Attalus then opened a discussion on the question of Argos, which he contended had been treacherously betrayed 妙Philocles and was now forcibly retained by Nabis. Nabis replied that he had been invited by the Argives to go to their defence. Attalus insisted upon a meeting of the Argive Assembly be吨summoned in order that the truth might be ascertained. The tyrant raised Zo objection to this, but when the king declared that the troops ougbt to be withdrawn from the city and the Assembly left at liberty, without any Lacedaemonian being Qresent. to state what the Argives reallv wanted. Nabis
吸J二产，曰声口了 refused to withdraw his men. The discussion led to no result. A force of 6oo Cretans was furnished妙the tyrant to the Romans, and an armistice for four months arranged between Nicostratus the Achaean president and the tyran t of the Lacedaemonians, after which the conference broke up.
From there Quinctius proceeded to Corinth and marched up to the gate with the Cretan cohort in order that Philocles, the commandant, might see that Nabis had broken with Philip. Philocles had an interview with the Roman general who Dressed him to change sides at once and surrender the citv. and in his
sing reply he gave the impression of postponing rather than refucompliance. From Corinth Quinctius went on to Anticyrasent his brother to learn the attitude of the Acarnanians. and
From Argos Attalus proceeded to Sicyon, and this city paid without some token o f his generosity. He had secured for them at considerable cost some land consecrated to ADollo, and now he made them a才 ft of ten talents of silver and a thousand medimni of corn. He then returned to his ships at Cenchreae.
Nabis, too, went back to Lacedaemon, after leaving a strong garrison at Argos. He had despoiled the men and now he sent his wife there to despoil the women. She invited the ladies of rank to her house, sometimes alone, sometimes in 4amily Darties. and in this way succeeded by blandishments and threats in getting from them not only their gold but even their wardrobes and all their finery.
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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