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Byzantium, Rhodes, and Prusias Treaties
But seeing the confident spirit of the Byzantines, the
The Rhodians secure the friendship of Achaeus.
Rhodians adopted an exceedingly able plan to
obtain their object. They perceived that the
resolution of the Byzantines in venturing on
the war rested mainly on their hopes of the
support of Achaeus. Now they knew that the father of
Achaeus was detained at Alexandria, and that Achaeus was
exceedingly anxious for his father's safety: they therefore hit
upon the idea of sending an embassy to Ptolemy, and asking
him to deliver this Andromachus to them. This request,
indeed, they had before made, but without laying any great
stress upon it: now, however, they were genuinely anxious for
it; that, by doing this favour to Achaeus, they might lay him
under such an obligation to them, that he would be unable to
refuse any request they might make to him. When the
ambassadors arrived, Ptolemy at first deliberated as to detaining Andromachus; because there s
Death of Cleomenes
He therefore waited for the time at which the king left
Bold attempt of Cleomenes to recover his liberty. His failure and death, B.C. 220.
Alexandria for Canopus, and then spread a
report among his guards that he was going to
be released by the king; and on this pretext
entertained his own attendants at a banquet,
and sent out some flesh of the sacrificial victims,
some garlands, and some wine to his guards.
the latter indulged in these good things unsuspiciously, and
became completely drunk; whereupon Cleomenes walked out
about noon, accompanied by his friends and servants armed
with daggers, without being noticed by his guard. As the
party advanced they met Ptolemy in the street, who had been
left by the king in charge of the city; and overawing his
attendants by the audacity of his proceeding, dragged Ptolemy
himself from his chariot and put him in a place of security,
while they loudly called upon the crowds of citizens to assert
their freedom. But every one was
Claims of Antiochus and Ptolemy
Meanwhile Antiochus was extremely anxious to have
Antiochus's case.
as much the advantage over the government
of Alexandria in diplomatic argument as
he had in arms. Accordingly when the ambassadors
arrived at Seleucia, and both parties began, in accordance
with the instructions of Sosibius, to discuss the clauses
of the proposed arrangement in detail, the king made very
light of the loss recently sustained by Ptolemy, and the
injury which had been manifestly inflicted upon him by the
existing occupation of Coele-Syria; and in the pleadings on
this subject he refused to look upon this transaction in the light
of an injury at all, alleging that the places belonged to him of
right. Ptolemy, son of Lagus, B. C. 323-285.He asserted that the original occupation of the country
by Antigonus the One-eyed, and the royal authority exercised
over it by Seleucus,Seleucus I., B. C. 306-280. Antigonus, the One-eyed, in B. C. 318,
occupied Coele-Syria and Phoenicia af