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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · conquest, plunder, and captives · weapons ban on island · victory off phocaea · viceroy signed peace terms · two days of famine · trumpet proclamation of peace · territorial demands across the tigris · sparta embassy to rome · slavery and bondage · senate decisions · roman colonies
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“The eternal providence of God was on our side, and beyond our hopes the Persians made the first overtures, sending the Surena and another noble as ambassadors to treat for peace” Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus · insight
“they had been put on board the ships, by the tribunes, contrary to their remonstrances; but, in what manner soever they had become engaged in that service” Livy, The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 · observation
Carthaginians make the first tribute payment to Rome, hostages are partly restored, Norba hostages are allowed to move, and Roman magistrates manage colonist disputes for Narnia and Cossa.
before the senate, and, in pursuance of their answer, the people were ordered by proclamation to perform a supplication for one day, and worship was solemnized at all the shrines. 2. This year, the Carthaginians brought to Rome the first payment of the silver imposed on them as a tribute; and the quaestors having reported, that it was not of the proper standard, and that, on the assay, it wanted a fourth part, they …
Quinctius drafts peace terms: a six-month armistice, ambassadors to ratify in Rome, evacuation of Argive towns, restitution of slaves and property, limits on ships, hostages, and reparations.
such as the Roman general should choose, and among them his own son: and should pay, at present, one hundred talents of silver; and fifty talents, annually, for eight years." 36. These articles were put into writing, and sent into Lacedaemon, the camp having been removed, and brought nearer to the town. The tyrant saw nothing in them that gave him much satisfaction, excepting that, beyond his hopes, no mention had b…
Starving and furious Romans endure two days before Persians seek peace; Sapor demands territories across the Tigris and hostages, and Jovian accepts a harsh treaty to avoid further disaster and political rivals.
two days in great misery, and the starving soldiers began to be furious with rage, thinking it better to perish by the sword than by hunger, that most degrading death. 5. But the eternal providence of God was on our side, and beyond our hopes the Persians made the first overtures, sending the Surena and another noble as ambassadors to treat for peace, and they themselves being in a state of despondency, as the Roman…
An embassy from Sparta to Rome returns disappointed about hostages and villages; the Senate releases Demetrius (Philip’s son) and other Lacedaemonian hostages (except Armenas), then issues further audience and terms after Phocaea victory news.
[Sidenote: B.C. 190. Embassy from Sparta, and the answer of the Roman Senate.] +1.+ At this time also it happened that the embassy, which the Lacedaemonians had sent to Rome, returned disappointed. The subject of their mission was the hostages and the villages. As to the villages the Senate answered that they would give instructions to envoys sent by themselves; and as to the hostages they desired to consider furthe…
The English agree to Spanish terms for peace: surrendering hostages, limiting weapons on a small island, and having generals guarantee promises, though the English initially distrust the guard arrangements.
and such ordnance as was planted in the same island, which was eleven pieces of brass, and that no Spaniard might land in the island with any kind of weapon. These conditions at the first he somewhat misliked--chiefly the guard of the island to be in our own keeping; which, if they had had, we had soon known our fate; for with the first north wind they had cut our cables, and our ships had gone ashore; but in the en…