Manlius the proconsul exacting three hundred talents from Ariarathes received him into the Roman alliance.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τμηθέντων δὲ τῶν ὁρκίων ἐπὶ τούτοις</w>:</emph>
cf. Livy, xxxviii. 39. 1, 'consul in hoc foedus iurauit'; this will be the meaning, though P. is not explicit (cf. 24. 3 n., 42. 10 n.). Manlius was in fact proconsul (cf. Livy, xxxviii. 37. 1, dein pro consule); but <w lang="el-GR">στρατηγός</w> has its common meaning of 'general' (cf. Mason, 156).
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Κόιντον Μινύκιον Θέρμον καὶ Λεύκιον τὸν ἀδελφό?ν</w>:</emph>
Q. Minucius Thermus, cos. 193, was one of the ten legati (cf. 42. 6 n.); Appian, Syr. 39, wrongly describes him as <w lang="el-GR">χιλίαρχος</w> (24. 3 n.). See Mnzer, RE, 'Minucius (65)', cols. 1967–71; on his death see 47 n. On L. Manlius see 42. 7 n.; he may be the Manlius who went to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lycaonia&groupId=707&placeId=1296">Lycaonia</a> to receive grain and an instalment of 1,000 talents from Antiochus (Diod. xxix. 13).
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τὰ χρήματα παρὰ τῶν Ὀροανδέων</w>:</emph>
cf. 42. 7 n.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Κόιντον Φάβιον τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ στρατηγόν</w>:</emph>
Q. Fabius Labeo, praetor 189, had replaced L. Aemilius Regillus as commander of the fleet in the Aegean; he made a not entirely successful visit to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>, perhaps connected with Hannibal's sojourn in Gortyn (Plut. Flam. 20. 2; Nepos, Hann. 9; Iustin. xxxii. 4. 3 f.; Guarducci, Riv. fil. 1929, 82; van Effenterre, 261 n. 6), and operated off <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thrace&groupId=1030&placeId=509">Thrace</a> (Livy, xxxvii. 60. 2–7, probably Polybian with additions from Antias). For dedications by him, now and later, at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Delos&groupId=533&placeId=1004">Delos</a> see Insc. de Dlos, 442 B l. 103 (= ILS, 8765), 1429 A l. 19 (in 183, as consul), 1441 A l. 104, 1450 A l. 66; cf. Mnzer, RE, 'Fabius (91)', cols. 1773–5.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">πάλιν πλεῖν . . . εἰς Πάταρα</w>:</emph>
'to sail on to Patara' (on <w lang="el-GR">πάλιν</w> see v. 27. 2 n.). Paton translates 'to sail back to Patara', but there is no reason to suppose he had been there. Patara, a coastal town east of the mouth of the river <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Xanthus&groupId=1060&placeId=1864">Xanthus</a>, was the main city of the Lycian confederacy (Livy, xxxvii. 15. 6; TAM, ii. 421; IGR, iii. 664, 704 II B); its fine harbour (Ps.-Scylax, 100; Strabo, xiv. 3. 6, C. 666; Livy, xxxvii. 17. 1–10 (Aemilius Regillus' abortive expedition); App. B.C. iv. 81) was important during the wars of the Diadochi (Diod. xix. 64. 5, xx. 93. 3), but is now marshland. See Magie, i. 520; ii. 1375 n. 15; Radke, RE, 'Patara', cols. 2555–61 (under 'Nachtrge').
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παραλαβόντα . . . ναῦς διαπρῆσαι</w>:</emph>
as laid down in the treaty (§ 13 n.); but not all Antiochus' ships were destroyed (cf. xxxi. 2. 11). Val. Max. vii. 3. 4 has an absurd story that Fabius was to take only half the ships, but cut them all down the middle 'ut eum tota classe priuaret'. It is noteworthy that <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> did not get the ships (as Eumenes got the elephants: see below). Livy, xxxviii. 39. 4, records that from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lycia&groupId=711&placeId=1304">Lycia</a> Fabius crossed to Piraeus and, having been joined by the rest of his ships from Ephesus, returned to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a>; he then mentions Cn. Manlius' gift of Antiochus' elephants to Eumenes (but on these cf. xxxi. 2. 11). There follows a passage corresponding to the next Polybian fragment.
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