+9.+ About the same time ambassadors came to Rome from king Eumenes, informing the Senate of the encroachment of Philip upon the cities in Thrace. There came also the exiles of the Maronitae denouncing Philip, and charging him with being the cause of their expulsion. These were followed by Athamanians, Perrhaebians, and Thessalians, demanding the restoration of their cities which Philip had taken from them during the war with Antiochus. Ambassadors also came from Philip to make answer to all accusers. After repeated debates between all these envoys and the ambassadors of Philip, the Senate decided to appoint a commission at once, to investigate the actions of Philip, and to protect all who chose to state their views and their complaints of the king to his face. The legates thus appointed were Quintus Caecilius, Marcus Baebius, and Tiberius Claudius.[121]... [Sidenote: Aenus in Thrace.] There was again a war of parties among the Aenii, one side inclining to Eumenes, the other to Macedonia.... _The result of these embassies was the Congress of Tempe, at which no definite settlement was made. Livy, 39, 25-28._ A MEETING OF THE ACHAEAN LEAGUE PARLIAMENT [Sidenote: Philopoemen Achaean Strategus for two years running, from May B.C. 189 to May B.C. 187.] +10.+ I have already stated that in the Peloponnese, while Philopoemen was still Strategus, the Achaean league sent an embassy to Rome on the subject of Sparta, and another to king Ptolemy to renew their ancient alliance. [Sidenote: Aristaenus. May, B.C. 187 to May, B.C. 186.] [Sidenote: Seleucus Philopator succeeded his father Antiochus the Great, B.C. 187.] [Sidenote: Business of the Achaean assembly.] [Sidenote: Letter from the Senate on the subject of Philopoemen’s actions at Sparta.] Immediately after Philopoemen had been succeeded by Aristaenus as Strategus, the ambassadors of king Ptolemy arrived, while the league meeting was assembled at Megalopolis. King Eumenes also had despatched an embassy offering to give the Achaeans one hundred and twenty talents, on condition that it was invested and the interest used to pay the council of the league at the time of the federal assemblies. Ambassadors came also from king Seleucus, to renew his friendship with them, and offering a present of a fleet of ten ships of war. But when the assembly got to business, the first to come forward to speak was Nicodemus of Elis, who recounted to the Achaeans what he and his colleagues had said in the Roman Senate about Sparta, and read the answer of the Senate; which was to the effect that the Senate disapproved of the destruction of the walls, and of the execution of the men put to death at Compasium, but that it did not rescind any arrangement made. No one saying a word for or against this, the subject was allowed to pass. [Sidenote: The offer of Eumenes.]