Peace concluded with the Aetolians.一The consul left Ambracia for the interior of Aetolia and fixe过his camp at Amphilochian Argos, twenty-two miles distant from Ambracia. Here the Aetolian delegates at last arrived, the consul meantime wondering what had delayed them. On their informing him that the Aetolian Council accepted the conditions of peace, he told them to go to Rome to appear before the senate;the Rhodians and Athenians were also allowed to go to plead for them;and the consul also allowed his brother, C. Valerius, to accompany them. After their departure he crossed over to Cephallania. In Rome the delegates found the ears and minds of the leading men preoccupied by the accusations which Philip had brought against them. Through his representatives, in his despatches he had asserted that Dolopia, Amphilochia and Athamania had been wrested from him, and his garrisons and even his son Perseus had been expelled from Am沙ilochia. The senate。 consequently refused to. listen to them. The脚dians and Athenians。however. o otaxnea a nearing. 1 ne Athenian spokesman, Leon the son of Hicesias, is said to have moved them by_ his eloquence. Making use.of a common simile he compared the people ot Aetolia to a calm sea which has become agitated by the winds.“As long as they were faithful to Rome," he said.“their peace-lovina- temperament kept them 产二马沪J‘J‘ auiet. but when Thoas and Dicaearchus sent a blast from Asia and Menestas and Damocritas from Europe, then that stoma arose which dashed them against Antiochus as against a rock."