these plans had been carried out Lysias straightway despatched envoys to Rome to offer a defence for what had been done.  Demetrius the son of Seleucus son of Antiochus, who was staying in Rome as a hostage at the time of his father’s death and had been deprived of the kingdom by his uncle Antiochus, asked for his ancestral domain when he learned of the death of Antiochus, but the Romans would neither help him to get it nor permit him to set out from Rome.  In spite of his dissatisfaction he remained quiet.  But when the affair of Lysias came up, he no longer delayed but escaped by flight and sent a message to the senate from Lycia saying that his objective was not his cousin Antiochus (the children of brothers were so termed by the ancients) but Lysias, and his purpose was to avenge Octavius.  Hastening to Tripolis in Syria he won over this town also, pretending that he had been sent out by the Romans to take charge of the kingdom.  No one at this time had any idea of his secret flight, and so after conquering Apamea and gathering a body of troops he marched to Antioch.  There he destroyed Lysias and the boy, who came to meet him in the guise of friends (through fear of the Romans they had offered no opposition), [Sidenote:  B.C. 162 (a.u. 592)] and he recovered the kingdom, whereupon he forwarded to Rome a crown and the assassins of Octavius.  The citizens, being enraged at him, would accept neither the one nor the other.

[Footnote 39:  This name is erroneously written by Zonaras for Gnaeus.  (Cp.  Polybius 28, 3, 2; 31, 12 (also 13, 19, and 20); 32, 4 to 7.)]

Next the Romans made a campaign against the Dalmatians.  This race consists of Illyrians who dwell along the Ionian Gulf, some of whom the Greeks used to call Taulantii, and part of them are close to Dyrrachium.  The cause of the war was that they had been abusing some of their neighbors who were in a league of friendship with the Romans, and when the Romans joined an embassy in their behalf the Dalmatians returned an answer that was not respectful, and even arrested and killed the envoys of the other nations. [Sidenote:  B.C. 155 (a.u. 599)] Scipio Nasica subdued this race in a campaign against them.  He captured their towns and several times sold the captives.—­Other events, too, took place in those days,—­not, however, of a kind to deserve mention or historical record.

(BOOK 21, BOISSEVAIN.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 153 (a.u. 601)] IX, 26.—­The rattling of dice in the box of Circumstance now announced the final cast in the struggle with Carthage,—­the third of the series.  The Carthaginians could not endure their subordinate position, but contrary to the treaty were setting their fleet in readiness and making alliances as measures of preparation for war with the Nomads:  [Sidenote:  B.C. 152 (a.u. 602)] and the Romans, having settled other questions to their own satisfaction, did not remain at rest, but by the mouth of Scipio Nasica their commissioner