<head>The Commissioners In Asia</head>At <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Apameia&groupId=340&placeId=659">Apameia</a> the Proconsul and the ten commissioners,<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note90">Final settlement of the affairs of Asia Minor by the commissioners. Autumn B. C. 188.</note>after listening to all who appealed to them, assigned in the case of disputed claims to territory, money, or anything else, certain cities in which the parties might have their claims settled by arbitration. The general scheme which they drew out was as follows: Those of the autonomous cities which, having formerly paid tribute to Antiochus, had remained faithful to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, they relieved from tribute altogether. Those that had been tributary to Attalus they ordered to pay the same tribute to his successor Eumenes. Such as had abandoned the Roman friendship and joined Antiochus in the war, they ordered to pay Eumenes the amount of tribute imposed on them by Antiochus. The people of Colophon, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Notium&groupId=798&placeId=1442">Notium</a>, Cymae, and Mylae, they freed from tribute. To the Clazomenians, besides this relief, they gave the Island <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Drymussa&groupId=545&placeId=1024">Drymussa</a>. To the Ephesians they restored the sacred district which they had been obliged by the enemy to evacuate. . . .<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note91">See<bibl n="Liv. 38.39" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 38, 39</bibl>. Some words are lost referring to grants to the people of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Ilium&groupId=645&placeId=1183">Ilium</a>.</note>To the people of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chios&groupId=462&placeId=863">Chios</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Smyrna&groupId=981&placeId=1733">Smyrna</a>, and Erythrae, besides other marks of honour, they assigned the territory which they severally expressed a wish to have at the time, and alleged was their right, from regard for their loyalty and zeal which they had shown to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> during the war. To the Phocaeans they restored their ancestral city and the territory which they possessed of old. They next transacted business with the Rhodians, giving them <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lycia&groupId=711&placeId=1304">Lycia</a> and Caria up to the river <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Maeander&groupId=725&placeId=1330">Maeander</a>, except Telmissus. As to king Eumenes and his brothers, not content with the liberal provision made for them in their treaty with Antiochus, they now assigned him in addition the Chersonese, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lysimacheia&groupId=719&placeId=1320">Lysimacheia</a>, and the castles on the borders of these districts, and such country as had been subject to Antiochus in Europe; and in Asia, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phrygia&groupId=896&placeId=1611">Phrygia</a> on the<pb n="301" />Hellespont, Great <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phrygia&groupId=896&placeId=1611">Phrygia</a>, so much of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Mysia&groupId=782&placeId=1417">Mysia</a> as he had before subjugated, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lycaonia&groupId=707&placeId=1296">Lycaonia</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Milyas&groupId=770&placeId=1395">Milyas</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lydia&groupId=718&placeId=1318">Lydia</a>, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Tralles&groupId=1042&placeId=1836">Tralles</a>, Ephesus, and Telmissus: all these they gave to Eumenes. As to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pamphylia&groupId=833&placeId=1505">Pamphylia</a>, Eumenes alleged that it was on this side Taurus, the ambassadors of Antiochus on the other; and the commissioners feeling unable to decide, referred the question to the Senate. Having thus decided the largest number and most important of the matters brought before them, they started on the road towards the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hellespont&groupId=620&placeId=1141">Hellespont</a>, intending on their journey to still further secure the settlement arrived at with the Gauls. . . .<pb />
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