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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · diplomacy and embassies · war preparations · treaty · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · roman senate and envoys · naval warfare and sea power · lamia · hannibal · greek cities under macedonia · forms of government · dardanians war
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Philip is met at Lamia by the Aetolians under Pyrrhias, negotiates shifting truce and peace talks involving Attalus and Roman commissioners, then returns through Thessaly and Boeotia to Argos amid renewed Aetolian demands.
also, that Attalus, king of Asia, would pass over into Europe, because the Aetolians, in their last council, had offered to him the office of chief magistrate of their nation. 30. Philip, when marching down into Greece, for these reasons, was met at the city Lamia by the Aetolians, under the command of Pyrrhias, who had been created praetor that year jointly with Attalus, who was absent. They had with them also auxi…
Philip V frets that he missed opportunities, then boasts to the allies, wins advantages, restores territories, gathers ships, raids near Aetolian sites, and sails through Greece before retiring to fight the Dardanians.
that it was intended to attack them, and that they would be overpowered while within the straits of Rhium, which is the name of the entrance of the Corinthian bay. 8. Philip was grieved and vexed when he reflected, that though he proceeded with the utmost speed on all occasions, yet he had not come up in time to accomplish any one object, and that fortune had frustrated his activity by snatching away every advantage…
A sworn treaty between Hannibal and King Philip V and their states is described, listing the officials, the gods who witness the oath, and key terms of mutual alliance against enemies of each side.
more conspicuous and widely known throughout Greece than is the case with any other man; as well as the contrast between the results accompanying the display of those opposite tendencies. Now that, upon his accession to the throne, Thessaly, Macedonia, and in fact all parts of his own kingdom were more thoroughly loyal and well disposed to him, young as he was on his succeeding to the government of Macedonia, than t…
Greek envoys in Rome argue that Philip’s control of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias enslaves Greece, urges the Senate to force evacuation or prosecute war, and rebuffs Philip’s reply when his envoys lack instructions.
[Sidenote: The speeches of the Greek envoys in the Senate.] +11.+ Now these envoys arrived in Rome before the Senate had settled the provinces of the Consuls appointed for this year, and whether it would be necessary to send both to Gaul, or one of them against Philip. But the friends of Flamininus having assured themselves that both Consuls would remain in Italy owing to the threat of an attack from the Celts, all …