This led Philip to hope that he might arrange a p( through the mediation of the Epirotes. A national council held at which Pausamas, their captain-general, anti Alexan ,the一commander ,of their cavalry, were chosen to undert the task, and they arranged a conference between the king the consul at a point where the Aous contracts to its narrov width. The sum and substance of the consul's demands， that the king should withdraw his garrisons from the various States, that he劝ould restore to those of them whose cities and fields he had plundered all that they could recover, and make compensation for the rest upon a fair valuation一 In reply Philip asserted that the cities Were differently circumstanced. Those which he had himself taken he would‘ liberate. but as to those which had been bequeathed to him his predecessors he would not give up what he had as his lawful possession. If any of the States with whom he had been at war made complaint of the losses they had sustained he would·submit the question to arbitration before any neutral nation whom they chose. To this the consul replied that in this matter at all events there was no need whatever for any arbitration, for who could fail to see that the responsibility for all wrongs lay with the aggressor, and in every case Philip had been the aggressor without having received any provocation ? The discussion then turned upon the question, which communities were to be liberated. The consul mentioned the Thessalians to begin with.4 Philip was so furious at this suggestion that he exclaimed,“What heavier condition, T. Quinct us, could you impose upon a defeated 'foe?”and with these words hastily left the conference. It was with difficulty that the two armies were prevented from fighting with missiles, separated” they were by the breadth of the river. The next day the patrols on either side engaged in numerous‘ skirmishes over the broad plain between the camps. Then the king's troops retired and the Romans in their eagerness for battle followed them on to confined and broken ground. They had the advantage in their order and discipline and in the nature of their armour which afforded protection to the whole the Macedonians were helped by the strength of thei r n. which enabled catapults and ballistae to be posted on almost ,every rock as though on a city wall.on both sides had been wounded and some had黑manyfallen as in a regular battle, night put an end to the fighting.