<head>Conduct of the Rhodians</head>When the question was put to the vote in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> the majority was in favour of sending the envoys to try to make peace.
The debate had decided the relative strength of parties in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> in favour of the one which sided with Perseus and against those who were anxious to preserve their country and their laws.
The prytaneis hereupon at once appointed envoys to bring the war to an end, sending to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> Hagepolis, Diocles, and Clinombrotus and to the Roman commander and to Perseus, Damon, Nicostratus, Hagesilochus, and Telephus.
Their subsequent proceedings were in accord with this, and even more offensive, making their fault inexcusable.
For they at once sent envoys to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a> to renew friendly relations with the Cretans in general, and to beg them to consider the circumstances and the danger they were in, and to ally themselves with the Rhodian people and have the same enemies and friends.
They were also charged to speak to the several cities in the same sense.
Walbank Commentary