When it was getting quite late in the day and Flamininus had nearly given up all hope, Philip appeared at dusk accompanied by the same people, having, as he himself asserted, spent the day in puzzling over the conditions and dealing with the difficult points, but in opinion of others his object was to prevent, by cutting down the ime, the accusations of the Achaeans and Aetolians.
For on the previous day at the moment of his departure he saw they were both ready to join issue with him and load him with reproach.
So that now, approaching nearer, he asked the Roman general to converse with him in private about the situation, so that there should not be a mere skirmishing with words on both sides but that an end of some kind should be put to the dispute.
When he begged and demanded this repeatedly, Flamininus asked those present what he ought to do.
Upon their bidding him meet Philip and hear what he had to say, Flamininus taking with him Appius Claudius, then military tribune, told the rest, who had retired a short distance from the seashore, to remain where they were and asked Philip to come ashore.
The king left the ship accompanied by Apollodorus and Demosthenes, and meeting Flamininus conversed with him for a considerable time.
It is difficult to tell what each of them said on that occasion, but Flamininus, after Philip had left, in explaining to the rest the king\'s proposals, said that he would restore <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pharsalus&groupId=880&placeId=1587">Pharsalus</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Larisa&groupId=669&placeId=1225">Larisa</a> to the Aetolians, but not Thebes, he would give up the Peraea to the Rhodians, but would not withdraw from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Iasus&groupId=643&placeId=1177">Iasus</a> and Bargylia, but to the Achaeans he would surrender <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a>.
He would give up that his possessions in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Illyria&groupId=647&placeId=1186">Illyria</a> and would restore all prisoners of war, and restore also to Attalus his ships and all who survived of the men captured in the naval engagements.
Walbank Commentary