Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 37
Evan T. Sage, PhD professor of latin and head of the department of classics in the University of Pittsburgh, Ed.

25. Great joy was brought to the Romans first¹ by the news of the victory and [2??] then by the coming of the Rhodians, and it was evident that if the Rhodians had been relieved of their present responsibility² their hands would be free and they would guarantee the safety of the seas in that quarter. [3] But it was the departure of Antiochus from Sardis, and at the same time the fear that the coast cities would be crushed, which prevented them from leaving the guarding of Ionia and Aeolis; the Rhodians sent Pamphilidas with four decked ships to the fleet which was off Patara. [4] Antiochus was not only collecting reinforcements from the states which surrounded him, but had sent ambassadors and letters to Prusias, king of Bithynia, in which he complained of the crossing of the Romans into Asia: [5] they were coming to destroy all kingdoms, so that in the whole world there might be no empire save that of Rome; [6] Philip, Nabis, had been defeated; he himself was the third to be attacked; [7] as each came next after the last destroyed, the fire, catching, so to speak, one after another in succession, would be everywhere; from himself their next step would be into Bithynia, since Eumenes had already given himself into voluntary slavery. [8] Prusias, troubled by this message, was diverted from such suspicions by the letter of Scipio the consul, and more by the words of his brother Africanus, who, by citing the enduring tradition among the Roman people of increasing with every sign of honour the dignity of allied kings, and also, by giving examples from his personal experience, induced Prusias to merit his friendship: [9] tribal [p. 365]chieftains, taken under his protection in Spain, he had³ left kings; Masinissa he had not only established on his ancestral throne but had placed on that of Syphax, by whom he had been driven out before; [10] and he was both by far the richest of the kings of Africa and equal, whether in majesty or in power, to any king whatsoever in the whole world. [11] Philip and Nabis, enemies, defeated, too, in war by Titus Quinctius, had yet been left in their kingdoms. [12] Philip the year before, in fact, had had his tribute cancelled and his hostage-son restored, and had recovered certain cities outside of Macedonia with the consent of the Roman generals. Nabis too would have been in the same position of honour had not his own madness and then the treachery of the Aetolians destroyed him. [13] The favourable inclination of the king was especially strengthened after Gaius Livius, the commissioner, who as praetor earlier had commanded the fleet, came from Rome and showed him how much surer were the Roman prospects of [14??] victory than those of Antiochus and how friendship with the Romans would be more respected and dependable.⁴