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Capture of Mediolanum and End of the War
Next year, upon embassies coming from the Celts,
B. C. 222. Attack on the Insubres.
desiring peace and making unlimited offers of
submission, the new Consuls, Marcus Claudius
Marcellus and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus,
were urgent that no peace should be granted them. Thus
frustrated, they determined to try a last chance, and once more
took active measures to hire thirty thousand Gaesatae,—the
Gallic tribe which lives on the Rhone. Having obtained these,
they held themselves in readiness, and waited for the attack of
their enemies. At the beginning of spring the Consuls assumed
command of their forces, and marched them into the territory
of the Insubres; and there encamped under the walls of the
city of Acerrae, which lies between the Padus and the Alps,
and laid siege to it. The Insubres, being unable to render
any assistance, because all the positions of vantage had been
seized by the enemy first, and being yet very anxious to break
up the
Cleomenes Invades Argos
Megalopolis having fallen, then, Antigonus spent the
B. C. 222. Cleomenes invades Argos.
winter at Argos. But at the approach of spring
Cleomenes collected his army, addressed a
suitable exhortation to them, and led them into
the Argive territory. Most people thought this a hazardous
and foolhardy step, because the places at which the frontier
was crossed were strongly fortified; but those who were
capable of judging regarded the measure as at once safe and
prudent. For seeing that Antigonus had dismissed his forces,
he reckoned on two things,—there would be no one to resist
him, and therefore he would run no risk; and when the
Argives found that their territory was being laid waste up to
their walls, they would be certain to be roused to anger and to
lay the blame upon Antigonus: therefore, if on the one hand
Antigonus, unable to bear the complaints of the populace, were
to sally forth and give him battle with his present forces, Cleomenes felt sure of an eas
Weakness of Ptolemy Philopator
Immediately after his father's death, Ptolemy Philopator
Death of Ptolemy Euergetes, B.C. 222.
put his brother Magas and his partisans to
death, and took possession of the throne of
Egypt. He thought that he had now freed himself by this act from domestic danger; and that by the deaths
of Antigonus and Seleucus, and their being respectively
succeeded by mere children like Antiochus and Philip, fortune
had released him from danger abroad. He therefore felt
secure of his position and began conducting his reign as
though it were a perpetual festival. He would attend to no
business, and would hardly grant an interview to the officials
about the court, or at the head of the administrative departments in Egypt. Even his agents abroad found him entirely
careless and indifferent; though his predecessors, far from
taking less interest in foreign affairs, had generally given them
precedence over those of Egypt itself. For being masters of
Coele-Syria and Cyprus,
Condition of Megalopolis
After adjusting these matters, he settled in accordance with the decree of the league the
intestine disputes at Megalopolis. For it
happened that the people of this town having
been recently deprived of their country by Cleomenes,See 2, 61-4. B.C. 222. and, to
use a common expression, shaken to their foundations, were
in absolute want of many things, and ill-provided with all:
for they persisted in maintaining their usual scale of living,
while their means both public and private were entirely
crippled. The consequence was that the town was filled with
disputes, jealousies, and mutual hatred; which is ever the
case, both with states and individuals, when means fall short of
desires. The first controversy was about the walling of the
town,—one party maintaining that the limits of the city should
be contracted to a size admitting of being completely walled
and guarded at a time of danger; for that in the late occasion
it was its size and unguarded state which