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Appian, Syrian Wars (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER VIII (search)
Appian, Syrian Wars (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER XI (search)
The Murder of Octavius
After the Ptolemies had made their partition of the
B. C. 162. Euergetes II. (Ptolemy Physcon), who had Cyrene as his share, asks for Cyprus.
kingdom, the younger brother arrived in Rome
desiring to set aside the division made between
himself and his brother, on the ground that he had
not acceded to the arrangement voluntarily, but
under compulsion, and yielding to the force of
circumstances. He therefore begged the Senate
to assign Cyprus to his portion; for, even if that were done, he
should still have a much poorer share than his
brother. The members of the Commission Canuleius and Quintus supported
Menyllus, the ambassador of the elder Ptolemy,
by protesting that "the younger Ptolemy owed
his possession of Cyrene and his very life to
them, so deep was the anger and hatred of the common
people to himThe anger of the Alexandrians had been excited against Ptolemy Physcon
by his having, for some unknown reason, caused the death of Timotheus, who
had been Ptole
Demetrius Appeals Again to the Senate
News having come to Rome of the disaster by which
B. C. 162. The Senate pay little attention to Lysias's excuses.
Gnaeus Octavius lost his life, ambassadors also
arrived from king Antiochus, sent by Lysias,
who vehemently protested that the king's
friends had had no part in the crime. But the
Senate showed scant attention to the envoys, not wishing to
make any open declaration on the subject or to allow their
opinion to become public in any way.
But Demetrius was much excited by the news, and immediately summoned Polybius to an interview,
andDemetrius thinks there is again a chance for him. Polybius advises, "act for yourself."
consulted him as to whether he should once
more bring his claims before the Senate. Polybius advised him "not to stumble twice on the
same stone," but to depend upon himself and
venture something worthy of a king; and he
pointed out to him that the present state of affairs offered him
many opportunities. Demetrius underst
The Rhodians Lapse in Dignity
The Rhodians, though in other respects maintaining
The Rhodians accept money to pay their school masters, B. C. 162.
the dignity of their state, made in my opinion a
slight lapse at this period. They had received two
hundred and eighty thousand medimni of corn
from Eumenes, that its value might be invested
and the interest devoted to pay the fees of the tutors and schoolmasters of their sons. One might accept this from friends in a case
of financial embarrassment, as one might in private life, rather
than allow children to remain uneducated for want of means;
but where means are abundant a man would rather do anything than allow the schoolmaster's fee to be supplied by a
joint contribution from his friends. And in proportion as a
state should hold higher notions than an individual, so ought
governments to be more jealous of their dignity than private
men, and above all a Rhodian government, considering the
wealth of the country and its high pretensions.
The Two Ptolemies
After this the younger Ptolemy arrived in Greece with
Ptolemy Physcon returning with the commissioners, collects mercenaries in Greece, but is persuaded to disband them, B. C. 162.
the Roman commissioners, and began collecting
a formidable army of mercenaries, among whom
he enlisted Damasippus the Macedonian, who,
after murdering the members of the council at
Phacus, fled with his wife and children from
Macedonia, and after reaching Peraea, opposite
Rhodes, and being entertained by the people
there, determined to sail to Cyprus. But when Torquatus and his
colleagues saw that Ptolemy had collected a formidable corps of
mercenaries, they reminded him of their commission, which
was to restore him "without a war," and at last persuaded him
to go as far as Side (in Pamphylia), and there disband his
mercenaries, give up his idea of invading Cyprus, and meet
them on the frontiers of Cyrene. He, however, takes about 100 Cretans back with him to Africa. Meanwhile, they said
Demetrius and Ariarathes
When Menochares arrived in Antioch to visit Demetrius,
Demetrius induces Tiberius Gracchus to salute him as king.
and informed the kingDemetrius was now king. On his escape from Rome, described in bk. 31,
chs. 20-23, he had met with a ready reception in Syria, had seized the sovereign
power, and put the young Antiochus and his minister Lysias to death; this was
in B.C. 162. Appian, Syriac, ch. 47, of the conversation he
had had with the commission under Tiberius
Gracchus in Cappadocia, the king, thinking it a
matter of the most urgent necessity to get these
men on his side as much as he could, devoted
himself, to the exclusion of every other business, to sending
messages to them, first to Pamphylia, and then to Rhodes,
undertaking to do everything the Romans wished; till at last
he extracted their acknowledgment of him as king. The fact
was that Tiberius was very favourably disposed to him; and,
accordingly, materially contributed to the success of his
attem
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), The Eunuch (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE
TITLEColman has the following remark on this
Play: "This seems to lave been the most popular of all the Comedies of
Terence. Suetonius and Donatus both inform us that it was acted with the
greatest applause, and that the Poet received a larger price for it from
the Aediles than had ever been paid for any before, namely, 8000
sesterces, which is about equal to 200 crowns, which in those times was
a considerable sum."
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