Ἀντώνιος

Sections

1.1 – 2.1 2.2 – 2.4 2.5 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.4 6.1 – 6.4 6.5 – 7.1 7.2 – 8.1 8.2 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 9.6 10.1 – 10.3 10.4 – 11.1 11.2 – 12.1 12.2 – 12.4 13.1 – 13.2 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 15.1 15.2 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 16.4 – 17.1 17.2 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.4 19.1 – 19.3 20.1 – 20.3 21.1 – 21.4 22.1 – 22.3 22.4 – 23.1 23.2 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 24.5 – 24.6 24.7 – 25.1 25.2 – 25.4 26.1 – 26.3 26.4 – 27.2 27.3 – 28.1 28.2 – 28.4 28.5 – 28.7 29.1 – 29.2 29.3 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 31.1 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.3 32.4 – 33.1 33.2 – 33.3 33.4 – 34.1 34.2 – 34.4 34.5 – 35.2 35.3 – 35.5 36.1 – 36.2 36.3 – 37.1 37.2 – 37.4 38.1 – 38.2 38.3 – 39.2 39.3 – 39.4 39.5 – 39.7 40.1 – 40.2 40.3 – 40.4 40.5 – 41.1 41.2 – 41.3 41.4 – 42.1 42.2 – 42.3 42.4 – 43.1 43.2 – 44.1 44.2 – 45.1 45.2 – 45.3 45.4 – 45.6 46.1 – 46.3 46.4 – 47.1 47.2 – 47.3 47.4 – 48.2 48.3 – 49.1 49.2 – 49.4 50.1 – 50.3 50.4 – 51.2 52.1 – 53.1 53.2 – 53.3 53.4 – 53.6 54.1 – 54.3 54.4 – 54.6 55.1 – 55.2 56.1 – 56.3 56.4 – 57.2 57.3 – 58.1 58.2 – 58.4 58.5 – 59.1 59.2 – 59.4 60.1 – 60.2 60.3 – 61.2 61.3 – 62.1 62.2 – 62.3 63.1 – 63.2 63.3 – 63.5 63.6 – 64.2 65.1 – 65.3 65.4 – 66.1 66.2 – 66.3 66.4 – 67.1 67.2 – 67.4 67.5 – 68.1 68.2 – 68.4 68.5 – 69.1 69.2 – 69.4 70.1 – 70.2 70.3 – 71.1 71.2 – 71.4 71.5 – 72.3 73.1 – 73.3 74.1 – 74.3 75.1 – 75.4 76.1 – 76.3 76.4 – 77.1 77.2 – 77.4 78.1 – 78.3 78.4 – 79.2 79.3 – 80.2 80.3 – 81.2 82.1 – 83.1 83.2 – 83.4 83.5 – 84.2 84.3 – 85.2 85.3 – 86.1 86.2 – 86.4 86.5 – 87.2 87.3 – 87.4

İngilizce Yunanca

24.7 And his wantonness in mirth and jest carried its own remedy with it. For a man might pay back his jests and insolence, and he delighted in being laughed at no less than in laughing at others. And this vitiated most of his undertakings. For he could not believe that those who used bold speech in jest could flatter him in earnest, and so was easily captivated by their praises,

24.8 not knowing that some men would mingle bold speech, like a piquant sauce, with flattery, and thus would take away from flattery its cloying character. Such men would use their bold babbling over the cups to make their submissive yielding in matters of business seem to be the way, not of those who associate with a man merely to please him, but of those who are vanquished by superior wisdom.

25.1 Such, then, was the nature of Antony, where now as a crowning evil his love for Cleopatra supervened, roused and drove to frenzy many of the passions that were still hidden and quiescent in him, and dissipated and destroyed whatever good and saving qualities still offered resistance. And he was taken captive in this manner. As he was getting ready for the Parthian war, he sent to Cleopatra, ordering her to meet him in Cilicia in order to make answer to the charges made against her of raising and giving to Cassius much money for the war.