Teuta Agrees to Pay Tribute to Rome
Then Gnaeus Fulvius sailed back to Rome with the
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larger part of the naval and military forces, while Postumius,
staying behind and collecting forty vessels and a legion from
the cities in that district, wintered there to guard the Ardiaei
and other tribes that had committed themselves to the protection of Rome. Just before spring in the
next year, Teuta sent envoys to Rome and concluded a treaty; in virtue of which she consented
to pay a fixed tribute, and to abandon all Illyricum, with the
exception of some few districts: and what affected Greece more
than anything, she agreed not to sail beyond Lissus with more
than two galleys, and those unarmed. When this arrangement
had been concluded, Postumius sent legates to the Aetolian
and Achaean leagues, who on their arrival first explained the
reasons for the war and the Roman invasion; and then stated
what had been accomplished in it, and read the treaty which
had been made with the Illyrians. The envoys then returned
to Corcyra after receiving the thanks of both leagues: for they
had freed Greece by this treaty from a very serious cause for
alarm, the fact being that the Illyrians were not the enemies
of this or that people, but the common enemies of all alike.
Such were the circumstances of the first armed interference
of the Romans in Illyricum and that part of Europe, and their
first diplomatic relations with Greece; and such too were the
motives which suggested them. But having thus begun, the
Romans immediately afterwards sent envoys to Corinth and
Athens. And it was then that the Corinthians first admitted
Romans to take part in the Isthmian games.
