Summary of Book XXXVII
Lucius Cornelius Scipio the consul, with his brother
Scipio Africanus as his lieutenant (Africanus had said that
he would be his brother's lieutenant if the province of
Greece were assigned to him, although it seemed that
that province would be given to Gaius Laelius, who was
very influential in the senate), started out to conduct the
war against King Antiochus, and was the first of all Roman
generals to cross to Asia. Regillus fought successfully
with the royal fleet of Antiochus off Myonnesus, with the
aid of the Rhodians. The son of Africanus was captured
by Antiochus and restored to his father. When Antiochus
had been conquered by Lucius Cornelius Scipio, with the
assistance of Eumenes, son of Attalus and king of Pergamum, peace was granted him under this condition, that
he should withdraw from all the districts on this side of
the Taurus mountains. Lucius Cornelius Scipio, who had
finished the war with Antiochus, was put on a level with
his brother by the surname of “Asiaticus.” A colony
was established at Bononia. Eumenes, by whose aid
Antiochus had been defeated, had his kingdom enlarged.
To the Rhodians too, who had also co-operated, certain
cities were granted. Aemilius Regillus, who had defeated
the prefects of Antiochus in a naval battle, celebrated a
naval triumph. Manius Acilius Glabrio triumphed over
Antiochus, whom he had driven out of Greece, and over
the Aetolians.