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Often appears with: war with rome · the rise and fall of greatness · euboea · ephesus · diplomacy and embassies · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
“Such justification did not apply to the present circumstances; for as these old friendly relations had been broken off by them, and the existing hostility was owing entirely to the Aetolians themselves, the services of the past could be of no assistance to them in the present.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · precept
“But with the Romans for a man ‘to commit himself to their good faith’ is held to be equivalent to ‘surrendering unconditionally.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · observation
Antiochus the Great arrives in Chalcis in Euboea, completes a marriage at age fifty, and spends the winter in festivities despite the Roman war; he later flees with his bride to Ephesus after defeat.
[Sidenote: Antiochus wintering in Chalcis, B.C. 192-191.] +8.+ Antiochus the Great came to Chalcis in Euboea, and there completed his marriage, when he was fifty years old, and had already undertaken his two most important labours, the liberation of Greece—as he called it—and the war with Rome. However, having fallen in love with a young lady of Chalcis, he was bent on marrying her, though the war was still going on…