At about the same time Athenaeus arrived with eighty decked ships of which five were Rhodian quadriremes from the fleet that had been sent to the Cretan war, twenty were Cyzicene, twenty-seven belonged to Attalus, and the rest to the other allies.
Sailing to the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hellespont&groupId=620&placeId=1141">Hellespont</a> and approaching the cities which owed allegiance to Prusias he made frequent landings and inflicted damage on their territory.
The senate, after hearing the report of the legates who had returned from Prusias, at once dispatched three others, Appius Claudius, Lucius Oppius, and Aulus Postumius,
who on reaching Asia put an end to the war, inducing both kings to make a treaty,
by the terms of which Prusias was to hand over at once twenty decked ships to Attalus, and to pay him five hundred talents in twenty years,
each keeping the territory that was theirs before they entered on hostilities.
Prusias also undertook to repair the damage he had done to the territory of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Methymna&groupId=766&placeId=1388">Methymna</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Aegae&groupId=285&placeId=560">Aegae</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cyme&groupId=510&placeId=960">Cyme</a>, and Heracleia, paying a hundred talents to those cities.
The treaty having been drawn up on these terms, Attalus withdrew his forces both military and naval to his own country.
Such were the incidents in the quarrel between Attalus and Prusias and such was its end. . . .
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