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As to Lemnos and Delos they had, according to the proverb, got the wolf by the ears:The possession of these places a misfortune to Athens. See 32, 17. for they suffered much ill fortune from their quarrels with the Delians; and from the territory of Haliartus they reaped shame rather than profit. . . .
22
At this time Theaetetus being admitted into the Senate spoke on the subject of the alliance. The Senate, however, postponed the consideration of the proposal, and in the meantime Theaetetus died in the course of nature, for he was more than eighty years old. Caunus and Stratoniceia in Caria. But on the arrival in Rome of exiles from Caunus and Stratoniceia, and their admission to the Senate, a decree was passed ordering the Rhodians to withdraw their garrisons from Caunus and Stratoniceia. And the embassy of Philophron and Astymedes having received this answer sailed with all speed home, alarmed lest the Rhodians should disregard the order for withdrawing the garrisons, and so give a fresh ground for complaints. . . .
23
In the Peloponnese, when the ambassadors arrived and announced the answers from The effect of the message from the Romans in the Achaean league. Supra ch. 13. Rome, there was no longer mere clamour, but downright rage and hatred against Callicrates and his party. . . .
