CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. PAGE. BOOK EIGHTEENTH, CONTINUED. ΤΗΣ HISTORY OF ALEXANDER's SUCCESSORS. SECTION VIII. ETOLIANS AND ASIATIC GAULS SUBDUED BY FULVIUS AND MANLIUS. DEATH OF ANTIOCHUS, AND DANIEL'S PROPHECY. 'DURING the expedition of the Romans in Asia, some commotions had happened in Greece. Amynander, by the aid of the Etolians, was restored to his kingdom of Athamania, after having driven out, of his cities the Macedonian garrisons, that held them for king Philip. He deputed some ambassadors to the senate of Rome; and others into Asia, to the two Scipios, who were then at Ephesus, after their signal victory over Antiochus, to excuse his having employed the arms of the Etolians against Philip, and also to make his complaints of that prince. The Etolians had, likewise, undertaken some enterprises against Philip, in which they had met with A. M. 3815. Ant. J. C. 189. Liv. I. xxxviii. n. 1—11. Polyb. in Excerpt. Leg. c. 26-28. VOL. 7. 2 tolerable success; but, when they heard of Antiochus's defeat, and found that the ambassadors they had sent to Rome, were returning from thence, without being able to obtain any of their demands, and that Fulvius, the consul, was actually marching against them, they were seized with real alarms. Finding it would be impossible for them to resist the Romans by force of arms, they again had recourse to entreaties; and, in order to enforce them, they engaged the Athenians and Rhodians to join their ambassadors to those whom they were going to send to Rome, in order to sue for peace. The consul being arrived in Greece, he, in conjunction with the Epirots, had laid siege to Ambracia, in which was a strong garrison of Etolians, who had made a vigorous defence. However, being at last persuaded that it would be impossible for them to hold out long against the Roman arms, they sent new ambassadors to the consul, investing them with full powers to conclude a treaty on any conditions. Those which were proposed to them, being judged exceedingly severe, the ambassadors, notwithstanding their full powers, desired that leave might be granted them to consult the assembly once more; but the members of it were displeased with them for it, and therefore sent them back, with orders to terminate the affair. During this interval, the Athenian and Rhodian ambassadors, whom the senate had sent back to the consul, were come to him, to whom Amynander had also repaired. The latter, having great credit in the city of Ambracia, where he had spent many years of his banishment, prevailed with the inhabitants to surrender themselves, at last, to the consul. A peace was also granted to the Etolians. The chief conditions of the treaty were as follows; they should first deliver up their arms and horses to the Romans; should pay them one thousand talents of silver, about an hundred and fifty thousand pounds, half to be paid down directly; should restore to both the Romans, and their allies, all the deserters and prisoners; should look upon, as their enemies and friends, all those who were such to the Romans; in fine, should give up forty hostages, to be chosen by the consul. Their ambassadors being arrived in Rome, to ratify the treaty there, they found the people highly exasperated against the Etolians, as well on account of their past conduct, as the complaints made against them, by Philip, in his letters written on that head. At last, however, the senate were moved by their entreaties, and those of the ambassadors of Athens and Rhodes, who concurred in them; and, therefore, they ratified the treaty, conformably to the conditions which the consul had prescribed. The Etolians were permitted to pay, in gold, the sum imposed on them, in such a manner, that every piece of gold should be estimated at ten times the value of ten pieces of silver, of the same weight, which shows the proportion between gold and silver at that time. Fulvius, the consul, after he had terminated the war with the Etolians, crossed into the island of Cephalenia, in order to subdue it. All the cities, at the first summons, surrendered immediately. The inhabitants of Same only, after submitting to the conqueror, Liv. l. xxxviii. n. 28-30. |