<head>Congress of Nicaea</head>Having said this Flamininus refrained from any further<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note5">Demands of Attalus,</note>speech of his own; but turning to the others he bade them deliver what they had been severally charged to say by those who sent them. And first Dionysodorus, the envoy of Attalus, took up the discourse by declaring that "Philip ought to restore the king's ships which had been captured in the battle at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chios&groupId=462&placeId=863">Chios</a> and their crews with them; and to restore also the temple of Aphrodite to its original state, as well as the Nicephorium, both of which he had destroyed."<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note6">of the Rhodians,</note>He was followed by the Rhodian navarch Acesimbrotus, who demanded "That Philip should evacuate Peraea, which he had taken from them; withdraw his garrisons from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Iasus&groupId=643&placeId=1177">Iasus</a>, Bargylia, and Euromus; restore the Perinthians to their political union with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Byzantium&groupId=415&placeId=767">Byzantium</a>; and evacuate <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sestos&groupId=969&placeId=1717">Sestos</a>, Abydos, and all commercial ports and harbours in Asia."<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note7">of the Achaeans.</note>Following the Rhodians the Achaeans demanded "The restoration of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a> uninjuired."<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note8">and of the Aetolians.</note>Then came the Aetolians, who first demanded, like the Romans, that "Philip should entirely evacuate Greece; and, secondly, that he should restore to them uninjured all cities formerly members of the Aetolian league."<pb n="205" />
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