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Reaction of the Egyptian Kings
In Egypt the first thing the kings did after being
relieved from the war with Antiochus was to send Numenius,
one of their friends, as an envoy to Rome to
return thanks for the favours received; and
they next released the Lacedaemonian Menalcidas, who had made active use of the occasion against the
kingdom for his own advantage; Gaius Popilius Laenas asked
the king for his release as a favour to himself.Menalcidas was one of the Romanising party, who appears to have been
Strategus of the league in B.C. 153 [Pausan. 7.11.7], and to have committed
suicide in B.C. 148-147, in despair at his failure to wrest Sparta from the league. . . . Release of Menalcidas.