第4巻 第18章

Greek Ἦν δέ τις ἐν τοῖς Θεοδώρου τοῦ Καππαδόκου δορυφόροις, Μαξιμῖνος ὄνομα, πονηρὸς μάλιστα.

Dewing Now there was among the body-guards of Theodorus, the Cappadocian, a certain Maximinus, an exceedingly base man.

Greek οὗτος ὁ Μαξιμῖνος, τῶν στρατιωτῶν πλείστους διομοσαμένους ἐπὶ τὴν πολιτείαν ξὺν αὑτῷ ἔχων,

Dewing This Maximinus had first got a very large number of the soldiers to join with him in a conspiracy against the government, and was now purposing to attempt a tyranny.

Greek τυραννίδι ἐπιθέσθαι διενοεῖτο. ἔτι τε πλείους ἑταιρίζεσθαι ἐν σπουδῇ ἔχων ἄλλοις τε τὸ βούλευμα φράζει καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ, ὡρμημένῳ μὲν ἐκ Παλαιστίνης, εὖ δὲ γεγονότι καὶ πρώτῳ τῶν Θεοδώρου ἐπιτηδείων.

Dewing And being eager to associate with himself still more men, he explained the project to others and especially to Asclepiades, a native of Palestine, who was a man of good birth and the first of the personal friends of Theodorus.

Greek ὁ γοῦν Ἀσκληπιάδης Θεοδώρῳ κοινολογησάμενος τὸν πάντα λόγον εὐθὺς Γερμανῷ εἰσαγγέλλει.

Dewing Now Asclepiades, after conversing with Theodorus, straightway reported the whole matter to Germanus.

Greek καὶ ὅς, οὐκ ἐθέλων ἔτι οἱ τῶν πραγμάτων ᾐωρημένων ἑτέρας τινὸς ταραχῆς ἄρξαι, θωπείᾳ μᾶλλόν τινι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἢ τιμωρίᾳ περιελθεῖν ἔγνω καὶ ὅρκοις αὐτὸν καταλαβεῖν τῆς ἐς τὴν πολιτείαν εὐνοίας.

Dewing And he, not wishing as yet, while affairs were still unsettled, to begin any other disturbance, decided to get the best of the man by cajoling and flattering him rather than by punishment, and to bind him by oaths to loyalty toward the government.

Greek ὂν τοίνυν εἰθισμένον ἅπασι Ῥωμαίοις ἐκ παλαιοῦ μηδένα δορυφόρον τῶν τινος ἀρχόντων καθίστασθαι, ἢν μὴ δεινοτάτους πρότερον ὅρκους παρεχόμενος τὰ πιστὰ δοίη τῆς ἐς αὐτόν τε καὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ῥωμαίων εὐνοίας, μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν Μαξιμῖνον τῆς τε εὐτολμίας αὐτὸν ἐπῄνει καὶ δορυφορεῖν τὸ λοιπόν οἱ ἐπέτελλεν.

Dewing Accordingly, since it was an old custom among all the Romans that no one should become a body-guard of one of the commanders, unless he had previously taken the most dread oaths and given pledges of his loyalty both toward his own commander and toward the Roman emperor, he summoned Maximinus, and praising him for his daring, directed him to be one of his body-guards from that time forth.

Greek ὁ δὲ περιχαρὴς γεγονὼς τῷ ὑπερβάλλοντι τῆς τιμῆς, ταύτῃ τε ῥᾷον αὐτῷ τὴν ἐπίθεσιν προχωρήσειν ὑποτοπάζων, τόν τε ὅρκον ὑπέστη καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐν τοῖς Γερμανοῦ δορυφόροις ταττόμενος τά τε ὀμωμοσμένα εὐθὺς ἀλογεῖν ἠξίου καὶ τὰ ἐς τὴν τυραννίδα πολλῷ ἔτι μᾶλλον κρατύνασθαι.

Dewing And he, being overjoyed at the extraordinary honour, and conjecturing that his project would in this way get on more easily, took the oath, and though from that time forth he was counted among the body-guards of Germanus, he did not hesitate to disregard his oaths immediately and to strengthen much more than ever his plans to achieve the tyranny.

Greek Ἡ μὲν οὖν πόλις ἑορτήν τινα πανδημεὶ ἦγε, πολλοὶ δὲ τῶν Μαξιμίνου στασιωτῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν τοῦ ἀρίστου καιρὸν ἐς Παλάτιον κατὰ τὰ σφίσι ξυγκείμενα ἧκον, οὗ δὴ ὁ μὲν Γερμανὸς τοὺς ἐπιτηδείους εἱστία, παρεστήκει δὲ τῇ θοίνῃ ξὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις δορυφόροις ὁ Μαξιμῖνος.

Dewing Now the whole city was celebrating some general festival, and many of the conspirators of Maximinus at about this time of lunch came according to their agreement to the palace, where Germanus was entertaining his friends at a feast, and Maximinus took his stand beside the couches with the other body-guards.

Greek προϊόντος δὲ τοῦ πότου, εἰσελθών τις Γερμανῷ ἀπαγγέλλει στρατιώτας πολλοὺς κόσμῳ οὐδενὶ πρὸ τῆς αὐλείου θύρας ἑστῶτας αἰτιᾶσθαι συντάξεις χρόνου πολλοῦ τὸ δημόσιον σφίσιν ὀφείλειν.

Dewing And as the drinking proceeded, someone entered and announced to Germanus that many soldiers were standing in great disorder before the door of the court, putting forward the charge that the government owed them their pay for a long period.

Greek καὶ ὃς τῶν δορυφόρων τοὺς πιστοτάτους ἐκέλευσε λάθρα τὸν Μαξιμῖνον ἐν φυλακῇ ἔχειν, αἴσθησιν αὐτῷ τινα τοῦ ποιουμένου ὡς ἥκιστα παρεχομένους.

Dewing And he commanded the most trusty of the guards secretly to keep close watch over Maximinus, allowing him in no way to perceive what was being done.

Greek οἱ μὲν οὖν στασιῶται ξύν τε ἀπειλῇ καὶ ταραχῇ ἐπὶ τὸν ἱππόδρομον δρόμῳ ἐχώρουν οἵ τε τῆς βουλῆς αὐτοῖς μετασχόντες κατὰ βραχὺ ἀγειρόμενοι ἐκ τῶν οἰκημάτων ἐνταῦθα ξυνέρρεον.

Dewing Then the conspirators with threats and tumult proceeded on the run to the hippodrome, and those who shared their plan with them gathered gradually from the houses and were assembling there.

Greek καὶ εἰ μὲν ξυλλεγῆναι ἅπαντας ἐς ταὐτὸ ἔτυχεν, οὐκ ἄν τις, οἶμαι,

Dewing And if it had so chanced that all of them had come together, no one, I think, would have been able easily to destroy their power;

Greek καταλύειν αὐτῶν τὴν δύναμιν εὐπετῶς ἔσχε· νῦν δὲ Γερμανὸς προτερήσας ἔτι ἀπολελειμμένου τοῦ πλείστου ὁμίλου ἅπαντας αὐτίκα τοὺς αὐτῷ τε καὶ βασιλεῖ εὐνοϊκῶς ἔχοντας ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἔπεμψεν.

Dewing but, as it was, Germanus anticipated this, and, before the greater part had yet arrived, he straightway sent against them all who were well-disposed to himself and to the emperor.

Greek οἳ δὴ οὐ προσδεχομένοις τοῖς στασιώταις εἰς χεῖρας ἦλθον. οἱ δὲ οὔτε Μαξιμῖνον σὺν αὑτοῖς ἔχοντες, ὅνπερ σφίσιν ἐξηγήσεσθαι τοῦ κινδύνου ἐκαραδόκουν, οὔτε τὸ πλῆθος ὁρῶντες αὑτοῖς, ᾗπερ ᾤοντο, ξυλλεγέν, ἀλλὰ καὶ μαχομένους παρὰ δόξαν σφίσι τοὺς ξυστρατιώτας θεώμενοι καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐς ὀλιγωρίαν ἐλθόντες ἡσσήθησάν τε ῥᾳδίως τῇ μάχῃ καὶ κόσμῳ οὐδενὶ ἐς φυγὴν ὥρμηντο.

Dewing And they attacked the conspirators before they expected them. And then, since Maximinus, for whom they were waiting to begin the battle for them, was not with them, and they did not see the crowd gathered to help them, as they had thought it would be, but instead even beheld their fellow-soldiers unexpectedly fighting against them, they consequently lost heart and were easily overcome in the struggle and rushed off in flight and in complete disorder.

Greek καὶ αὐτῶν οἱ ἐναντίοι πολλοὺς μὲν ἔκτεινον, πολλοὺς δὲ παρὰ Γερμανὸν ζωγρήσαντες ἦγον.

Dewing And their opponents slew many of them, and they also captured many alive and brought them to Germanus.

Greek ὅσοι μέντοι οὐκ ἔφθησαν εἰς τὸν ἱππόδρομον ἥκοντες, οὐδεμίαν αἴσθησιν τῆς ἐπὶ Μαξιμίνῳ παρέσχοντο γνώμης.

Dewing These, however, who had not already come to the hippodrome gave no indication of their sentiment toward Maximinus.

Greek Γερμανὸς δὲ αὐτοὺς μὲν διερευνᾶσθαι οὐκέτι ἠξίου, ἀνεπυνθάνετο δὲ εἰ Μαξιμίνῳ ἐπειδὴ ὠμωμόκει, τὰ ἐς τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ἤσκητο.

Dewing And Germanus did not see fit to go on and seek them out, but he enquired whether Maximinus, since he had sworn the oath, had taken part in the plot.

Greek ἐληλεγμένον τε ὡς ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῦ δορυφόροις ταττόμενος τὴν ἐπίθεσιν ἔτι μᾶλλον ποιοίη, ἄγχιστά πη αὐτὸν τοῦ Καρχηδόνος περιβόλου ἀνεσκολόπισεν οὕτω τε τὴν στάσιν παντάπασιν καταλύειν ἔσχε. Μαξιμίνου μὲν ἡ ἐπιβουλὴ ἐτελεύτησεν ὧδε.

Dewing And since it was proved that, though numbered among his own body-guards he had carried on his designs still more than before, Germanus impaled him close by the fortifications of Carthage, and in this way succeeded completely in putting down the sedition. As for Maximinus, then, such was the end of his plot.