<head><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and Philip</head>At the time that the Roman legates were present in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a> Nicanor, Philip\'s general, overran <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Attica&groupId=383&placeId=721">Attica</a> up to the Academy, upon which the Romans, after sending a herald to him in the first place, met him
and asked him to inform Philip that the Romans requested that king to make war on no Grecian state and also to give such compensation to Attalus for the injuries he had inflicted on him as a fair tribunal should pronounce to be just.
If he acted so, they added, he might consider himself at peace with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, but if he refused to accede the consequences would be the reverse. Nicanor on hearing this departed.
The Romans conveyed the contents of this communication to the Epirots at Phoenice in sailing along that co and to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Amynander&groupId=324&placeId=631">Amynander</a>, going up to athamania for that purpose. They also apprised the Aetolians at Naupactus and the Achaeans at Aegium.
After having made this statement to Philip through Nicanor they sailed away to meet Antiochus and Ptolemy for the purpose of coming to terms.
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