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The History of Rome, Book III

CHAPTER IX
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Cephallenia opposed this treaty on its own account, and only submitted when Marcus Fulvius landed on the island.

In fact, the inhabitants of Same, who feared that they would be dispossessed from their well-situated town by a Roman colony, revolted after their first submission and sustained a four months' siege; the town, however, was finally taken and the whole inhabitants were sold into slavery.
Macedonia In this case also Rome adhered to the principle of confining herself to Italy and the Italian islands.

She took no portion of the spoil for herself, except the two islands of Cephallenia and Zacynthus, which formed a desirable supplement to the possession of Corcyra and other naval stations in the Adriatic.

The rest of the territorial gain went to the allies of Rome.

But the two most important of these, Philip and the Achaeans, were by no means content with the share of the spoil granted to them.


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