Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 36
Evan T. Sage, PhD professor of latin and head of the department of classics in the University of Pittsburgh, Ed.

31. At the same time too Messene in the Peloponnesus began to be besieged by the Achaeans because it refused to join their league. [2] Two cities, Messene and Elis, were outside the Achaean council; their sympathies were with the Aetolians. [3] The Eleans, however, after Antiochus was driven from Greece,¹ responded more moderately to the [p. 247]ambassadors of the Achaeans:² if the royal garrison³ were withdrawn they would consider what they should do; [4] the Messenians,⁴ on the other hand, had dismissed the ambassadors unanswered and had begun war, but fearful for their cause [5??] when their crops were being burned everywhere by a wide-ranging army and they saw the camp established near the city, they sent ambassadors to Chalcis to Titus Quinctius, the source of their liberty, to say that the Messenians were ready to open their gates and surrender their city to the Romans, not the Achaeans. [6] Having listened to the ambassadors Quinctius, setting out at once from Megalopolis, sent a messenger to Diophanes, praetor of the Achaeans,⁵ to order him to withdraw his army at once from Messene and to report to him. [7] Diophanes obeyed the summons, and raising the siege and himself travelling light, preceded the column and near Andania, a little town located between Megalopolis and Messene, met Quinctius; and when he had explained the reason for the siege, Quinctius reproached him gently because he had undertaken so important a matter [8??] without his authorization,⁶ and ordered him to disband his army and not to disturb the peace secured to the advantage of everyone. [9] He instructed the Messenians to recall their exiles and join the council of the Achaeans; if they had any matters about which they wished to raise objections or to take precautions for themselves against future contingencies, they should come to him at Corinth; Diophanes he directed to give him an immediate opportunity to meet the Achaean [p. 249]council. [10] There he complained about the island of⁷ Zacynthos,⁸ which had been wrongfully occupied, and demanded that it be restored to the Romans. [11] Zacynthos had formerly belonged to Philip, king of the Macedonians; he had ceded it to Amynander as a bribe to induce him to permit Philip to lead his army through Athamania into the upper part of Aetolia, on the expedition⁹ by which he had broken the spirits of the Aetolians and forced them to seek peace. [12] Amynander had appointed Philip of Megalopolis governor of the island; later, during the war in which he joined Antiochus against the Romans, he had recalled Philip for military duties and sent Hierocles of Agrigentum to succeed him.