<head>The Boeotians and Rhodians</head>When the report of the commissioners from Asia concerning <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> and the other states had been<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note17">War is decided upon at the expiration of the truce.</note>at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, the Senate called in the ambassadors of Perseus, Solon and Hippias: who endeavoured to argue the whole case and to deprecate the anger<pb n="361" />of the Senate; and particularly to defend their master on the subject of the attempt upon the life of Eumenes.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note18">Attempted assassination of Eumenes at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Delphi&groupId=534&placeId=363">Delphi</a>.<bibl n="Liv. 42.16" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 42, 16</bibl>, B. C. 172.</note>When they had finished all they had to urge, the Senate, which had all the while been resolved on war, bade them depart forthwith from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>; and ordered all other Macedonians also that happened to be staying in the country to quit <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> within thirty days. The Senate then called upon the Consuls to act at once and see that they moved in good time. . . .
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