<p rend="Plain Text">Polybius is invited to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sicily&groupId=973&placeId=1724">Sicily</a>, but returns home from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corcyra&groupId=491&placeId=923">Corcyra</a> believing the war to be over</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">This excerpt from de sent. belongs to res Graeciae of Ol. 157, 3 = 150/49, and refers to 149 (cf. p. 46).</p>
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36.11.1 - 36.11.1
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">γραμμάτων . . . παρὰ τοῦ Μανιλίου</w>:</emph>
M'. Manilius, cos. 149, commanded the land forces in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Africa&groupId=300&placeId=294">Africa</a> (3. 9 n.); he probably sent this letter before leaving <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a>, influenced by Scipio Aemilianus, who was serving under him as military tribune (7. 5 n.). P. was obviously wanted for his technical skill (cf. Ziegler, RE, 'Polybios (1)', col. 1454; Pdech, Mthode, 193 n. 470), and was going in some sense as an Achaean representative (Walbank, Polybius, 10 n. 49).
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Λιλύβαιον</w>:</emph>
cf. i. 42. 7 n.; it is modern Marsala. It was to be a war base, as had been intended in the original Roman plan for the Hannibalic War (iii. 41. 3, 61. 9).
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ἔδοξε τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς</w></emph>
: no doubt a decision of the magistrates; no assembly or council was needed for this.
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36.11.2 - 36.11.2
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">θερείας ἀρχομένης</w>:</emph>
in v. 1. 3 the phrase is used of Hannibal's settinssg out from the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Ebro&groupId=549&placeId=1031">Ebro</a> in 218 and is loosely identified with the rising of the Pleiades (dated to 22 May in v. 1. 1 n., but to 28 May by Werner, Der Beginn der römischen Republik (Munich, 1963), 47 n. 5; cf. Walbank, Polis and Imperium, 75 n. 20).
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36.11.3 - 36.11.3
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">προσπεπτωκότα τοῖς Κερκυραίοις</w>:</emph>
it is not clear why the consuls conveyed their message to the Corcyraean authorities. They did not say the war was over: that, P. makes clear, was his own deduction. See further Pdech, Mthode, 199–200.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ὁμήρους . . . παραδεδώκασιν</w>:</emph>
cf. 5. 8–9.
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Walbank Commentary