<head>Antiochus and the Roman Envoys</head>At the same time arrived three of the ten commissioners,
Publius Lentulus from Bargylia and Lucius Terentius and Publius Villius from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thasos&groupId=1020&placeId=1794">Thasos</a>.
Their arrival was at once reported to the king and a few days afterwards they all assembled at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lysimachia&groupId=719&placeId=1319">Lysimachia</a>.
Hegesianax and Lysias, the envoys who had been sent to Flamininus, arrived there at the same time. In the unofficial interviews of the king and the Romans the conversation was simple and friendly,
but afterwards when an official conference about that situation in general was held, things assumed another aspect. For Lucius Cornelius asked Antiochus to retire from the cities previously subject to Ptolemy which he had taken possession of in Asia, while as to those previously subject to Philip he demanded with urgency that he should evacuate them. For it was a ridiculous thing, he said, that Antiochus should come in when all was over and take the prizes they had gained in their war with Philip.
He also advised him to keep his hands off the autonomous cities.
And generally speaking he said he wondered on what pretext the king had crossed to Europe with such large military and naval forces.
For anyone who judged correctly could not suppose that the reason was any other than that he was trying to put himself in the way of the Romans. The Roman envoy having concluded his speech thus,
Walbank Commentary