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A Year's Truce Between Antiochus and Ptolemy
Meanwhile Antiochus, on arriving at the city which
bears his own name, immediately despatched an embassy to
Ptolemy, consisting of Antipater, his nephew, and Theodotus
Hemiolius, to treat of a peace, in great alarm lest the enemy
should advance upon him. Peace between Ptolemy and Antiochus for a year, B. C. 217. For his defeat had
inspired him with distrust of his own forces,
and he was afraid that Achaeus would seize
the opportunity to attack him. It did not
occur to Ptolemy to take any of these circumstances into
account: but being thoroughly satisfied with his unexpected
success, and generally at his unlooked for acquisition of Coele-Syria, he was by no means indisposed to peace; but even more
inclined to it than he ought to have been: influenced in that
direction by the habitual effeminacy and corruption of his
manner of life. Accordingly, when Antipater and his colleague
arrived, after some little bluster and vituperation of Antiochu
Lycurgus Returns to Sparta
Just at the beginning of this summer, while Agetas
B.C. 217. Greece. Return of Lycurgus to Sparta. He projects an invasion of Messenia.
was Strategus of the Aetolians, and when Aratus
had just become Strategus of the Achaean
league,—at which point we broke off in our
history of the Social war,See ante, ch. 30. Agetas had been elected Aetolian Strategus in the
autumn of 218 B.C., Aratus Achaean Strategus in the early summer of B.C.
217.—Lycurgus of Sparta
returned hom217.—Lycurgus of Sparta
returned home from Aetolia. The Ephors had
discovered that the charge on which he had
been banished was false; and had accordingly sent for him
back, and recalled him from exile. He at once began making
an arrangement with Pyrrhias the Aetolian, who happened at
the time to be commander in Elis, for an invasion of Messenia.
Now, when Aratas came into office, he found the
mercenary army of the league in a state of
complete demoralisation, and the cities very
slack to pay the tax for their support, owing to t<
Capture of Thebes In Phthiotis
Thus baffled in his attempt upon Meliteia, Philip encamped upon the bank of the Enipeus, and collected from
Larisa and the other cities the siege train which he had caused
to be constructed during the winter. For the chief object of
his campaign was the capture of the city called
Phthiotid Thebes. Thebae Phthiotides, B. C. 217.Now this city lies no long
way from the sea, about thirty stades from
Larisa, and is conveniently situated in regard both to Magnesia and Thessaly; but especially as commanding the district
of Demetrias in Magnesia, and of Pharsalus and Pherae in
Thessaly. From it, at that very time, much damage was
being inflicted upon the Demetrians, Pharsalians, and
Larisaeans; as the Aetolians were in occupation of it, and
made continual predatory expeditions, often as far as to the
plain of Amyrus. Philip did not regard the matter as at all
of small importance, but was exceedingly bent on taking the
town. Having therefore got together a hundr
The Peace is Ratified
This speech of Agelaus greatly influenced the allies
in favour of peace; and Philip more than any
one: as the arguments employed chimed in with
the wishes which the advice of Demetrius had
already roused in him. Both parties therefore came to terms
on the details of the treaty; and after ratifying it, separated to
their several cities, taking peace with them instead of war.
These events all fell in the third year of the 140th Olympiad.Olympiad 140, 3. Before July B. C. 217.
I mean the battle of the Romans in Etruria,
that of Antiochus for Coele-Syria, and lastly the
treaty between Philip and the Aetolians.
This then was the first point of time, and the first instanceThe Eastern and Western politics become involved with each other.
of a deliberation, which may be said to have
regarded the affairs of Greece, Italy, and Libya
as a connected whole: for neither Philip nor the
leading statesmen of the Greek cities made war
or peace any longer with each other with a v
Philip's Preparations
King Philip having returned, after the completion of
Philip's war against Scerdilaidas of Illyria, autumn of 217 B. C.
the treaty of peace, to Macedonia by sea, found
that Scerdilaidas on the same pretext of money
owed to him, on which he had treacherously
seized the vessels at Leucas, had now plundered
a town in Pelagonia called Pissaeum; had won
over by promises some cities of the Dassaretae, namely, Phibotides, Antipatria, Chrysondym, and Geston; and had overrun
much of the district of Macedonia bordering on these places.
He therefore at once started with his army in great haste to
recover the revolted cities, and determined to proclaim open
war with Scerdilaidas; for he thought it a matter of the most
vital importance to bring Illyria into a state of good order, with
a view to the success of all his projects, and above all of his
passage into Italy. For Demetrius was so assiduous in
keeping hot these hopes and projects in the king's mind, that
Philip even dr
His Election To the Aedileship
Subsequently, when his elder brother Lucius was a
Elected aedile, end of B. C. 217.
candidate for the Aedileship, which is about the most honourable office open to a "young" man at Rome: it being the
custom for two patricians to be appointed, and there being
many candidates, for some time he did not venture to stand
for the same office as his brother. But as the
day of election drew near, judging from the
demeanour of the people that his brother wouldline 20: "his brother would" should read "his brother would not".
easily obtain the office, and observing that his own popularity
with the multitude was very great, he made up his mind that the
only hope of his brother's success was that they should combine
their candidatures. He therefore resolved to act as follows:
His mother was going round to the temples and sacrificing
to the gods in behalf of his brother, and was altogether in a
state of eager expectation as to the result. She was the only
parent whos
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS., CHAP. 82. (56.)—ANIMALS WHICH ARE TAMED IN PART ONLY. (search)
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XX.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS., CHAP. 100. (24.)—THE COMPOSITION OF THERIACA. (search)