<head>Perseus Sends Alexander to Boeotia</head>Being informed that some of the cities of Boeotia remained faithful to him, Perseus sent Alexander<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note14">Mission of Perseus to Boeotia.</note>on a mission to them. On his arrival in Boeotia, Alexander was obliged to abstain from visiting any of the cities except <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Coronea&groupId=496&placeId=932">Coronea</a>, Thisbae,<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note15">The text has<foreign lang="greek">Θήβας,</foreign>which is inconsistent with what follows as to the Thebans. An inscription found on the site of Thisbae supplies the correction of an error as old as Livy (<bibl n="Liv. 42.46" default="NO" valid="yes">42, 46, 47</bibl>). See Hicks's<title>G. I.</title>p. 330.</note>and Haliartus, finding that they offered him no facilities for securing close relations. But he entered those three towns and exhorted their inhabitants to cling to their loyalty to the Macedonians. They received his words with enthusiasm, and voted to send ambassadors to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Macedonia&groupId=723&placeId=428">Macedonia</a>.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note16">Truce made with Q. Marcius. See<bibl n="Liv. 42.43" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 42. 43</bibl>. B. C. 171.</note>Alexander accordingly returned to the king and reported the state of things in Boeotia. A short time afterwards the ambassadors arrived, desiring the king to send aid to the cities which favoured the Macedonian cause; for the Thebans were oppressing them severely, because they would not agree with them and side with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, But Perseus replied that he was precluded by the truce from sending any aid to any one; but he begged them to resist the Thebans to the best of their power, and yet not to go to war with the Romans, but to remain neutral. . . .
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