Attalus therefore on entering the Curia congratulated the senate on all that had happened and solicited their favour in return for his kind offices and ready assistance in the war with Perseus.
He also at some length begged them to send legates to check the desperate revolt of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a> and restore the former submissive temper of that province.
He also spoke about Aenus and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Maronea&groupId=734&placeId=1345">Maronea</a>, asking for these towns to be freely granted to him.
As to what he had been about to say against Eumenes and about the division of the kingdom he did not utter a word.
The senate, supposing that he would appear again and make a special speech about these matters, promised to send legates back with him, and voted on a lavish scale the customary gifts in his honour.
They also promised to give him the two towns in question. But when, after receiving all these kindnesses, he left <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> without doing any of the things they expected, the senate, disabused of their hopes, could take no further action;
but while he was still in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> set free Aenus and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Maronea&groupId=734&placeId=1345">Maronea</a>, thus breaking their promise, but dispatched Publius Licinius Crassus as their legate to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a>. It is difficult to state what instructions they gave this legate,
but from what happened afterwards it is easy to guess what they were, as will be evident when I come to narrate the events.
Walbank Commentary