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Acarnania (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 30
The Acarnanians Enter the War
While Philip was thus engaged, the commissioners sent
The Acarnanians, B. C. 220.
out to the allies were performing their mission.
The first place they came to was Acarnania;
and the Acarnanians, with a noble promptitude,
confirmed the decree and undertook to join the war against
the Aetolians with their full forces. And yet they, if any
one, might have been excused if they had put the matter
off, and hesitated, and shown fear of entering upon a
war with their neighbours; both because they lived upon the
frontiers of Aetolia, and still more because they were peculiarly open to attack, and, most of all, because they had a short
time before experienced the most dreadful disasters from the
enmity of the Aetolians. But I imagine that men of noble
nature, whether in private or public affairs, look upon duty as
the highest consideration; and in adherence to this principle
no people in Greece have been more frequently conspicuous
than the Acarnanians, although
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 30
Aetolia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 30
220 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 30
The Acarnanians Enter the War
While Philip was thus engaged, the commissioners sent
The Acarnanians, B. C. 220.
out to the allies were performing their mission.
The first place they came to was Acarnania;
and the Acarnanians, with a noble promptitude,
confirmed the decree and undertook to join the war against
the Aetolians with their full forces. And yet they, if any
one, might have been excused if they had put the matter
off, and hesitated, and shown fear of entering upon a
war with their neighbours; both because they lived upon the
frontiers of Aetolia, and still more because they were peculiarly open to attack, and, most of all, because they had a short
time before experienced the most dreadful disasters from the
enmity of the Aetolians. But I imagine that men of noble
nature, whether in private or public affairs, look upon duty as
the highest consideration; and in adherence to this principle
no people in Greece have been more frequently conspicuous
than the Acarnanians, although