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| Polybius, Histories | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Teuta Sends Out Another Fleet
When the season for sailing was come Teuta sent out a
B. C. 229. Another piratical fleet sent out by Teuta.
larger fleet of galleys than ever against the
Greek shores, some of which sailed straight to
Corcyra; while a portion of them put into the
harbour of Epidamnus on the pretext of taking
in victual and water, but really to attack the town. The
Epidamnians received them without suspicion
and without taking any precautions. Their treacherous attack on Epidamnus, which is repulsed. Entering
the town therefore clothed merely in their
tunics, as though they were only come to fetch
water, but with swords concealed in the water vessels, they
slew the guards stationed at the gates, and in a brief space were
masters of the gate-tower. Being energetically supported by
a reinforcement from the ships, which came quickly up in
accordance with a pre-arrangement, they got possession of the
greater part of the walls without difficulty. But though the
citizens were t
Corcyra Submits To the Romans
In this same season one of the Consuls, Gnaeus
B. C. 229, The Roman Consuls, with fleet and army, start to punish the Illyrians.
Fulvius, started from Rome with two hundred
ships, and the other Consul, Aulus Postumius,
with the land forces. The plan of Gnaeus was
to sail direct to Corcyra, because he supposed
that he should find the result of the siege still
undecided. But when he found that he was too
late for that, he determined nevertheless to sail to the island
because he wished to know the exact facts as to what had
happened there, and to test the sincerity of the overtures that
had been made by Demetrius. Demetrius of Pharos. For Demetrius,
being in disgrace with Teuta, and afraid of what
she might do to him, had been sending messages
to Rome, offering to put the city and everything else of which
he was in charge into their hands. Corcyra becomes a "friend of Rome." Delighted at the appearance
of the Romans, the Corcyreans not only surrendered th