Treaty Between the Achaeans and the Messenians
When the ambassadors of the Spartan exiles arrived in
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the Peloponnese from Rome with a letter from
the Senate to the Achaeans, desiring that measures should be taken for their recall and restoration to their country, the Achaeans resolved to postpone the
consideration of the question until their own ambassadors
should return. After making this answer, they caused the
agreement between themselves and the Messenians to be
engraved on a tablet: granting them, among other favours, a
three years' remission of taxes, in order that the damage done
to their territory should fall upon the Achaeans equally with
the Messenians. note But when Bippus and his
colleagues arrived from Rome, and reported that
the letter in regard to the exiles was not due to
any strong feeling on the part of the Senate, but to the
importunity of the exiles themselves, the Achaeans voted to
make no change.
