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Often appears with: victory off phocaea · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · sparta embassy to rome · hostages · conquest, plunder, and captives · assemblies, councils, and senates
Usually: narrative (1) · captivity (1) · detachment (1)
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…