<p rend="Plain Text">Ol. 147, 1 = 192/1; above, pp. 1–3. All surviving fragments (except perhaps 12. 8) are from res Graeciae. The deterioration in relations between <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and Antiochus since the conference of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lysimachia&groupId=719&placeId=1319">Lysimachia</a> in 196 (xviii. 49–52) was recounted in book xix in a narrative in part represented by the Greek sections of Livy, xxxiv–xxxv (see p. 1 for details). In 192 Flamininus and three colleagues were sent to Greece to canvass support (Livy, xxxv. 23. 4–5). They visited <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Achaea&groupId=272&placeId=533">Achaea</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a>, and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a>, and at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Demetrias&groupId=536&placeId=1006">Demetrias</a> secured the banishment of the Magnetarch, Eurylochus, who fled to Aetolia (Livy, xxxv. 31. 3– 32. 2). At the spring meeting (192) at Naupactus, in the presence of Antiochus' envoy, Menippus, the Aetolians resolved to summon Antiochus 'to free Greece and arbitrate between themselves and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>' (Livy, xxxv. 32. 1–33. 11). They then organized action against <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Demetrias&groupId=536&placeId=1006">Demetrias</a> (which they took), <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a> (where they failed), and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> (where, upon Nabis' being murdered, Philopoemen quickly intervened); see Livy, xxxv. 34. 1–38. 14. Flamininus, joined by Eumenes, garrisoned <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a> but held off <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Demetrias&groupId=536&placeId=1006">Demetrias</a> (Livy, xxxv. 39. 1–8). See Holleaux, CAH, viii. 199–206 (= tudes, v. 386–96); Badian, Studies, 112–39.</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">Res Graeciae must have opened with a section corresponding to Livy, xxxv. 42. 1–51. 10 (see p. 1), covering autumn 192. 1 and 2 are from that section.</p>
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τριάκοντα τῶν ἀποκλήτων κτλ</w>.:</emph>
Suidas; cf. Livy, xxxv. 45. 9– 46. 1 (Paton is incorrect). In autumn 192 Antiochus crossed to Pteleum with 10,000 foot, 500 cavalry, and 6 elephants (Livy, xxxv. 43. 3–6), and was escorted to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Demetrias&groupId=536&placeId=1006">Demetrias</a> by Eurylochus and other Magnesian leaders. At a meeting at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lamia&groupId=665&placeId=1217">Lamia</a> Phaeneas called for negotiations with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, but Thoas' motion to press ahead with war was carried. 'Haec uicit sententia, imperatoremque regem appellandum censuerunt et triginta principes cum quibus, si qua uellet, consultaret delegerunt' (Livy, xxxv. 45. 9). On the apocleti see iv. 5. 9 n.; below, 10. 11, 10. 13, xxi. 5. 2. Larsen, GFS, 200, rejects the view of W. Schwahn (Wien. Stud. 1930, 141–9; RE, e<w lang="el-GR">Συμπολιτεία᾿</w>, col. 1210) that they were the highest <w lang="el-GR">ἄρχοντες</w> acting as a committee; see too Touloumakos, 34.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">συνῆγε τοὺς ἀποκλήτους κτλ</w>.:</emph>
cf. Livy, xxxv. 46. 1, 'ita dimisso concilio [sc. at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lamia&groupId=665&placeId=1217">Lamia</a>] multitudo omnis in suas ciuitates dilapsa est; rex postero die cum apocletis eorum unde bellum ordiretur consultabat.' Livy (xxxv. 46. 2–51. 10) goes on to record the failure to
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win over <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a>, hesitation in Boeotia (cf. § 2), the alliance of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Amynander&groupId=324&placeId=631">Amynander</a> (through the influence of his brother-in-law, Philip of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Megalopolis&groupId=745&placeId=1360">Megalopolis</a>, a pretender to the Macedonian throne), the Achaean declaration of war on Aetolia and Antiochus, and the first fighting between Roman and Syrian forces, when Menippus wiped out 500 Romans in the precincts of the temple of Apollo at Delium. This led to the Roman war decision (Livy, xxxvi. 1. 1–2. 5).
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Φιλίππου πρεσβεύσαντος</w>:</emph>
as Reiske saw, 'Philip' is an excerptor's slip for 'Antiochus'; cf. Livy, xxxv. 50. 5, 'et ab Achaeis quidem cum tristi responso legatio ad regem rediit: Boeoti nihil certi responderunt: cum Antiochus in Boeotiam uenisset, tum quid sibi faciundum esset se deliberaturos esse.' The Boeotians soon afterwards joined Antiochus; cf. 7. 3–5.
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