus Demetrius ab Astraeo Heracleam venit.
A sacrifice was either instituted or pretended by Dida, invited to celebrate which, Demetrius came from Astraeum to Heraclea.
in ea cena dicitur venenum datum.
At that dinner, poison is said to have been given.
poculo epoto extemplo sensit, §40.24.6et mox coortis doloribus, relicto convivio cum in cubiculum recepisset sese, crudelitatem patris conquerens, parricidium fratris ac Didae scelus incusans torquebatur.
Having drained the cup, he immediately felt it, and soon, pains having arisen, having left the banquet when he had withdrawn into his bedchamber, complaining of his father's cruelty, and accusing his brother's parricide and Dida's crime, he was tortured.
§40.24.7intromissi deinde Thyrsis quidam Stuberraeus et Beroeaeus Alexander iniectis tapetibus in caput faucesque spiritum intercluserunt.
Then, a certain Thyrsis of Stubera and Alexander of Beroea having been let in, throwing blankets over his head and throat, stopped his breath.
§40.24.8ita innoxius adulescens, cum in eo ne simplici quidem genere mortis contenti inimici fuissent, interficitur.
Thus the innocent youth, since his enemies had not been content with even a single kind of death in his case, was killed.