<head>Conditions imposed by Scipio after the Battle of Magnesia</head>After the victory gained by the Romans over Antiochus they occupied <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sardis&groupId=948&placeId=1686">Sardis</a> and its citadels, . . . and Musaeus came from Antiochus under flag of truce.
Upon Scipio receiving him courteously, he said that Antiochus wished to send envoys to discuss the whole situation.
He therefore desired that a safe conduct should be given to this mission.
Upon Scipio\'s consenting, he returned, and after a few days the king\'s envoys arrived. They were Zeuxis, the former governor of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lydia&groupId=718&placeId=1318">Lydia</a>, and Antipater the king\'s nephew.
They were anxious first of all to meet King Eumenes, as they were alarmed lest owing to previous friction he might be somewhat disposed to do them injury.
But on finding him, contrary to their expectation, quite reasonable and gentle, they at once took steps to obtain a public audience.
Up being summoned to the Army Council, they first of all made a general appeal of some length to the Romans, exhorting them to use their success mildly and magnanimously,
and saying that this would not so much further the interest of Antiochus as that of the Romans themselves, now that Fortune had made them rulers and masters of the whole world.
But their main object was to ask what they must do in order to secure peace and alliance with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.
The members of the Council had previously sat to consider this, and they now asked Scipio to communicate their decision.
Walbank Commentary