The prosecutors demanded a fine of ioo,ooo ases. The discussion which ensued extended over two sittings of the Assembly;at the third, the defendant had already withdrawn from his candidature, and as the people refused to vote on the fine the tribunes abandoned all further proceedings. T. Quinctius Flamininus and M. Claudius Marcellus were elected censors. L. Aemilius Regillus, who had inflicted the.decisive defeat on Antiochus' naval commander, was received about this time by the senate in the temple of Apollo outside the City. After hearing his statement of what he had done, with what large hostile fleets he had engaged and how many of their ships he had either sunk or captured, the senate unanimously accorded him a naval triumph. He celebrated his triumph on February ist, and in the procession were carried 49 golden crowns, 34,2oo Attic tetrachmas and 132,300“cistophori "--a far less amount of specie than might have been expected in a triumph over king. This was followed by public thanksgivings ordered 七bb LeV"y甘 the senate for the successful conduct of affairs in Spain L. Aemilius. Not Ions afterwards L. Sc1Dio arrived in the Citv. Not to be outdone by his brother Africanus in the matter of surnames, he wanted to be called“Asiaticus." 30 He enlarged upon his services in the senate and also before the Assembly. Some people alleged that the war had loomed larger in the popular view than its real difficulty warranted;it had been brought to a close in one memorable. battle and the glory of that victory had been shorn of its splendour at Thermopylae. But rightly judged the battle at Thermopylae was won over the Aetolians much more than over the king, for with what proportion of his total strength did he fight there?In the battle in Asia the whole power of Asia was in the field, the massed forces were drawn from every nation to the furthest limits of the East.