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Appian, Macedonian Affairs (ed. Horace White), Fragments (search)
Antiochus and Ptolemy Appeal to Rome
WHEN the war between the kings Antiochus and PtolemyAntiochus IV. Epiphanes, B. C. 175-164; Ptolemy VI. Philometor,
B. C. 169, Antiochus and Ptolemy both appeal to Rome on the subject of Coele-Syria.
B. C. 181-146.
for the possession of Coele-Syria had just
begun, Meleager, Sosiphanes, and Heracleides
came as ambassadors from Antiochus, and
Timotheos and Damon from Ptolemy. The
one actually in possession of Coele-Syria and
Phoenicia was Antiochus; for ever since his father's victory
over the generals of Ptolemy at PaniumSee 16, 18. all those districts had
been subject to the Syrian kings. Antiochus, accordingly,
regarding the right of conquest as the strongest and most
honourable of all claims, was now eager to defend these places
as unquestionably belonging to himself: while Ptolemy, conceiving that the late king Antiochus had unjustly taken
advantage of his father's orphan condition to wrest the cities in
Coele-Syria from him, was resolved not t
Pressure Put On Achaia and Aetolia
Aulus being thus Proconsul, and wintering in Thessaly
B. C. 169. Aulus Hostilius, in Greece with proconsular authority,
sends Popilius and Octavius to visit the Greek towns and read the decree of the Senate.
with the army, sent Gaius Popilius and Gnaeus
Octavius to visit certain places in Greece.
They first came to Thebes, where, after speaking
in complimentary terms of the Thebans, they exhorted them to maintain their good disposition
towards Rome. They then went a round of
the cities in the Peloponnese, and endeavoured
to convince the people of the clemency and
humanity of the Senate by producing theThe decree referred to is given in Livy, 43, 17. "No one shall
supply any war material to the Roman magistrates other than that which the
Senate has decreed." This had been extracted from the Senate by vehement
complaints reaching Rome of the cruel extortions of the Roman officers in the
previous two years. decree
which I recently mentioned. They vis
Council of the Achaeans
The Greeks made up their minds that this embassy
Meeting of Achaean statesmen to consider their policy, B. C. 169
required much consideration on their part.
They therefore called to council such men as
were of one mind in other political questions,—
Arcesilaus and Ariston of Megalopolis, Stratius
of Tritaea, Xenon of Patrae and Apollonides of
Sicyon. Lycortas is for complete neutrality. But Lycortas stood firm to his original
view: which was that they should send no help
to either Perseus or Rome in any way, nor, on
the other hand, take part against either. For he held that
co-operation with either would be disadvantageous to the
Greeks at large, because he foresaw the overwhelming power
which the successful nation would possess; while active
hostility, he thought, would be dangerous, because they had
already in former times been in opposition to many of the
most illustrious Romans in their state policy.
Apollonides and Stratius for suppressing rash declaratio
Heracleum Captured by the Testudo
The capture of Heracleum was effected in a very
The testudo. Livy, 44, 9.
peculiar manner. The city wall at one part
and for a short distance was low. The Romans
attacked with three picked maniples: and the first made a
protection for their heads by locking their shields together
over them so closely, that they presented the appearance of a
sloping tiled roof. . . .
This manœuvre the Romans used also in mock fights. . . .
While C. Marcius Figulus, the praetor, was engaged in
Chalcidice, Q. Marcius sent M. Popilius to besiege Meliboea in
Magnesia. Perseus sent Euphranor to relieve it, and, if he
succeeded, to enter Demetrias. This he did, and was not
attacked at the latter place by Popilius or Eumenes—scandal
saying that the latter was in secret communication with Perseus.
Livy, 44, 10-13, B. C. 169
Marcius Declines Assistance from the Achaeans
Polybius and his colleagues found the Romans moved
Summer of B. C. 169.
from Thessaly, and encamped in Perrhaebia,
between Azorium and Doliche. They therefore
postponed communication with the Consul,
owing to the critical nature of the occasion, but shared in the
dangers of the invasion of Macedonia. Autumn of B. C. 169. When the Roman army
at length reached the district of Heracleum, it
seemed the right moment for their interview
with Q. Marcius, 169. When the Roman army
at length reached the district of Heracleum, it
seemed the right moment for their interview
with Q. Marcius, because he considered that the
most serious part of his undertaking was accomplished. The
Achaean envoys therefore took the opportunity of presenting
the decree to Marcius, and declaring the intention of the
Achaeans, to the effect that they wished with their full force to
take part in his contests and dangers. Q. Marcius declines the offered army of Achaeans. In addition to this they
demonstrated to him that every command of
the Romans, whether sent by letter or messenger,
had been during the
Envoys Sent to Antiochus
When Antiochus was actually in occupation of Egypt,
Comanus and Cineas, Physcon's ministers, determine to send embassies to Antiochus, B. C. 169.
Comanus and Cineas, after consultation with
king Ptolemy Physcon, determined upon summoning a conference of the most distinguished
Egyptian nobles to consult about the danger
which threatened them. The first resolution
the conference came to was to send the Greek
envoys who were then at Alexandria as envoys to Antiochus
to conclude a pacification. There were at that time in the
country two embassies from the Achaean league, one which
had been sent to renew the alliance between the league and
Egypt, and which was composed of Alcithus of Aegium, son of
Xenephon, and Pasiodes, and another sent to give notice of
the festival of the Antigoneia.The Antigoneia was a festival established in honour of Antigonus Doson,
who had been a benefactor of the Achaeans. In 30, 23, it is mentioned as
being celebrated in Sicyon. The ben