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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 44 (ed. Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.), chapter 15 (search)
Claudius has it that the senate returned no answer, but only had read its decree that the Roman people gave the Carians and Lycians their freedomPrevious friction between these peoples and the Rhodians was noted in XLI. vi. 8-12, cf. the note, and XLII. xiv. 8. Polybius XXX. 5. 12 records a decree freeing the Carians and Lycians in the year 168-7 B.C., probably the time when it was actually passed. and that despatches should be immediately sent to both peoples, on hearing which the
chief of the Rhodian embassy, for whose proud language theB.C. 169 senate-house had but a moment before seemed too small, now suffered deflation.
Other historians record the following answer:
At the outset of this war the Roman people were informed by no trifling sources that the Rhodians had entered upon secret plots with King Perseus against the Roman state,Cf. XLII. xxvi. 8 for earlier Roman suspicions, which to a large extent resulted from the Rhodians' non-partisanship, based on a