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Often appears with: diplomacy and embassies · treaty violation · the rise and fall of greatness · roman legates · revolution and the fall of states · hieronymus’s council · euboea · ephesus · conquest, plunder, and captives · antiochus marriage at chalcis
Usually: narrative (2) · detachment (2) · betrayal (1) · injustice endured (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the fall of the great (1) · lament (1)
“With how much more reason might the space employed on these descriptions,—which they use merely to fill up and spin out their books,—have been devoted to Hiero and Gelo, without mentioning Hieronymus at all! It would have given greater pleasure to readers and more instruction to students.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) · observation
“And what is quite as surprising as the innocence of his acquisition of power is the fact that it did not change his character.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) · insight
“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
Romans send legates protesting Hieronymus’s treaty violation; Hieronymus consults his council, and the pro-Roman and anti-Roman options are weighed until war with Rome is decided, followed by Hieronymus’s provocative demands.
[Sidenote: Fall of Hieronymus, B.C. 214.] +7.+ Some of the historians who have described the fall of Hieronymus have written at great length and in terms of mysterious solemnity. They tell us of prodigies preceding his coming to the throne, and of the misfortunes of Syracuse. They describe in dramatic language the cruelty of his character and the impiety of his actions; and crown all with the sudden and terrible nat…
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…