<head>Release of Achaeans Refused</head><note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note4">Hultsch places an extract from Aulus Gellius (6, 14, 8) relating to the mission of the three philosophers as ch. 2 of this book. The substance is given in the note on p. 466. It is more in place there, as Polybius expressly said that he would give the whole story together (32, 25).</note>When the ambassadors returned to Achaia with the news<pb n="471" />that the restoration of all the detenus had been only lost in the Senate by a narrow majority, the people becoming hopeful and elated sent Telecles of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Megalopolis&groupId=745&placeId=1360">Megalopolis</a> and Anaxidamus on a fresh mission at once.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note5">The Achaeans are encouraged to try again.</note>That was the state of things in the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Peloponnese&groupId=861&placeId=1552">Peloponnese</a>. . . .
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