“1. ὁ δὲ δὴ Ἀουῖτος εἴτε Ψευδαντωνῖνος εἴτε καὶ Ἀσσύριος ἢ καὶ Σαρδανάπαλλος Τιβερῖνός τε ῾καὶ γὰρ καὶ 1 ταύτην τὴν προσηγορίαν, ἐπειδὴ τὸ σῶμα σφαγέντος αὐτοῦ ἐς τόν Τίβεριν ἐνεβλήθη, ἔλαβεν᾽ τότε μὲν μετὰ τὴν νίκην ἔς τε [p. 438] τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐσῆλθε, πεντακοσίας τοῖς ἀμφ᾽ αὐτὸν στρατιώταις δραχμάς, ὅπως μὴ διαρπάσωσιν αὐτήν, οὗπερ τὰ μάλιστα ἐπεθύμουν, προϋποσχόμενος: 2 ἅς που καὶ παρὰ τοῦ [2] δήμου ἐσέπραξεν: καὶ ἐς τὴν Ῥώμην ἄλλα τε οἷα εἰκὸς ἦν ἐπέστειλε, πολλὰ μὲν τὸν Μακρῖνον ἄλλως τε καὶ ἐς τὴν δυσγένειαν τήν τε ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀντωνῖνον ἐπιβουλὴν διαβάλλων ῾πρὸς γοῦν τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῦτο ἔφη ὅτι ‘ᾧ μηδ᾽ ἐσελθεῖν ἐς τὸ συνέδριον μετὰ τὸ κήρυγμα τὸ χωρὶς τῶν βουλευτῶν τοὺς λοιποὺς ἐξεῖργον 3 ἐξῆν, οὗτος ἐτόλμησεν τὸν αὐτοκράτορα, οὗ τὴν φρουρὰν ἐπεπίστευτο, δολοφονήσας τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτοῦ παρασπάσασθαι καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ πρότερον ἢ βουλευτὴς [3] γενέσθαι’᾿, πολλὰ δὲ καὶ περὶ ἑαυτοῦ οὐχ ὅτι τοῖς στρατιώταις ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ βουλῇ τῷ τε δήμῳ καθυπισχνούμενος ῾κατά τε γὰρ τὸν τοῦ Αὐγούστου, ᾧ καὶ τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀφωμοίου, καὶ κατὰ τὸν τοῦ Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ Μάρκου ζῆλον ἅπαντα ἅπαξ πράξειν ἐπηγγείλατὀ, [4] καὶ δῆτα καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἔγραψεν, αἰνιττόμενος πρὸς τὰς διαβολὰς τὰς ἐς αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ Μακρίνου θρυληθείσας, ὅτι ‘τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν ἐμὴν διαβαλεῖν ἐπεχείρησεν, αὐτὸς πενταετῆ υἱὸν ἀποδείξας.’
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Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.
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