![]() Aristaenus, the chief magistrate of the Achaeans, was the next to speak, and he spoke with all the more weight because he gave the Boeotians the same advice which he had given to the Achaeans. Whilst they were removing the king, who had lost the use of one side, the proceedings were suspended. But he was too old and infirm to stand the strain of public speaking, and suddenly became silent and fell down. He began by recounting the services which he had rendered to Greece as a whole and in particular to the Boeotians. They concealed their vexation, since to have exhibited it would have been useless and dangerous.Īttalus was the first to speak in the council. It was quite clear that the Council of Boeotia which was summoned for the next day would have no chance of unfettered deliberation. Then they were utterly dismayed, as they believed that the city had been betrayed and captured through the treachery of Antiphilus. The townsfolk pushing along in a mass in front of the lictor did not see the armed column which had hurried up until they reached the general's quarters. As he came nearer to the city he slackened his pace, as though he were saluting the crowds who had come out to meet him, but really to allow the hastati to catch him up. ![]() They saw few arms and few soldiers with them, the hastati, who were following a mile behind, were hidden by the windings of the road and the undulating nature of the terrain. About half-way he was met by Antiphilus, the captain-general of the Boeotians the population of the city were on the walls, anxiously watching the approach of the Roman general and the king. The hastati of the legion, numbering 2000 men, were ordered to follow him at a distance of one mile. ![]() The following day, escorted by a single maniple and accompanied by Attalus and the various deputations who had flocked to him from all quarters, he proceeded to the city. At the commencement of spring Quinctius, anxious to make the Boeotians, who were uncertain which side to take, into a Roman dependency, summoned Attalus to Elatia, and marching through Phocis fixed his camp at a point five miles from Thebes, the Boeotian capital. The above-described events took place in the winter.
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