Cephallenia
M. Fulvius took the quarter of the townThe citadel of Same in Cephallenia taken by a night surprise, |
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The Aetolian Truce Announced
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Zeuxis and Antipater Sent to Negotiate Peace
The Roman Terms To Antiochus
Eumenes Persuaded to Speak
King Eumenes In the Senate
Eumenes Has Always Been a Friend to Rome
Conclusion of Eumenes' Speech
The Rhodians Address the Senate
Conclusion of the Rhodians' Speech
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Smoking Out the Enemy
Athens, Rhodes, and Athamania Intercede
End of the Aetolian War
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The War with the Gauls of Asia
MoagĕTes of Cibyra
Pacification of Pamphylia
Conquest of Pisidia
The Gauls of Asia
A Gallic Woman Takes Vengeance
Attempted Treachery By the Gauls
Cephallenia
Philopoemen Combines What is Right and What is Expedient
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Settlement of Asia
The Roman Commissioners Arrive at Ephesus
Treaty With Antiochus
The Romans Burn Antiochus's Ships at Patara
Ariarathes Declared a Friend of Rome
The Commissioners In Asia
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1 See Livy, 38, 28, 29. The fragment here seems to be that translated by Livy in ch. 29, “Romani nocte per arcem, quam Cyatidem vocant (nam urbs in mare devexa in Occidentem vergit) muro superato in forum pervenerunt.” The people of Same suddenly threw off the terms under which the rest of Cephallania had submitted and stood a four months' siege.
Histories. Polybius. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. translator. London, New York. Macmillan. 1889. Reprint Bloomington 1962.
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