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Affairs in Greece: Philip V. Called In Against the Aetolians
The Aetolians had recently become greatly encouraged
King Philip undertakes to aid the Achaean league, and other Greek states,
against a threat-ened attack of the Aetolians in alliance with Rome, B. C. 208.
Cp. Livy, 27, 30. See above Bk. 9, ch. 28-42.
by the arrival of the Romans and King Attalus: and accordingly began menacing every one, and
threatening all with an attack by land, while Attalus and Publius Sulpicius did the same by
sea. Wherefore Achaean legates arrived at the court of King Philip entreating his help: for it
was not the Aetolians alone of whom they were standing in dread, but Machanidas also, as he
was encamped with his army on the frontier of Argos. The Boeotians also, in fear of the
enemy's fleet, were demanding a leader and
help from the king. Most urgent of all, however, were the
Euboeans in their entreaties to him to take some precaution
against the enemy. A similar appeal was being made by the
Acar
The Topography of Lilybaeum
Sicily, then, lies towards Southern Italy very much in
the same relative position as the Peloponnese does to the rest
of Greece. The only difference is that the one is an island,
the other a peninsula; and consequently in the former case
there is no communication except by sea, in the latter there is
a land communication also. The shape of Sicily is a triangle,
of which the several angles are represented by promontories:
that to the south jutting out into the Sicilian Sea is called
Pachynus; that which looks to the north forms the western
extremity of the Straits of Messene and is about twelve
stades from Italy, its name is Pelorus; while the third
projects in the direction of Libya itself, and is conveniently
situated opposite the promontories which cover Carthage, at a
distance of about a thousand stades: it looks somewhat south
of due west, dividing the Libyan from the Sardinian Sea, and
is called Lilybaeum. On this last there is a city of the same
name.
Dangers of the Treaty With Rome
"Put then before your eyes your own folly. You
profess to be at war against Philip on behalf of the Greeks,
that they may escape from servitude to him; but your war is
really for the enslavement and ruin of Greece. That is the
tale told by your treaty with Rome, which formerly existed
only in written words, but is now seen in full operation.
Heretofore, though mere written words, it was a disgrace to
you: but now your execution of it has made that disgrace
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most shameful violence and lawlessness. And all this was
hitherto kept a secret. But now the fate of the people of
Oreus, and of the miserable Aeginetans, has betrayed you to
every one,—Fortune having, as though of set purpose, suddenly
brought your infatuation before the scenes.
"So much for the origin of the war and its events up to
now. But as to its result,—supposing everything to go to
your wish,—what do you expect that to be? Will it not be
the beginning of great miseries to all Greece
Disposition of Troops
But while Molon was doing his best to calm the panic,
Disposition of the king's army.
the king, fully prepared for the engagement, was
marching his whole army out of their lines at
daybreak. On his right wing he stationed his
lancers under the command of Ardys, a man of proved ability
in the field; next to them the Cretan allies, and next the
Gallic Rhigosages. Next these he placed the foreign contingent and mercenary soldiers from Greece, and next to them
he stationed his phalanx: the left wing he assigned to the
cavalry called the "Companions."e(/tairoi are cavalry;
the peze/tairoi of the Macedonian army are represented in Polybius
by the Hypaspists. See supra, ch. 27, cp. 16,
18. His elephants, which
were ten in number, he placed at intervals in front of
the line. His reserves of infantry and cavalry he divided
between the two wings, with orders to outflank the enemy as
soon as the battle had begun. He then went along the line
and addressed a few words of exh