Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 33
Cyrus Evans, Ed.

2. When the assembly met, Attalus first rose to speak, and he began his discourse with a recital of the kindnesses conferred by his ancestors and himself on the Greeks in general, and on the Bœotians in particular. [2] But, being now too old and infirm to bear the exertion of speaking in public, he lost his voice and fell; [3] and for some time, while they were carrying him to his apartments, (for he was deprived of the use of one half of his limbs,) the proceedings of the assembly were for a short time suspended. [4] Then Aristaenus spoke on the part of the Achaeans, and was listened to with the greater attention, because he recommended to the Bœotians no other measures than those which he had recommended to the Achaeans. [5] A few words were added by Quinctius, extolling the good faith rather than the arms and power of the Romans. [6] A resolution was then proposed, by Dicaearchus of Plataea, for forming a treaty of friendship with the Roman people, which was read; and no one daring to offer any opposition, it was received and passed by the suffrages of all the states of Bœotia. [7] When the assembly broke up, Quinctius made no longer stay at Thebes than the sudden accident to Attalus made necessary. [8] When it appeared that the force of the disorder had not [p. 1442]brought the king's life into any immediate danger, but had only occasioned a weakness in his limbs, he left him there, to use the necessary means for recovery, and returned to Elatia, from whence he had come. [9] Having now brought the Bœotians, as formerly the Achaeans, to join in the confederacy, while all places were left behind him in a state of tranquillity and safety, he bent his whole attention towards Philip, and the remaining business of the war.