12. =Macedonicum=: sc. _bellum_. CH. 2. 13. =Philippum=: Philip V, king of Macedonia, began to reign 220 B.C., was defeated by Flamininus at Cynoscephalae 197 B.C., and died 179 B.C. _The Story of the Romans_, p. 137; Creighton, p. 47. 15. =rem prōsperē gessit=: in 196 B.C., at the meeting of the Isthmian games, Flamininus caused a herald to proclaim, “that the senate and the people of Rome, and their commander, Titus Quinctius, having subdued Philip and the Macedonians, now restored the Corinthians, Phocians, Locrians, Euboeans, Thessalians, Achaeans, etc., to their freedom and independence, and to the enjoyment of their own laws.” 19. =quaterna mīlia=: sc. _lībrārum_; note the force of the distributive. =pondō=: cf. _pondō_, Bk. III, 21. PAGE 37. 2. =Nabidem=: Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon, had seized the city of Argos. =quibus voluit condiciōnibus= ＝ _quibus voluit eīs condiciōnibus_. =in fidem accēpit=: cf. _in fidem acceptae_, Bk. II, 19. This is a mild way of saying that he made the king a subject of Rome. CH. 3. 6. =Syriacum=: sc. _bellum_. Creighton, p. 48. 7. =Antiochum=: the most illustrious of the family of the Seleucidae, kings of Syria, was Antiochus, surnamed the Great. After having conquered Caelo-Syria and Palestine, he was urged by Hannibal, who had taken refuge at his court, to make war on the Romans. He invaded Greece, but was defeated by L. Scipio at Thermopylae in 191 B.C., and again at Mt. Sipylus in Magnesia in 190 B.C., when he was compelled to sue for peace. 12. =fuisset=: cf. _quia … fēcissent_, Bk. II, 11. CH. 4. 14. =L. Cornēliō Scīpiōne=: cf. Bk. III, 16. =Scīpiō Āfricānus=: although Scipio Africanus was the _legatus_ of his brother, yet he practically acted as commander, as his brother was a man of no ability. 17. =nāvālī proeliō=: this battle, fought at the mouth of the Eurymedon, off Aspendus in Pamphylia, “was the first naval battle and the last battle fought by Hannibal against the Romans.” 18. =apud Māgnēsiam=: “with the day of Magnesia Asia was erased from the list of great states; and never perhaps did a great power fall so rapidly, so thoroughly, and so ignominiously as the kingdom of the Seleucidae under this Antiochus the Great.” Mommsen. 20. =Eumenēs=: Antiochus had offered one of his daughters in marriage to Eumenes, the king of Pergamus, on condition that he assist him against the Romans. 22. =ex parte rēgis=: ‘on the side of the king.’ 24. =data est=: sc. _pāx_. 25. =recēderet=: cf. _īnferret_, Ch. 2. PAGE 38. 1. =concitātōrem bellī=: ‘who had aroused the war’; often it is best to translate nouns of Agency by a clause. 6. =et ipse=: cf. _et ipse_, Bk. I, 8. =Asiāgenis=: the more usual title is _Asiāticus_. CH. 5. 12. =per T. Quīntium Flāminīnum=: cf. _per fīliōs_, Bk. I, 6. 13. =trādendus esset=: the bitterness with which the Romans hunted down Hannibal was unworthy of such a man and such a nation.