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his right eye, is killed by Pausanias the shield-bearer in the theater. And when a very great commotion of the soldiers occurred at his death, the rule remained vacant for four years. 41aSuidas v. Alexander: That Alexander the Macedonian lived a wonderful life. And the accomplishment of his struggles provided a sure pledge for what has been said. For it is not possible to find in the whole circle of the world one man excelling in so many achievements. For among the best men in words he was found to be no less than those praised to the highest degree, and turning to matters of war he accomplished things more wonderful than worthy of belief. And having joined battle with Darius the king of the Persians, he defeats him completely. And that man asks to come to a reconciliation and to give him his daughter Roxane for the fellowship of marriage. The same man, having subjugated all the nations, was corrupted in mind, etc.Exc. De virt.: That Alexander the Macedonian, having overthrown the kingdom of the Persians and having killed Darius, was corrupted in mind, and slipped into the pleasures of the body, and having put on Persian dress, and being guarded by ten thousand youths, and using three hundred concubines, so as to transform the entire Macedonian custom of kings into the Persian one, and from this to kill some of his own men who were slandered, namely Lanches and Parmenion, leaders of the camp, and not a few of the Macedonian youth. Suidas l. l: But later, having arrived in India, he was captured by Candace the queen in the guise of a private citizen. And she said to him: "Alexander, o king, you have taken the world and have been restrained by a woman?" And he made peace with her, and kept her country unharmed. 42aExc. De ins.: That Alexander the Macedonian, as John of Antioch says, after so many achievements, having received poison from Cassander his own general, departed this life. Suidas v. Alexander: "That the same man met with eight hundred men who had long ago been taken in Greece by the Persians, whose hands had been mutilated, whom he treated kindly with great gifts and comforted. And having arrived at the lake in Alexandria, he lost his diadem, when a great rainstorm broke out, and with difficulty he swam to the land. And having received poison from Cassander his own general, he was torn apart. And thus after so many achievements he departed this life. 43 Exc. De virt.: That Lucius Valerius Publicola the consul departed this life, so much a beggar and without money that he was buried with public funds by the people, and the women throughout the city lamented him in a similar way to Brutus, since he had also been his colleague in the expulsion of the tyrants. 44 Exc. De ins.: That in the sixth year of the consulate after the expulsion of the tyrants, when Cassius and Sulpicius had taken up the office, the city came to every danger, when the slave population was persuaded by the tyrants to attack the property owners at night, and to kill the men in their beds, when they themselves would advance, and those of the citizens who helped them might seize the strongholds of the city. But none of these things came to pass, as Sulpicius the consul prudently arrested the leaders of the enterprise, and calmed down the agitated part of the populace. 45 Ibid.: That in the ninth year of freedom, when Poplius Caminius and Titus Lucius were consuls, since Mamilius, a man Latin by race, and having great power among his countrymen, and living with the youngest of Tarquin's daughters, having stirred up the whole race of the Latins, and having gathered a large mercenary force, he demanded to avenge his relatives by marriage, who had been dishonorably thrust from power, the senate, fearing the multitude of the enemy cloud, finds a new kind of leadership, having appointed then for the first time a dictator, who in the Greek tongue would be called a proposer of advantageous things; surpassing indeed the authority of the consuls, but to the

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τὸν δεξιὸν ὀφθαλμὸν, ὑπὸ Παυσανίου τοῦ ὑπασπιστοῦ διαφθείρεται ἐν θεάτρῳ· κινήσεώς τε μεγίστης τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπὶ τῷ θανάτῳ τούτου γενομένης, ἔμεινεν ἡ ἀρχὴ τετραετίαν γυμνή. 41aSuidas v. Ἀλέξανδρος: Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδὼν θαυμαστὸν βίον ἐβίωσε. Πίστιν δὲ τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐχέγγυον ἡ τῶν ἀγώνων παρέσχε πρᾶξις. Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ἐν παντὶ τῷ τοῦ κόσμου κύκλῳ ἕνα ἄνδρα τοσούτοις κατορθώμασι πλεονεκτοῦντα. Τοῖς τε γὰρ ἀρίστοις ἀνδράσιν εἴς (τε) λόγους οὐ μείων τῶν εἰς ἄκρον ἐπαινουμένων εὑρέθη, πρός τε τὰ πολέμια διελθὼν θαυμαστὰ μᾶλλον ἢ πειθοῦς ἄξια διεπράξατο. Καὶ πρὸς ∆αρεῖον τὸν Περσῶν βασιλέα συνάψας πόλεμον, τοῦτον κατακράτος νικᾷ. Κἀκεῖνος αἰτεῖται εἰς διαλλαγὰς ἐλθεῖν καὶ δοῦναι αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα Ῥωξάνην πρὸς γάμου κοινωνίαν. Ὁ αὐτὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη καταστρεψάμενος διεφθάρη τὸν νοῦν, etc.Exc. De virt.: Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδὼν τὴν τῶν Περσῶν βασιλείαν καθελὼν καὶ τὸν ∆αρεῖον ἀνελὼν διεφθάρη τὸν νοῦν, καὶ πρὸς τὰς τοῦ σώματος ἡδονὰς διωλίσθησε, Περσικήν τε στολὴν ἐνδυσάμενος, μυρίοις δὲ νέοις δορυφορούμενος, τριακοσίαις τε παλλακαῖς χρώμενος, ὡς τὴν Μακεδονικὴν πᾶσαν τῶν βασιλέων συνήθειαν εἰς Πέρσας μεταρρυθμίσαι, ἐντεῦθέν τέ τινας τῶν ἰδίων διαβληθέντας ἀνελεῖν, Λαγχέα μὲν καὶ Παρμενίωνα τοῦ στρατοπέδου ἐξάρχοντας τῆς τε Μακεδονικῆς νεολαίας οὐκ ὀλίγους. Suidas l. l: Ὕστερον δὲ εἰς Ἰνδίαν ἀφικόμενος ὑπὸ Κανδάκης τῆς βασιλίσσης συνελήφθη ἐν ἰδιώτου σχήματι. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· «Ἀλέξανδρε βασιλεῦ, τὸν κόσμον παρέλαβες καὶ ὑπὸ γυναικὸς συνεσχέθης;» Καὶ εἰρήνην πρὸς αὐτὴν ἐποιήσατο, καὶ τὴν χώραν αὐτῆς ἀβλαβῆ διεφύλαξεν. 42aExc. De ins.: Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδὼν, ὥς φησι Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἀντιοχεὺς, ἐπὶ τοσούτοις κατορθώμασιν ὑπὸ Κασάνδρου τοῦ ἰδίου στρατηγοῦ φάρμακον δεξάμενος τὸν βίον μετήλλαξεν. Suidas v. Ἀλέξανδρος: «Ὅτι ὁ αὐτὸς ὀκτακοσίοις ἀνδράσιν ἐνέτυχεν ὑπὸ Περσῶν πάλαι ἐν Ἑλλάδι ληφθεῖσιν, ἀκρωτηριασμένοις τὰς χεῖρας, οὓς μεγάλαις δωρεαῖς ἐφιλοφρονήσατο καὶ παρεμυθήσατο. Εἰς δὲ τὴν λίμνην τὴν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ ἀφικόμενος τὸ διάδημα ἀπέβαλεν, ὄμβρου πολλοῦ καταρραγέντος, καὶ μόλις ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν διενήξατο. Καὶ ὑπὸ Κασάνδρου τοῦ ἰδίου στρατηγοῦ φάρμακον δεξάμενος ἐσπαράχθη. Καὶ οὕτως ἐπὶ τοσούτοις κατορθώμασι τὸν βίον μετήλλαξεν. 43 Exc. De virt.: Ὅτι Λούκιος Βαλέριος Ποπλικόλας ὕπατος καταλείπει τὸν βίον, οὕτω δὴ μέταιτός τε καὶ χρημάτων ἄπορος ὡς κοινοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου ταφῆναι χρήμασι, τάς τε κατὰ τὴν πόλιν γυναῖκας παραπλησίως αὐτὸν ἀποθρηνῆσαι τῷ Βρούτῳ, ἐπειδὰν καὶ συνῆρξεν αὐτῷ τῆς τῶν τυράννων ἐξόδου. 44 Exc. De ins.: Ὅτι ἕκτῳ τῆς ὑπατείας χρόνῳ μετὰ τὴν τῶν τυράννων ἐξέλασιν, Κασσίου τε καὶ Σουλπικίου τὴν ἀρχὴν παραλαβόντων, ἐς πᾶν μὲν κινδύνου προῆλθεν ἡ πόλις, τοῦ δουλικοῦ πλήθους ὑπὸ τῶν τυράννων ἀναπεισθέντος ἐπιθέσθαι νύκτωρ τοῖς κεκτημένοις, καὶ διαφθεῖραι τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐν ταῖς εὐναῖς, ἐπειδὰν αὐτοί τε προσάγωσι, καὶ οἱ συλλαβόμενοι σφίσι τῶν πολιτῶν τὰ ἐρυμνὰ καταλάβοιεν τοῦ ἄστεως. Οὐ μὴν ἀπέβη τι τούτων, Σουλπικίου τοῦ ὑπάτου σωφρόνως τούς θ' ἡγεμόνας τῆς ἐπιχειρήσεως συλλαβόντος, καὶ τὸ κεκινημένον τοῦ δημοτικοῦ κατασπάσαντος. 45 Ibid.: Ὅτι ἐνάτῳ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἐνιαυτῷ, Πόπλου Καμινίου καὶ Τίτου Λευκίου ὑπατευόντων, ἐπειδὴ Μαμήλιος ἀνὴρ Λατῖνος μὲν τὸ γένος, καὶ μέγα παρὰ τοῖς ὁμοφύλοις δυνάμενος, συνοικῶν δὲ τῶν Ταρκυνίου θυγατρῶν τῇ νεωτάτῃ, ἀναστήσας πανδημεὶ τὸ Λατίνων γένος, χεῖρά τε μισθοφόρον πολλὴν ἀγείρας, τιμωρεῖν τοῖς κηδεσταῖς, ἀτίμως παρεωσμένοις τῆς δυναστείας, ἠξίου, ἡ βουλὴ (δὲ) καταδείσασα τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ πολεμίου νέφους, καινὸν ἡγεμονίας ἀνευρίσκει γένος, προχειρισαμένη τότε πρῶτον δικτάτορα, ὃς καθ' Ἑλλάδα γλῶτταν κληθείη ἂν εἰσηγητὴς τῶν λυσιτελῶν· ὑπερέχων μὲν τῆς τῶν ὑπάτων ἀρχῆς, τοῖς δὲ