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<head lang="la">II. Res Graeciae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Apelopo%2Fnnhson">Πελοπόννησον</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="me%2Fn">μέν</w>, <w lemma="e%29%2Fti">ἔτι</w> <w lemma="%2Afilopoi%2Fmenos">Φιλοποίμενος</w> <w lemma="strathgou%3Dntos">στρατηγοῦντος</w>, <w lemma="ei%29%2Fs">εἴς</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="e%29cape%2Fsteile">ἐξαπέστειλε</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqnos">ἔθνος</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedaimoni%2Fwn">Λακεδαιμονίων</w> <w lemma="po%2Flews">πόλεως</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fs">πρός</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fa">βασιλέα</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="a%29nanewsome%2Fnous">ἀνανεωσομένους</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="prou+pa%2Frxousan">προϋπάρχουσαν</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3D%7C">αὐτῷ</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fan">συμμαχίαν</w>, <w lemma="e%29dhlw%2Fsamen">ἐδηλώσαμεν</w>, <w lemma="fhsi%5Cn">φησὶν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Apolu%2Fbios">Πολύβιος</w>.
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<w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29nestw%3Dta">ἐνεστῶτα</w> <w lemma="xro%2Fnon">χρόνον</w>, <w lemma="%2A%29aristai%2Fnou">Ἀρισταίνου</w> <w lemma="strathgou%3Dntos">στρατηγοῦντος</w>, <w lemma="oi%28%2F">οἵ</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fou">Πτολεμαίου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="pre%2Fsbeis">πρέσβεις</w> <w lemma="h%28%3Dkon">ἧκον</w>, <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="%2Amega%2Flh%7C">Μεγάλῃ</w> <w lemma="po%2Flei">πόλει</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="suno%2Fdou">συνόδου</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28parxou%2Fshs:">ὑπαρχούσης·</w>
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<w lemma="e%29capesta%2Flkei">ἐξαπεστάλκει</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="basileu%5Cs">βασιλεὺς</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnhs">Εὐμένης</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%2Fs">πρεσβευτάς</w>, <w lemma="e%29paggello%2Fmenos">ἐπαγγελλόμενος</w> <w lemma="e%28kato%5Cn">ἑκατὸν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ei%29%2Fkosi">εἴκοσι</w> <w lemma="ta%2Flanta">τάλαντα</w> <w lemma="dw%2Fsein">δώσειν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w>, <w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="w%28%3D%7C">ᾧ</w>, <w lemma="daneizome%2Fnwn">δανειζομένων</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftwn">τούτων</w>, <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="to%2Fkwn">τόκων</w> <w lemma="misqodotei%3Dsqai">μισθοδοτεῖσθαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="boulh%5Cn">βουλὴν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="koinai%3Ds">κοιναῖς</w> <w lemma="suno%2Fdois">συνόδοις</w>.
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<w lemma="h%28%3Dkon">ἧκον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Aseleu%2Fkou">Σελεύκου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="presbeutai%2F">πρεσβευταί</w>, <w lemma="th%2Fn">τήν</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="fili%2Fan">φιλίαν</w> <w lemma="a%29nanewso%2Fmenoi">ἀνανεωσόμενοι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dekanai+%2Fan">δεκαναΐαν</w> <w lemma="makrw%3Dn">μακρῶν</w> <w lemma="ploi%2Fwn">πλοίων</w> <w lemma="e%29paggello%2Fmenoi">ἐπαγγελλόμενοι</w> <w lemma="dw%2Fsein">δώσειν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w>.
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<w lemma="e%29xou%2Fshs">ἐχούσης</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="suno%2Fdou">συνόδου</w> <w lemma="pragmatikw%3Ds">πραγματικῶς</w>, <w lemma="prw%3Dtoi">πρῶτοι</w> <w lemma="parh%3Dlqon">παρῆλθον</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aniko%2Fdhmon">Νικόδημον</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29hlei%3Don">Ἠλεῖον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Fs">τούς</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="r%28hqe%2Fntas">ῥηθέντας</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftw%7C">συγκλήτῳ</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgous">λόγους</w> <w lemma="u%28f%27">ὑφ᾽</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3Dn">αὑτῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedaimoni%2Fwn">Λακεδαιμονίων</w> <w lemma="po%2Flews">πόλεως</w> <w lemma="dih%3Dlqon">διῆλθον</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="a%29pokri%2Fseis">ἀποκρίσεις</w> <w lemma="a%29ne%2Fgnwsan">ἀνέγνωσαν</w>,
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<w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="lamba%2Fnein">λαμβάνειν</w> <w lemma="e%29kdoxh%5Cn">ἐκδοχὴν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fti">ὅτι</w> <w lemma="dusarestou%3Dntai">δυσαρεστοῦνται</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="teixw%3Dn">τειχῶν</w> <w lemma="suntele%2Fsei">συντελέσει</w>* <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="katalu%2Fsei">καταλύσει</w> ?<w lemma=""></w>* <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="%2Akompasi%2Fw%7C">Κομπασίῳ</w> <w lemma="diafqare%2Fntwn">διαφθαρέντων</w>, <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="mh%5Cn">μὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fkuro%2Fn">ἄκυρόν</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="poiei%3Dn">ποιεῖν</w>.
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<w lemma="ou%29qeno%5Cs">οὐθενὸς</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Ft%27">οὔτ᾽</w> <w lemma="a%29nteipo%2Fntos">ἀντειπόντος</w> <w lemma="ou%29%2Fte">οὔτε</w> <w lemma="sunhgorh%2Fsantos">συνηγορήσαντος</w>, <w lemma="ou%28%2Ftw">οὕτω</w> <w lemma="pws">πως</w> <w lemma="parepe%2Fmfqh">παρεπέμφθη</w>.
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<w lemma=""></w> <w lemma="%2Ameta%5C">Μετὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftous">τούτους</w> <w lemma="ei%29sh%3Dlqon">εἰσῆλθον</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2Aeu%29me%2Fnous">Εὐμένους</w> <w lemma="pre%2Fsbeis">πρέσβεις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%2Fn">τήν</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fan">συμμαχίαν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="patrikh%5Cn">πατρικὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29nenew%2Fsanto">ἀνενεώσαντο</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="xrhma%2Ftwn">χρημάτων</w> <w lemma="e%29paggeli%2Fan">ἐπαγγελίαν</w> <w lemma="diesa%2Ffhsan">διεσάφησαν</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="polloi%3Ds">πολλοῖς</w>.
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<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="plei%2Fw">πλείω</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tau%2Ftas">ταύτας</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="u%28poqe%2Fseis">ὑποθέσεις</w> <w lemma="dialexqe%2Fntes">διαλεχθέντες</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="mega%2Flhn">μεγάλην</w> <w lemma="eu%29%2Fnoian">εὔνοιαν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="filanqrwpi%2Fan">φιλανθρωπίαν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w> <w lemma="e%29mfh%2Fnantes">ἐμφήναντες</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqnos">ἔθνος</w>,
<head>III. Affairs of Greece</head><head>The Achaean League and the Kings</head>I have already stated that while Philopoemen was still strategus, the Achaean League sent an embassy to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> on behalf of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>, and other envoys to King Ptolemy to renew their existing alliance;
and in the present year when Aristaenus was strategus the envoys came back from Ptolemy during the sessions of the Achaean Assembly at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Megalopolis&groupId=745&placeId=1360">Megalopolis</a>.
King Eumenes had also sent envoys promising to give the Achaeans a hundred and twenty talents, that they might lend it out and spend the interest in paying the members of the Achaean Parliament during its session.
Envoys also came from King Seleucus to renew the alliance with him, promising to give the Achaeans a flotilla of ten long ships.
The Assembly having set to work, Nicodemus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elis&groupId=560&placeId=1048">Elis</a> first came forward, and after reporting the terms in which they had spoken before the senate on behalf of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>, read the answer of the senate, from which it was easy to infer that they were displeased at the completion of the walls and at the . . . of those executed at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Compasium&groupId=488&placeId=917">Compasium</a>, but that they did not revoke their previous decisions.
As there was neither any opposition or support the matter was shelved.
The envoys of Eumenes were the next to appear. They renewed the ancient alliance, informed the Assembly of the promise of money
and withdrew after speaking at some length on both these subjects and expressing the great goodwill and friendly feelings of the king towards the League.

Walbank Commentary

Overview
22.7.1 - 22.10.15
<p rend="Plain Text">Achaean affairs (185): envoys from Eumenes and Ptolemy: visit from Q. Caecilius Metellus</p> <p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt from de legat. gent. belongs to the res Graeciae of Ol. 148, 3 = 186/5 (cf. p. 11); Livy omitted its contents as of no interest to his readers. For Errington's hypothesis that 7. 1–9. 14 refers to 188/7 and only 10. 1–15 to 186/5 see pp. 9–10.</p>
Specifics
22.7.1 - 22.7.1
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ἔτι Φιλοποίμενος στρατηγοῦντος</w>:</emph> in 187/6; see 3. 4 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ἐξαπέστειλε πρεσβευτάς</w>:</emph> the one sent to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> about <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> (not 'on behalf of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>', Paton) was Nicodemus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elis&groupId=560&placeId=1048">Elis</a> (3. 4 n.). </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">πρὸς . . . Πτολεμαῖον</w>:</emph> cf. 3. 6 n. for the names of these envoys. </p>
22.7.2 - 22.7.2
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">κατὰ δὲ τὸν ἐνεστῶτα χρόνον</w>:</emph> Ol. 148, 3 = 186/5. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ἀρισταίνου στρατηγοῦντος</w>:</emph> for 186/5. On Aristaenus see xi. 11. 7 n., xviii. 1. 4 n. (addendum in Vol. II, p. 650); Lehmann, 216–65, 391–2, rejecting Deininger's attempted differentiation between Aristaenus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Megalopolis&groupId=745&placeId=1360">Megalopolis</a> and Aristaenus of Dyme. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῆς συνόδου τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ὑπαρχούσης</w>:</emph> on the Achaean synodoi, meetings of the assembly and council, along with the magistrates, see below pp. 406–14 (appendix to book xxix); this supersedes the discussion in ii. 37. 8 n. On this synodos of 185 see Larsen, 95, 175–6 (but he takes it to be a meeting of the council). Since Philopoemen's reform of 188 (cf. xxi. 32 c n.) synodoi could be held at towns other than Aegium. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">μισθοδοτεῖσθαι τὴν βουλὴν . . . ἐπὶ ταῖς κοιναῖς συνόδοις</w>:</emph> 'to pay the council on the occasion of the federal meetings'; cf. Diod. xxix. 17, who erroneously gives the figure of 20 talents. The boule will have attended all synodoi; and though there is no direct evidence of probouleusis, and indeed probouleusis seems to have no place in the procedure at specially summoned meetings, syncletoi (cf. Walbank, Mus. Helv. 1970, 143), the often extensive agenda at a synodos must have required preliminary consideration, and this would naturally be a job for the boule. It is not possible to calculate what Eumenes' offer would provide, since we know neither the number of days per year occupied by the four synodoi, nor the size of the boule, nor the rate of payment, nor the interest rate; for speculation see Schwahn, RE, 'Sympoliteia', col. 1256; cf. Rh. Mus. 1930, 178 ff. (1 Attic dr. daily for 1,280 members for 30 days at 8%); De Sanctis, Riv. fil. 1908, 257 n. 1 (1 dr. daily for 8,640 members for 10 days at 12%). Larsen, ES, iv. 366, suggests that to put out this large sum on loan would have reduced interest rates, perhaps one reason why it was rejected. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> It has been argued (cf. Szanto, 125) that the offer implies that the boule was already paid, otherwise the Confederacy stood to gain nothing from the proposal; and alternatively (cf. Schwahn, loc. cit.) <milestone unit="page" n="187">[187]</milestone> that the whole point was to enable the less affluent to servea popular measure likely to provoke the opposition of the rich (as it did). Most scholars have assumed that the boule had not been paid (cf. Aymard, ACA, 331 ff.; Larsen, 95; GFS, 226 n. 2; Welwei, Historia, 1966, 286 n. 20; Errington, 6 n. 3); but Lehmann, 379 ff., rightly observes that the arguments used to oppose the offer (8. 1–13) provide no evidence one way or the other. G. T. Griffith has suggested to me that since emphasis generally comes at the beginning and end of a Greek sentence, <w lang="el-GR">μισθοδοτεῖσθαι</w>, being in the middle, ought not to refer to something novel, hence the boule were probably already in receipt of pay (cf. Tarn, HC <emph rend="superscript">3</emph> , 74 ff.). This carries weight; but whether enough to be decisive (in an author like P.) I doubt. The issue is best left undecided until more evidence becomes available. On the arrival of Eumenes' envoys see 1. 6. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">παρὰ Σελεύκου</w>:</emph> Seleucus IV Philopator (cf. xviii. 51. 8 n., xxi. 6. 2 n., 8. 3, 10. 12–14 n.) was made co-regent with his father, Antiochus III, in 189, and succeeded as sole ruler in 187, probably on 3 or 4 July; cf. Sachs–Wiseman, Iraq, 1954, 202 ff.; Schmitt, Antiochos, 1–2, 20–21; Aymard, tudes, 268–9 (making it 4 June). See 1. 6; Diod. xxix. 17. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τὴν τε φιλίαν ἀνανεωσόμενοι</w>:</emph> a move which betrays an element of rivalry with Eumenes (cf. Will, ii. 254–5). </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οἱ περὶ Νικόδημον</w>:</emph> cf. 3. 4, above § 1 for his dispatch to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> in autumn 187. There may have been good reasons, omitted by our sources, for his delay at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> for a year; one possibility is the Bacchanalian scandal (Livy, xxxix. 8–19), which may well have disrupted normal procedures in 186 (Aymard, tudes, 25). As in § 1, Paton mistranslates <w lang="el-GR">ὑπὲρ τῆς . . . πόλεως</w> (which means 'about <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>'). </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῇ τῶν τειχῶν συντελέσει</w>:</emph> cf. Diod. xxix. 17 (where either he or the excerptor has shown great carelessness); although Diodorus has Roman envoys report the Senate's displeasure, in place of Nicodemus (cf. Aymard, ACA, 156 n. 4), the phrase <w lang="el-GR">τῇ τῶν τειχῶν τῶν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι καθαιρέσει</w> justifies Ursinus' proposal to read <w lang="el-GR">καθαιρέσει</w> here for the rare and inappropriate <w lang="el-GR">συντελέσει</w>, 'completion', of the manuscripts. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">καὶ τῇ καταλύσει</w> . . .:</emph> Casaubon detected the lacuna, and BttnerWobst suggests, e.g. 〈<w lang="el-GR">τῆς πολιτείας, τῶν μὲν μετὰ βίας ἐξαχθέντων</w>〉, <w lang="el-GR">τῶν</w> 〈<w lang="el-GR">δ</w>f〉 <w lang="el-GR">ἐν τῷ κτλ</w>. A reference to the abolition of the 'ancestral constitution' (cf. xxiii. 4. 5; Livy, xxxix. 36. 4, 37. 1) is in place here. On the massacre at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Compasium&groupId=488&placeId=917">Compasium</a> cf. 3. 1 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">οὐ μὴν ἄκυρόν τι ποιεῖν</w>:</emph> the Senate was similarly reluctant to act positively in 188; cf. Livy, xxxviii. 32. 9, 'nouari tamen nihil de Lacedaemoniis placebat' (after envoys were sent to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>; cf. xxi. 32 c n.). See Errington, 151–2; Larsen, GFS, 449. </p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τὴν . . . συμμαχίαν . . . ἀνανεώσαντο</w>:</emph> if <w lang="el-GR">πατρικήν</w> has its full <milestone unit="page" n="188">[188]</milestone> sense, this refers to a treaty made with Attalus, Eumenes' father, not simply to that of 191/0; see xxi. 3 b 1 n. Whether the renewal survived the ensuing debate on Eumenes' offer is not recorded. The Pergamene envoys, or Eumenes himself, may have judged it politic to ignore the hostile terms in which his offer of money was rejected. On <w lang="el-GR">ἀνανεοῦσθαι</w> cf. 3. 5 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν χρημάτων ἐ?παγγελίαν</w>:</emph> cf. § 3. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τοῖς πολλοῖς</w>:</emph> P.'s use of this phrase here and elsewhere (xxix. 24. 1, xxxiii. 16. 2, 16. 7) and of <w lang="el-GR">τὸ πλῆθος</w> (cf. 9. 10, xxix. 23. 9) or <w lang="el-GR">οἱ Ἀχαιοί</w> (xxiii. 16. 12, xxxiii. 16. 6; cf. 9. 13 and Syll. 675 l. 12, <w lang="el-GR">ἔδοξε τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς)</w> is most easily explained if the synodos was a meeting which included the Achaean assembly; see below, appendix following book xxix, pp. 406–14. </p>

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