<head>The Scipios In Greece</head>Directly the news of the victory at sea reached <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>,<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note2">Supplicatio for the victory off <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phocaea&groupId=891&placeId=1603">Phocaea</a>.</note>the Senate first decreed a public<foreign lang="la">supplicatio</foreign>for nine days,—which means a public and universal holiday, accompanied by the sacrifice of thank offerings to the gods for the happy success,—and next gave audience to the envoys from Aetolia and Manius Acilius.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note3">Answer to the Aetolian Envoys sent, on the intercession of Flamininus, when</note>When both parties had pleaded their cause at some length, the Senate decreed to offer the Aetolians the alternative of committing their when cause unconditionally to the arbitration of the<pb n="263" />Senate, or of paying a thousand talents down and making an offensive and defensive alliance with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note4">Acilius was about to take Naupactus.<bibl n="Liv. 36.34" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 36, 34</bibl>-35:<bibl n="Liv. 37.1" default="NO" valid="yes">37, 1</bibl>.</note>But on the Aetolians desiring the Senate to state definitely on what points they were to submit to such arbitration, the Senate refused to define them. Accordingly the war with the Aetolians went on. . . .
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