<head>War Between <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> and Crete</head>Heracleides came to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> in the<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note28">Heracleides brings to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> Laodice, daughter of Antiochus Epiphanes, and his supposed son Alexander Balas.</note>middle of summer, bringing Laodice and Alexander, and stayed there a long time, employing all the arts of cunning and corruption to win the support of the Senate. . . .Astymedes of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> being appointed ambassador and<pb n="477" />navarch at the same time, came forward immediately and addressed the Senate on the war with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note29">The quarrel of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>.</note>The Senate listened with attention, and immediately appointed Quintus at the head of a commission to put an end to the war. . . .
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