These sentiments, such as a father might have uttered, called forth tears of joy from all who heard them, and for some time the voice of the speaker was drowned amidst the expressions of annroval and the exhortations which the audience addressed to each other to let these words sink into their hearts and minds as though they were the words of an oracle. At last, when silence was restored, he asked them to find out any Roman citizens who were living as slaves amongst them and send them within two months' time,to him in Thessaly. They would not, he felt sure, think it right or honourable for their liberators to be in the position of slaves in the land which they had liberated. They all exclaimed that among the other things for which they were grateful they thanked him especially for reminding them of so sacred and imperative a duty. There was an immense number who had been made prisoners in the Punic War, and as they were not ransomed by their countrymen Hannibal sold them as slaves. That they were very numerous is evident from what Polybius says. He asserts that this. undertaking cost the Achaeans i oo talents, as they fixed the price to be- paid to the owners at 5oo denarii a head. On this reckoning Achaia must have held I Zoo of them;you can estimate proportionally what was·the probable number throughout Greece. The assembly was still sitting when, on looking round, they saw the troops co而ng from Acrocorinthus;they marched straight through to the gate and left the city. The general followed them amidst universal applause and shouts of“Saviour and Liberator." Then taking his final leave of them he returned to Elatia by the same route by which he had come. From there he despatched Appius Claudius with the whole of his forces, they were to march through Thessaly and Epirus to Oricum and wait for him there, as he intended to sail from there with his army to Italy. His brother Lucius who was in command of the fleet. received written instructions to collect ships from 了J‘ every part of the Greek coast