tions to fit out the rest of. the fleet and put to sea, and a number of., , .} . . It scouting vessels were sent to patrol the waters round the island: XLIL C. Livius was in command of the Roman fleet. H proceeded with fifty decked ships to Neapolis, where the ope vessels which the cities on that coast were bound by treaty f furnish had received orders to assemble. From there he steered for Sicily and sailed through the strait past Messana. When re had picked up the six vessels which had been sent by Carthage and the ships which Regium. and Locris and the other cities under the same treaty obligation had contributed he pertormed the lustration of the fleet 10 and put out to sea. On reaching Corcyra, which was the first Greek city he came to, he made inquiries as to the state of the war-for peace did not prevail throughout Greece--and the whereabouts of the Roman fleet. When he learnt that the consul and the king were encampedfleet was 1攫the Pass of Thermopylae, and thatin the Piraeus, he felt that for ever忠Romanason he ought to lose noAs Same and Za忠e and at once set sail for the Peloponnese.hus had taken the side of the Aetolians he devastated those islands and then shaped his course to Malea,and as the weather was favourable he reached the Piraeus in a few days and here he found the fleet. Whilst off Scyllaeum he was joined by Eumenes with three ships. Eumenes had remained for some time at Aegina, unable to make up his mind what to do, whether to return home and defend his kingdom, as he was constantly being told that Antiochus was concentrating naval and militarv forces at Ephesus.or whether to remain in close ships in the Piraeus, and then left for Rome. Livius sailed to Delos with eighty-one decked vessels and many smaller, some undecked and beaked, others without beaks, to be used as scouts.