If once the clouds which are gathering in the West should advance and spread over Greece and the neighboring lands, there will be danger indeed that all our truces and wars, all the child's play with which we now amuse ourselves, will be suddenly cut short. We may then pray in vain to the Gods for the power of making war and peace with one another, and indeed of dealing independently with any of the questions which may arise among us." The speaker was right, and Philip took his advice. But when he became embroiled with Rome, it was the speaker's own countrymen, the Ætolians, who, by attacking Macedon in the rear, contributed most to the dreaded sequel: that never after 212 B.C. did the Greeks have an opportunity of dealing independently with any of the questions which arose among them. At the time of the Social War Macedon missed its last chance of establishing a single state in European Hellas. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Droysen, J.G. _Geschichte des Hellenismus_,^2 III: _Geschichte der Epigonen_ (1877). 2. Freeman, E. _History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy_^2 (1893). Ed. by J.B. Bury. 3. Niese, B. _Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten._ Especially vol. II (1899). 4. Beloch, J. _Griechische Geschichte_, III (1904). 5. Kärst, J. _Geschichte des hellenistischen Zeitalters_, II, I (1909). 6. Ferguson, W.S. _Hellenistic Athens_ (1911). 7. Pozzi, Emilio. _Le Battaglie di Cos e di Andro e la Politica marittima di Antigono Gonata._ In _Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino_: serie II, tom. LXIII (1912). 8. Tarn, W.W. _Antigonus Gonatas_ (1913). FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 116: Tarn, W.W., _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, XXIX (1909), pp. 269 _f._; Beloch, _Griechische Geschichte_, III, 1, pp. 386 _f._; _Hellenistic Athens_, p. 190.] [Footnote 117: Mahaffy, _The Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire_ (1905), p. 32.] [Footnote 118: Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, _Staat und Gesellschaft der Griechen: D. Die makedonischen Königreiche_, pp. 139 _ff._] [Footnote 119: For their revival of the Hellenic league, in which Macedon formed simply one unit, see Klotzsch, _Epirotische Geschichte_, p. 130, n. 1, and _Hellenistic Athens_, pp. 121 _f._] [Footnote 120: For the date see Mayer, _Philologus_, LXXI (1912), p. 227.] [Footnote 121: _Hellenistic Athens_, p. 148.] [Footnote 122: Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, _Antigonos von Karystos_, p. 218; Kärst, _Geschichte des hellenistischen Zeitalters_, II, 1, pp. 121, 125. Tarn (_Antigonus Gonatas_, pp. 276 _ff._) bases Antigonus's system of tyrants on expediency, not on philosophy.] [Footnote 123: For the peace between Egypt and Macedon made in 261 B.C. see _Inscriptiones Græcæ_, XI, 2, 114.]