selected parts of the victim on the altar and consequently resigned his office. ，XXIV. Treaty with the Aetolians.-M. Valerius Laevinus had ,been holding private interviews with some of the leading Aetolians with the view of ascertaining their political leanings. It was arranged that a meeting of their national council should ‘加convened to meet him, and thither he proceeded with some fast-sailing vessels. He commenced his address to the assemblv by alluding to tale captures of Syracuse ana uapua as instances of the success which had attended the arms of Rome in Sicily and Italy, and then proceeded:“It is the practice of the Romans, a practice handed down from their ancestors, to cultivate the friendship of other nations;some of them they have received into citizenship on the same footing as themselves;others they have allowed to remain under such favourable conditions that they preferred alliance to full citizenship. You, Aetolians, will be in all the greater honour because you will have been the 丘st of all the oversea nations to establish fri end relations with us二Philip and the Macedonians you find to yb e troublesome neighbours;I have already dealt a fatal blow to their ambitions and aggressiveness, and I shall reduce them to such a pass that they will not only evacuate those cities which they have wrested from you，but will have enough to do to defend . ,月.J Macedonia itself. The Acarnanians,‘too, whose secession from your league you feel so keenlv. I shall bring back to th 士old 砂I %-J terms by which your rights and suzerainty over them were guaranteed." These assertions and pro而ses of the Roman commander were supported by Scopas, the chief magistrate of Aetolia at the time, and by Dorimachus, a leading man amongst them, both of whom from their official position spoke with authoritv. They were less reserved, and adopted a more confident tone as’they extolled the power and greatness of Rome. What Assembly was the hope.of weighed most, however, with thebecoming masters of Acarnania.The terms on which they were to become the friends and allies of Rome were reduced to writing and an additional clause was inserted that if it was their will and pleasure the Eleans and Lacedaemonians as well as Attalus, Pleuratus and Scerdilaedus而,aht be included in the treatv. Attalus was king of Perzamum in Asia minor:neuratus, xiniz of the -1-nracians; Scerdilaedus, kink of the lllvnans. The Aetolians were at once· to commence war with Philip on land, and the Roman general would assist them with not less than twenty-five quinqueremes. as he The territories, buildings and walls of all the cities as farCorcyra were to become the property of the Aetolians, all tother booty was to go to the Romans, who were also toresponsible for Acarnania passing under the dominion of tAetolians. Should the Aetolians make peace with Philip, o be he ne of the conditions was to be that he would abstain f rom hostilities against Rome and her allies and dependencies. Si而larlv. i f J产 the Romans made a treaty with him it was to be provision that he should not be allowed to make war upon the Aetolians and their allies is These were the agreed conditions, and after a lapse of years, copies of the treaty were deposited by the Aetoliai Olympia, and by the Romans in the Capitol, in order thasacred memorials round them而ght be a perpetual wi to their obligation. The reason for this delav was that Aetonan envoys nab been aetainea for a consiaera bie tin Rome. No time, however, was. lost 思commenci琴 hostilities, and Laevinus - attacked Zacynthus. 1 ms is a smau island adjacent to Aetolia, and it contains one city of the same name as the island;this city, with the exception of its citadel, Laevinus captured. He also took two cities belonging to the Acarnanians --Oeniadae and Nasos-and handed them over to the Aetolians. After this he withdrew to Corcyra, feeling satisfied that.Philip had enough on his hands with the war on his frontiers to prevent him from thinking about Italy and the Carthaginians and his· compact with Hannibal.