1 On Perseus' stinginess, cf. XLII. lxvii. 5 and the note, XLIV. xxvi. 1, Polybius XXVIII. 9; Plutarch, Aemilius xii. 4-xiii. 2 mentions the Bastarnae as also victims of Perseus' greed, and points out the contrast to Alexander the Great and Philip, his father, who disregarded money for the sake of conquest.
2 The situation of Ancyra is unknown; we cannot be sure whether it is a town, a district, or a mistake. In Polybius XXVIII. 8. 11, in place of a corrupt word (ἐπακκωναν), Ursinus proposed reading ἐπ᾽ ῎αγκυραν, on the basis of this reference in Livy; but modern editors prefer the emendation ἐφ᾽ ῞γσκανα.
3 B.C. 169
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