Upon Lucius and his colleagues deciding to summon the representatives of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Smyrna&groupId=981&placeId=1733">Smyrna</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lampsacus&groupId=666&placeId=1218">Lampsacus</a> and give them a hearing, this was done.
The Lampsacenes sent Parmenion and Pythodorus and the Smyrnaeans Coeranus.
When these envoys spoke with some freedom, the king, taking it amiss that he should seem to be submitting their dispute against him to a Roman tribunal, interrupted Parmenion, saying,
"Enough of that long harangue: for it is my pleasure that our differences should be submitted to the Rhodians and not to the Romans."
Hereupon they broke up the conference, by no means pleased with each other.
Walbank Commentary