Kitap 3
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Here we have the cause and the pretext of the Persian war. Alexander’s expedition into Asia was the first action in it.
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So too of the war of Antiochus with Rome. The cause and of the war with Antiochus. was evidently the exasperation of the Aetolians, who, thinking that they had been slighted in a number of instances at the end of the war with Philip, not only called in the aid of Antiochus, but resolved to go to every extremity in satisfying the anger which the events of that time had aroused in them. This was the cause. As for the pretext, it was the liberation of Greece, which they went from city to city with Antiochus proclaiming, without regard to reason or truth; while the first act in the war was the descent of Antiochus upon Demetrias.
