Nevertheless, they came to a resolution, to renounce the friendship of the Romans, and return to the alliance with Philip.
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These decrees were passed at Leucas, the capital of Acarnania, the place where all the states usually met in council.

As soon, therefore, as the news of this sudden change reached the lieutenant-general Flamininus, in Corcyra, he instantly set sail with the fleet for Leucas; and coming to an anchor at a place called Heraeus, advanced thence towards the walls with every kind of machine used in the attacking of cities; supposing that the first appearance of danger might bend the minds of the inhabitants to submission.

But seeing no prospect of effecting any thing, except by force, he began to erect towers and sheds, and to bring up the battering-rams to the walls.

The whole of Acarnania, being situated between Aetolia and Epirus, faces towards the west and the Sicilian sea.