Treaty

The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) primary

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…