with Attalus, Pleuratus, and Scerdilaedas, should be included on the same conditions.”  Attalus was king of Asia; the latter, kings of the Thracians and Illyrians.  The conditions were, that “the Aetolians should immediately make war on Philip by land, in which the Romans should assist, with not less than twenty quinqueremes.  That the site and buildings, together with the walls and lands, of all the cities as far as Corcyra, should become the property of the Aetolians, every other kind of booty, of the Romans.  That the Romans should endeavour to put the Aetolians in possession of Acarnania.  If the Aetolians should make peace with Philip, they should insert a stipulation that the peace should stand good only on condition that they abstained from hostilities against the Romans, their allies, and the states subject to them.  In like manner, if the Romans should form an alliance with the king, that they should provide that he should not have liberty to make war upon the Aetolians and their allies.”  Such were the terms agreed upon; and copies of them having been made, they were laid up two years afterwards by the Aetolians at Olympia, and by the Romans in the Capitol, that they might be attested by these consecrated records.  The delay had been occasioned by the Aetolian ambassadors’ having been detained at Rome.  This, however, did not form an impediment to the war’s proceeding.  Both the Aetolians immediately commenced war against Philip, and Laevinus taking, all but the citadel, Zacynthus, a small island near to Aetolia, and having one city of the same name with the island; and also taking Aeniadae and Nasus from the Acarnanians, annexed them to the Aetolians; and also considering that Philip was sufficiently engaged in war with his neighbours to prevent his thinking of Italy, the Carthaginians, and his compact with Hannibal, he retired to Corcyra.

25.  To Philip intelligence of the defection of the Aetolians was brought while in winter quarters at Pella.  As he was about to march an army into Greece at the beginning of the spring, he undertook a sudden expedition into the territories of Oricum and Apollonia, in order that Macedonia might not be molested by the Illyrians, and the cities bordering upon them, in consequence of the terror he would thus strike them with in turn.  The Apollonians came out to oppose him, but he drove them, terrified and dismayed, within their walls.  After devastating the adjacent parts of Illyricum he turned his course into Pelagonia, with the same expedition.  He then took Sintia, a town of the Dardanians, which would have afforded them a passage into Macedonia.  Having with the greatest despatch performed these achievements, not forgetting the war made upon him by the Aetolians and Romans in conjunction, he marched down into Thessaly through Pelagonia, Lyncus, and Bottiaea.  He trusted that people might be induced to take part with him in the war against the Aetolians, and, therefore, leaving Perseus with four thousand