Philip and consul meeting

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Often appears with: thermopylae · strategy and the aims of war · siege of lamia · siege and fortification · mining under ground · arms, armor, and machines

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The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 secondary

Livy · c. 27 BCE–17 CE (composition of the History of Rome; these books 27–36 within that span)
BOOK XXVII. > BOOK XXXVI. (25/38)

While Heraclea falls, Philip besieges Lamia; he meets the consul at Thermopylae, coordinates simultaneous sieges, uses mines and works, and is induced to relent once Heraclea is reduced.

the Aetolians were encamped there, it should be delivered to him." On account of this presumptuous insolence of his, his surrender was a matter of greater satisfaction to the victors. 25. At the same time, while the Romans were employed in the reduction of Heraclea, Philip, by concert, besieged Lamia. He had an interview with the consul, as he was returning from Boeotia, at Thermopylae, whither he came to congratula…