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A History of Rome, to the Establishment of the Empire
A History of Rome to the Establishment of the Empire Author:Henry George Liddell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XL. WAR WITH ANTIOCHUS, AND SETTLEMENT OF EASTERN AFFAIRS. (192—188 B.C.) § 1. Antiochua ordered to quit Europe. § 2. HU court at Epheeus visited b... more »y Hannibal: how this happened. § 3. Hannibal's plan. § 4. Intrigues of Etoliaus in Greece: death of Nabis: Sparta joins Achsoan League. § 5. Flamininus despatched to Greece: Thoas the jEtolian persuades Antiochus to cross over into Greece. § 6. Antiochus lands at Demetrius: welcomed by the northern Greeks: opinion of Hannibal. § 7. Antiochus offends Philip, who offers his sword to Rome: frivolity of Antiochus. § 8. Next spring, Antiochus advances into Acarnania: retreats to Thermopylae. § 9. The pass of Thermopylae forced by the Consul Glabrio: Cato. § 10. Advice of Flamininus to Glabrio not to crush .ftolians. § 11. Flamininus puts all Peloponnesus under the Achaean League: his warning. § 12. Next year, L. Scipio, with his brother Publius as Legate, takes the command against Antiochus. § 13. Operations by sea: Battle of Myonnesus. § 14. Great army of Antiochus: advice of Scipio to the King. § 15. Battle of Magnesia: utter defeat of the Syrians. § 16. Terms of peace dictated by Scipio. § 17. Effects at Kome of the Syrian triumph. § 18. M. Fulvius Nobilior reduces .Etolians: Flamininus again interferes. § 19. Miserable state of Greece. § 20. Cn. Hanlius Vulso makes war, without authority, upon the Galatians. § 21. Distribution of the Asiatic possessions of Antiochus. § 22. Fruits of the Galatian War. § 1. Notwithstanding the warning of Flamininus, Antiochus crossed the Hellespont (192 B.c.). Abydos yielded to him. Lysimacheia, which had been destroyed by Philip, he ordered to be rebuilt; and it was at this place that he was found by the Commissioners of the Senate.8 They told him not to imagine that it was for his sake t...« less