<head>Aemilius in the Peloponnese</head><head>State of Aetolia</head>The Aetolians were accustomed to get their living by robbery and similar lawless conduct.
And as long as it was in their power to raid and plunder the Greeks they lived upon them, regarding every country as an enemy.
But afterwards under Roman administration they were prevented from supply ignorant their wants from outside, and had to turn upon each other.
Formerly in time of civil war, there was no excess of which they had not been guilty, and having a short time previously tasted each other's blood in the massacres in the territory of Arsinoë, they were prepared to stick at nothing, having become utterly brutalized, so they did not even allow their leading men to meet in council.
Thus the whole of Aetolia was full of turbulence, lawless violence, and bloodshed; not one of their actions being the result of deliberation and set purpose, but all done at haphazard and confusedly, as if a whirlwind had descended on them.
Walbank Commentary