Greek Texts & Translations

When the report of the commissioners from Asia concerning Rhodes and the other states had been ^note at Rome, the Senate called in the ambassadors of Perseus, Solon and Hippias: who endeavoured to argue the whole case and to deprecate the anger

of the Senate; and particularly to defend their master on the subject of the attempt upon the life of Eumenes. ^note When they had finished all they had to urge, the Senate, which had all the while been resolved on war, bade them depart forthwith from Rome; and ordered all other Macedonians also that happened to be staying in the country to quit Italy within thirty days. The Senate then called upon the Consuls to act at once and see that they moved in good time. . . .