A full council assembled to hear what he had to sav. The purport of his speech was as follows:“Many embassies have passed to and fro on the question of peace, and have been fruitless;I entertain strong hopes of gaining it from the very fact that those negotiators gained nothing. For the dill in former discussions was the position of Smyrna, Lamp Alexandra Troas and the European city of Lysimachia. Of king, so e.He is these Lysimachia has already been evacuated by thethat you cannot say that he holds anything in Europprepared to give up those which are in Asia, and anyhis dominions which the Romans wish to claim on th others in e ground that they are on the side of Rome. He is also prepared to pay half the cost of the war." These were the proposed conditions of peace一In the rest of his speech he advised the council to remember the uncertainty of human affairs, to make a moderate use of their own good fortune, and not treat the misfortunes of others oppressively. Let them limit their dominion to Euro even that was an immense empire; was easier to extend it single acquisitions than to hold it together in its entirety. Pe，妙If，lit however, they wanted to annex some part of Asia, provided was defined by clearly ascertained boundaries, the 址ng would for the sake of peace and concord, allow his own sense of moderation and equity to give way before the Roman greed for territory. These arguments in favour of peace, which the speaker thought so convincing, the Romans_regarded as so much trifling一They considered it only lust that the kinL7, who was responsible for 口.r、.尹产几 starting the war, should bear the whole cost of it, and that his garrisons should be withdrawn, not only from Ionia and Aeolis, but from all the cities in Asia, 17 which should be as free as all the liberated cities in Greece, and this could only be effected if Antloclhus surrendered all his Asiatic possessions west of the Taurus range.