At this time letters reached <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Samos&groupId=944&placeId=1680">Samos</a> addressed to Lucius Aemilius Regulus and Eumenes from Lucius Scipio the consul and from Publius Scipio
informing them of the truce made with the Aetolians and of the march of the Roman army towards the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hellespont&groupId=620&placeId=1141">Hellespont</a>.
The Aetolians had also informed Antiochus and Seleucus of this.
Walbank Commentary