Fulvius next agreed with the Aetolians to make peace on the following conditions.
They were to pay two hundred Euboic talents at once and three hundred more in six years in yearly instalments of fifty;
they were to restore to the Romans in six months without ransom the prisoners and deserters who were in their hands;
they were neither to retain in their League nor to receive into it in future any of the cities which after the crossing of Lucius Cornelius Scipio had been taken by the Romans or had entered into alliance with them;
the whole of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cephallenia&groupId=450&placeId=838">Cephallenia</a> was to be excluded from this treaty.
Such were the general conditions of peace then roughly sketched. They had first of all to be accepted by the Aetolians and then submitted to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.
The Athenians and Rhodians remained on the spot awaiting the decision of the Aetolians, while Damoteles and Phaeneas returned home and explained the conditions.
On the whole the people were satisfied with them, for they were all such as they had not hoped to obtain. For a certain time they hesitated about the cities belonging to their League; but finally agreed to the proposal.
Fulvius, having entered Ambracia, allowed the Aetolians to depart under flag of truce; but carried away all the decorative objects, statues, and pictures, of which there were a considerable number, as the town had once been the royal seat of Pyrrhus.
A crown of a hundred and fifty talents was also presented to him.
Having settled everything there, he marched into the interior of Aetolia, being surprised at receiving no answer from the Aetolians.
On arriving at Amphilochian <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a>, which is a hundred and eighty stades distance from Ambracia, he encamped there.
Here he was met by Damoteles, who informed him that the Aetolians had passed a decree ratifying the conditions he had agreed to; and they then separated, the Aetolians returning home and Fulvius proceeding to Ambracia.
He there occupied himself with preparations for taking his army across to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cephallenia&groupId=450&placeId=838">Cephallenia</a>;
and the Aetolians appointed and dispatched Phaeneas and Nicander as envoys to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> about the peace;
for nothing at all in it was valid without the consent of the Roman People.
Walbank Commentary