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defiance of this Clause, began to augment his Fleet; but the Ro-man Senate ordered his supernumerary Vessels to be burnt.

Hannibal apprehending least; Antiochus , after his Defeat, shouldbe obliged to deliver him up to the Romans , went into the Ser-vice of Prufias, King of a Bithynia y and commanded his Fleet a-gainst Eumenes, King of Pergamos b , an Ally of the Romans. Be-ing fruitful in Stratagems, he threw into the Enemy’s Ships ear-then Bottles filled with Serpents, which put the Crew in Disorder,and made them fly. This was the fame Prujias y who join’d withthe Rhodians in a War against the Byzantines y and stop’d themfrom levying their Toll upon the Trade into th eEuxine Sea.

The Ætolians were the next that by their Insolence drew theArms of the Romans against them. The Consul Fuhius took theirCapital City Ambracia , and reduced them to beg Peace, whichthey obtain’d by the Intercession of the Athenians and Rhodians.The Ijlrians who had join’d with them were Fellow-Susserers.After this the Romans were Masters of all the Istes from the Coastof Epirus c to the Cape of Malleum A .

Nabis y who had possessed himself of the Coast near to Sparta , andthere pyrated outrageously upon all the Peloponefian Trade, wasthe next that felt the Power of the Roman Arms. The Consul at-tacks him with a Fleet of forty fail, eighteen close Gallies ofRhodes, and ten others of King Eumenes , obliged him to deliverup his Fleet, and restore the Ships he had taken to the Proprietors,reserving only to himself two Brigantines. Notwithstandingwhich he rigged out another small Fleet, and the Ackæans ingagedhim with theirs, not waiting for that of the Romans. Philopœmen,a great Captain at land, but a bad Admiral, took the Commandupon him, and was beaten by Nabis. He made afterwards asTruce with the People of Rome, but before it expired he was kill’dby the Ætolians. After which Sparta entered into the Alliance ofthe Achœans.

The

' a a Province of Nafolia I c Epirus lies between Macedonia and the

l ’ In the Lesser Mytia. 'There was a famous I Ionian .Sea; it is now coiled Canina.

Library at Pcrgamos. 1 d Now called Cabo Malio in the Mores.

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