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Browsing named entities in Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University). You can also browse the collection for 197 BC or search for 197 BC in all documents.
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 27 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 30 (search)
Consequently, as Philip was coming down into Greece, the Aetolians encountered him at the city of Lamia, their general being Pyrrhias, who along with the absent Attalus had been elected praetorI.e. strathgo/s. Attalus I (241-197 B.C.) had the same title as an honour merely. for that year.
They had with them auxiliary troops from Attalus and also about a thousand men sent by Publius Sulpicius from the Roman fleet. Against this general and these forces Philip fought twice with success. In each battle heB.C. 208 slew fully a thousand of the enemy. Then, while the Aetolians, constrained by fear, remained inside the walls of the city of Lamia, Philip led his army back to Phalara. The place is on the Maliac Gulf,On the north shore of the Gulf. Phalara was the port of Lamia. and was formerly populous on account of its remarkable harbour and safe roadsteads on this side and that and other advantages from the sea and the land.
To that place came ambassadors from Ptolemy, King