<head>Embassies to Antiochus from Epirus and Elis</head>While Antiochus was at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a> at the beginning of the winter, Charops came to him as envoy on the part of the whole nation of Epirus, and Callistratus on that of the city of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elis&groupId=560&placeId=1048">Elis</a>.
The Epirots begged him not to involve them in the first place in a war with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, exposed as they were to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> in front of all Greece.
If indeed he was capable of protecting Epirus and assuring their safety, they said they would be glad to receive him in their cities and harbours,
but if he did not decide to do this at present they asked him to pardon them if they were afraid of war with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.
The Eleans begged him to send succour to their city, for as the Achaeans had voted for war, they were apprehensive of being attacked by them.
The king replied to the Epirots that he would send envoys to speak to them on the subject of their joint interests,
and to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elis&groupId=560&placeId=1048">Elis</a> he dispatched a force of a thousand infantry under the command of the Cretan Euphanes.
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