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<head lang="la">B. Olymp. 156, 2. I. Res Italiae</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28orth%2Fsion">Ὁρτήσιον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aau%29rogkolh%2Fion">Αὐρογκολήιον</w> <w lemma="paragegono%2Ftwn">παραγεγονότων</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Aperga%2Fmou">Περγάμου</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="diasafou%2Fntwn">διασαφούντων</w> <w lemma="th%2Fn">τήν</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fou">Προυσίου</w> <w lemma="katafro%2Fnhsin">καταφρόνησιν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="sugklh%2Ftou">συγκλήτου</w> <w lemma="paraggelma%2Ftwn">παραγγελμάτων</w>,
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<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dio%2Fti">διότι</w> <w lemma="paraspondh%2Fsas">παρασπονδήσας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sugklei%2Fsas">συγκλείσας</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="%2Ape%2Frgamon">Πέργαμον</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%2Fs">αὐτούς</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Fattalon">Ἄτταλον</w> <w lemma="pa%3Dsan">πᾶσαν</w> <w lemma="bi%2Fan">βίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29nedei%2Fcato">ἐνεδείξατο</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paranomi%2Fan">παρανομίαν</w>,
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<w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="su%2Fgklhtos">σύγκλητος</w> <w lemma="o%29rgisqei%3Dsa">ὀργισθεῖσα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="bare%2Fws">βαρέως</w> <w lemma="fe%2Frousa">φέρουσα</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="gegono%5Cs">γεγονὸς</w> <w lemma="e%29c">ἐξ</w> <w lemma="au%29th%3Ds">αὐτῆς</w> <w lemma="de%2Fka">δέκα</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="kate%2Fsthse">κατέστησε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aleu%2Fkion">Λεύκιον</w> <w lemma="%2A%29ani%2Fkion">Ἀνίκιον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aga%2Fion">Γάιον</w> <w lemma="%2Afa%2Fnnion">Φάννιον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Ako%2Finton">Κόιντον</w> <w lemma="%2Afa%2Fbion">Φάβιον</w> <w lemma="%2Ama%2Fcimon">Μάξιμον</w>,
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<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paraxrh%3Dm%27">παραχρῆμ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29cape%2Fsteilen">ἐξαπέστειλεν</w>, <w lemma="e%29ntola%5Cs">ἐντολὰς</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%3Ds">αὐτοῖς</w> <w lemma="dou%3Dsa">δοῦσα</w> <w lemma="dialu%3Dsai">διαλῦσαι</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="po%2Flemon">πόλεμον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aprousi%2Fan">Προυσίαν</w> <w lemma="a%29nagka%2Fsai">ἀναγκάσαι</w> <w lemma="di%2Fkas">δίκας</w> <w lemma="u%28posxei%3Dn">ὑποσχεῖν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29atta%2Flw%7C">Ἀττάλῳ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="po%2Flemon">πόλεμον</w> <w lemma="a%29dikhma%2Ftwn">ἀδικημάτων</w>. —
<head>V. Affairs of Italy</head><head>Attalus and Prusias</head>On Hortensius and Aurunculeius returning from Pergamus and reporting how Prusias had treated the orders of the senate with scorn,
and how by treachery he had shut them and Attalus up in Pergamus and been guilty of every kind of violence and lawlessness,
the senate was very indignant and deeply aggrieved at his conduct, and at once appointed ten legates headed by Lucius Aicius, Gaius Fannius, and Quintus Fabius Maximus,
whom they dispatched promptly with orders to put a stop to the war and compel Prusias to make amends to Attalus for the wrongs he had inflicted on him during the war.

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Overview
33.7.1 - 33.7.4
<p rend="Plain Text">The Senate receives a report on Prusias</p> <p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt from de legat. Rom. belongs to res Italiae of Ol. 156, 2 = 155/4 (see p. 41); it records the return to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> of the embassy sent out to the east in spring 155 (1. 2). See Habicht, Hermes, 1956, 105.</p>
Specifics
33.7.1 - 33.7.1
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Ὁρτήσιον καὶ Αὐρογκολήιον</w>:</emph> L. Hortensius and C. Aurunculeius; see 1. 2 n. </p> <p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῶν τῆς συγκλήτου παραγγελμάτων</w>:</emph> cf. 1. 2, <w lang="el-GR">ἐντολὰς δοῦσα κωλύειν τὸν Προυσίαν Ἀττάλῳ πολεμεῖν</w> . </p>
33.7.2 - 33.7.2
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">πᾶσαν βίαν . . . καὶ παρανομίαν</w>:</emph> for Prusias' attack on Pergamum in summer 155 see xxxii. 15, recounting his sack of the Nicephorium, and subsequent plunder of other temples. </p>
33.7.3 - 33.7.3
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Λεύκιον Ἀνίκιον καὶ Γάιον Φάννιον καὶ Κόιντον Φάβιον Μάξιμον</w>:</emph> the sending of decemviri indicates the serious view taken of Prusias' intransigence. According to App. Mith. 3, after hearing of Attalus' imprisonment in Pergamum, the Senate <w lang="el-GR">πρέσβεις ἑτέρους ἔπεμπον, οἳ τὸν Προυσίαν ἐκέλευον Ἀττάλῳ τὰς βλάβας ἀποτῖσαι</w> . L. Anicius Gallus defeated Genthius in 168, as praetor, and was cos. 160 (cf. xxx. 22. 1 n.); C. Fannius Strabo, cos. 161, was legatus to Dalmatia in 157 (xxxii. 9. 3 n.); Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was the son of L. Aemilius Paullus (cf. xviii. 35. 6 n.); he was praetor in 149, cos. 145. P., following his usual practice (Cic. Att. xiii. 30. 2), does not give the names of the other seven legati. </p>

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