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Expedition of Attalus
But after reducing Milyas, and the greater part of
Pamphylia, Achaeus took his departure, and arriving at Sardis
kept up a continuous warfare with Attalus, and began threatening Prusias, and making himself an object of terror and
alarm to all the inhabitants on this side Taurus.
But while Achaeus was engaged on his expedition againstThe expedition of Attalus to recover cities which had joined Achaeus.
Selge, Attalus with the Aegosagae from Gaul was
going through all the cities in Aeolis, and the
neighbourhood, which had before this been
terrified into joining Achaeus; but most of which
now voluntarily and even gratefully gave in
their adherence to him, though there were some few which
waited to be forced. Now the cities which transferred their
allegiance to him in the first instance were Cyme, Smyrna, and
Phocaea; after them Aegae and Temnus submitted, in terror at
his approach; and thereupon he was waited upon by ambassadors from Teos and Colophon with offers t
The Murder of Gesco
It was now the turn of Autaritus the Gaul. "Your only
hope," he said, "of safety is to reject all hopes which rest on
the Carthaginians. So long as any man clings to the idea of
indulgence at their hands, he cannot possibly be a genuine
ally of yours. Never trust, never listen, never attend to anyone, unless he recommend unrelenting hostility and implacable
hatred towards the Carthaginians: all who speak on the other
side regard as traitors and enemies." After this preface, he
gave it as his advice that they should put to death with torture
both Gesco and those who had been seized with him, as well
as the Carthaginian prisoners of war who had been captured
since. Now this Autaritus was the most effective speaker of
any, because he could make himself understood to a large
number of those present at a meeting. For, owing to his
length of service, he knew how to speak Phoenician; and
Phoenician was the language in which the largest number of
men, thanks to the length