to induce a single speaxer to come iorwara, it aia not even can forth a single cheer or murmur in that great assembly, where so manv States were represented. X11. -1 pen Aristaenus resumes:一Leaaers or -tne Acnaeans, you are not lacking in counsel any morepower of speech, but each of you is unwiown safety in consulting for the safety ofshould keep silence, were I only a privateI see that either the president ought not toenvoys into the council, or after he had iought not to be dismissed without somethem. But how can I give them any replywith the decree which you make? And sihave been summoned to this council is攀 couraze to express his oDinion.let us examine the speeches which切e envoys cieuverea yesteraay as tnougn they were us regard them not as interest, but as recommade by members of this council, letmaking selfish demands in their ownmending a policy which they believe to" The Romans, the Rhodians and be advantageous to us. Attalus all ask for our alliance and friendship and consider that it is - only just and right that we should give them assistance in the war they are against rnilip. rmip, or hand.r eminds us of the fact that we are his allies and have pledged our oath At one time he demands c 七h Ole it not occurred to any one why those who are not yet our allies ask more from us than those who are our allies ?This is not due to excess of modesty in Philip or to the lack of it in the Romans. It is the fortune of war which imparts confidence to the demands of one side and takes it away from those of the -other. As far as Philip is concerned we see nothing belonging to him except his envoy. As for the Romans, their fleet lies J‘甘产 at Cenchrea. laden with the spoils of the cities of Eub )ea, and 尹J‘ we see the consul with his legions overrunning o cis and Locris which are only separated from us妙a narrow strip of sea. Do you wonder why Philip's envoy, Cleomedon ，spoke in so diffident a tone when he urged us to take up arms against the Romans on behalf of his king? He impressed upon us the sanctitv of the same treatv and oath. but if we were to ask of virtue of the same trea fend us from Nabis and the Lacedaemonians, he would not able to find a force adequate for our protection or even an answer to our request, any more than Philip himself could have done last year. For when he attempted to draw our fighting-men away into Euboea by promising that he would make war on Nabis, and saw that we would not sanction such an employment of our.soldiers or allow ourselves to be involved a war with Rome, he forgot all about the treaty which he now making so much of, and left us to be despoiled and wasted by Nabis and the Lacedaemonians. _“To me, indeed, the arguments that Cleomedon used appeared inconsistent with each other. He made light of a war with Rome and said that the issue would be the same as that of the former war. If so, then why does Philip keep away and ask for our assistance instead of coming in person and protecting us from Nabis and the Romans? ‘Us,' do I say?Why, if this be so, did he allow Eretria and Carystus to be taken? why, all those cities in Thessaly ? why, Locris ，and Phocis?Why is he allowing Elatea to be attacked now? Why did he evacuate the passes lead吨into Epirus and the unsurmountable barriers commanding the river Aous?And when he had abandoned them, why did he march off into the heart of his kingdom?If he deliberately left his allies to the mercies of their can he object to these allies taking measures for their own safety?If his action was dictated by fear he must pardon us for our fears. If he retreated because he was worsted shall we Achaeans, Cleomedon, withstand the arms of Rome when ;you Macedonians could not withstand them?You tell us that the Romans are not in greater strength or empli greater forces in this war than in the last one;are we to .川压0 口七冶n your word for it, rather than look at the actual facts? that occasion they only sent their fleet to help the Aetolians; they did not put a consul in command nor did they employ a consular army. The maritime cities belonging to Philip's allies were in a state of consternation and alarm, but the inland districts were so safe from the arms of Rome that Philip laid waste the land of the Aetolians while they were vainly imploring the Romans for help. Now, however, the Romans have brought the war with Carthage to a close, that war which for s议teen years they have had to endure, whilst it preyed, so )to spe残 on the vitals of Italy, and they have not simply sent a detachment to aid the Aetolians, they have themselves assumed of the war and are attacking Macedonia by land and sea. Their third consul is now conducting operations with the utmost energy. Sulpicius met the king in Macedonia itself, routed him, put him to flight, and ravaged the richest part of his realm, and now, when he was holding t es which form the key of Epirus, secured as he thought positions, his fortified lines and his army, Quinctius has deprived him of his camp, pu rsu ed lhim a as he fled into Thessaly, stormed the cities of his all ies and driven out his garrisons almost within sight of Philip himself. “Suppose there is no truth in what the Athenian delegate has said about the king's brutality and greed and lust, suppose that the crimes committed in Attica against all the gods, supernal and infernal, do not concern us, still less the sufferings of Chios and Ab州o s, which are a long way off.;let us forget our own wounds, the robberies and murders at Messene in the heart of the Peloponnesus, the king's assassination of his host almost at the banquet-table, the deaths of the two Arati of Sicyon, father and son-the king was in the habit of speaking of the hapless old man as though he were his father-the abduction of the son's wife into Macedonia as a victim to Philip's lusts, andallthe other outrages on matrons and maids-let all 比,e se be consigned to oblivion. Let us even imagine that we not to‘do with Philip whose cruelty has struck you dumb a gentle and just-minded monarch who has been the greatestbenefactor to us all. Do you suppose that he would demand of us that we should do what cannot" The Peloponnesus, remember, is纂恶bela.忠蕊益。 the一mainland by the narrow strip of land.called the· Isthmus, open and exposed above all to a naval attack. zoo decked ships and ;o undecked ships with liahter draught. and 30 lsaean cutters should begin to ravage our coast and attack the cities which stand exposed almost on the shore, we should. I suppose. withdraw into the inland cities iust”if we were not caught by the dames of a war within our frontiers which is fastening upon our vitals. When Nabis and the Lacedaemonians are pressing us by land_and the Roman fleet by sea, from what quarter am I to appeal to our alliance with the king and implore the.Macedonians to help us?Shall we protect with our own arms the threatened cities against the Romans?How splendidly we protected Dymae in the last war! The disasters of others afford ample warning to us, let us not seek how we may become a wamina to others. ecause the Romans are for your friendship tarily, take care that you not disdain what you ought 兰e aesirea叩a aone. your nest to. ob钾n._ 1m agi laglne that rney are. entrapped _ln a strange land and by their fears into wishing to lurk under the shadow of your assistance and seek the refuge of an alliance with you in order that they may have the entry of jour harbours and make use of your supplies?The sea is under their control thev visit thev at once bring under their dominion.what they neign to asK for tney can oDtaln Dy Torce. It is because tney wish to spare you that they do not allow you to take a step which would destroy you. “As to the middle course which Cleomedon pointed out as the safest, namely, that you should keep quiet and abstain from hostilities, that is not a middle course, it is no course at all. We have either to accept or reject the proferred alliance with Rome;otherwise we shall win the gratitude of neither side, but like men who wait upon the event。leave our Dolicv at一the mercy ot Yortune, and·what is this but to become a prey of the conqueror?what you ouLrht to have soutzht with the utmost soncituae is now sDontaneously onerea:beware lest you scorn the otter. ratner aiternative is oven to you to-aav. it will not De open aiwavs. i ne oDDortumty . win not ioniz remain. nor win it oaten recur.必or a none time you nave wisnea rather than ventured to free yourselves from Phil币.The men who would win your liberty for you without any risk or effort on your part have crossed the seas with mighty fleets and armies. If you reject their alliance you are hardly in your right senses, but you will be compelled to have them as either friends or enemies."