He then ordered the representatives of the States to be called in. Eumenes, who quite expected that whatever strength Antiochus lost would prove an accession to his own dominions, had prepared the representatives beforehand and told them what to say. Several were brought in, and as they each stated their grievances and put forward their demands quite regardless as to whether these were fair or nor, they changed the discussion into a heated altercation. Unable either to make or to obtain any concessions, the commissioners returned to Rome leaving everything as unsettled as when they came. Antiochus holds a council of war.-On their departure the king held a council of war. Here each speaker tried to outdo the rest in violence of language, for the more bitter he showed himself against the Romans the better his chance of winning the king's favour. One of them denounced the Roman demands as arrogant:“They tried to impose on Antiochus, the greatest monarch in Asia, as though he were the defeated Nabis, and yet even Nabis theyallowed to remain as sovereign over his own country and to retain Lacedaemon, whilst they consider it an offence if Smyrna and Lampsacus are under the sway of Antiochus." Others ed that those cities were for so insignificant grounds of war, but unjust- demands always beganwith small matters, unless indeed they were to suppose thatwhen the Persians demanded earth and water from the Lacedaemonians they were actually in need of a clod of earth and a draught of water.t A similar attempt was now being made by theRomans in respect of these two cities, and as soon as others saw that_ these had shaken off， the yoke they too， would go over to.! 7 ! ! !"t r "r ,", the，people who posed as 11 Aerators. .r,ven it liberty. were not11 e 9* 11 11 0. ! 1 , in itseir preferaoie to servitude, everyone, whatever his.present condition may De, rends the prospect of change more attractive.