<head>Dispatch of Legates to Antiochus by the Senate</head>The senate, when they heard that Antiochus had become master of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Egypt&groupId=556&placeId=368">Egypt</a> and very nearly of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Alexandria&groupId=1063&placeId=1868">Alexandria</a> itself,
thinking that the aggrandizement of this king concerned them in a measure, dispatched Gaius Popilius as their legate
to bring the war to an end, and to observe what the exact position of affairs was.
Such was the situation in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a>.
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