replace their king." After this no more was said.T7VVTTT IT" t\ 1 .1 1 *.，，1‘LL_、 .，2%,.1又工l.1一上he Roman commander thought It only right that1 1 1 -2 w . 1 P 1 1 1 1 . . 1 the one who has asxea for the conference should begin the conversation, the king considered that the discussion should Lue men wno proposea terms of peace, not by the one who was to accept them. Thereupon the Roman observed that what he had to sav would be ouite simple and straiahtforward;he should merelv state those conditions without which peace would be汕possible. “The king must withdraw his garrisons from all the cities m Greece; the prisoners， andAl 11110 P IW% deserters must be handed back to zne allies ox长ome:those 禅aces in Ill州a which he had seized after peace in Epirus must be restored to Rome he had taken forcible possession of after the death of Ptolemy Philopator must be given.back to Ptolemy, the king of Egypt. These," he said,“are my conditions and those of the people of Rome, but it is right and proper that the demands of our allies should also be heard." The representative of King Attalus demanded the restoration of the ships and prisoners that had been taken in the sea一fight off Chius; and also that the Nicephorium and the temple of Venus which the king had plundered and desolated should be restored to their former condition. The Rhodians demanded the cession of Peraea, a district on the mainland opposite their island and formerly under their sway, and insisted :upon the withdrawal of Philip's garrisons from Iasos, Bargyliae and Euromus, as well as from Sestos and Abydos,on the Hellespont, the restoration of Perinthus to the Byzantines with the re-establishment of their old political relations and the freedom of all the markets and ports in Asia. Phaeheas, as representing the Aetolians, demanded, almost in the same terms as the -Romans, the. evacuation of Greece and the restoration of the cities·which had formerly been under the T to of +1a A satn1i*r%e_ He was followed by a lead吨Aetolian, named Alexander, who was, for an Aetolian, an eloquent speaker. He had long remained silent, he said, not because he thought that the conference would lead to any result, but simply because he did not want to interrupt anv of the,speakers who represented his allies. “Philiv." he continued.“is not straiLyhtforward in discussing terms of peace nor has he shown true courage in the way he has conducted war. In negotiation he is deceitful and tricky, in war he does not encounter his enemy on fair ground or fight a set battle. He keeps out of his adversary's way, plunders and burns his cities. and when vanouished destrovs what should be the prizes of执e victors. The former Icings of Maceaorua aia not behave in this way;they trusted to their battle-line, and spa red the cities as far as possible that their dominions might be all the richer. What sort of policy is that of destroyin the very th运gs which a man is fightin to secure and leav nothing for himself but the mere war?Last year Philip 1 叮.ingaidhisus waste more cities in Thessalv. thou-ah thev belonged to allies.11 than any enemy that "1'hessal: Even from Aetoli 、ns he has taken more cities since he became our ally than he did while he was our enemy. He seized Lysimachia after expelling the Aetolian garrison and ii s commandant;in the same way he completely destroyed Cius, a member of our league. By·similar treachery he is now master of Thebes, Phthiae, Echinus.Larisa and Pharsalus.