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History of Rome, Vol III

BOOK XXXIII
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Meanwhile the walls were scaled in many places; and the besiegers, climbing over the rubbish, entered the town through the breaches.

And now the lieutenant-general himself surrounded the combatants with a powerful force.

Being thus hemmed in, many were slain, the rest laid down their arms and surrendered to the conqueror.
In a few days after, on hearing of the battle at Cynoscephalae, all the states of Acarnania made their submission to the lieutenant-general.
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About this time, fortune, depressing the same party in every quarter at once, the Rhodians, in order to recover from Phillip the tract on the continent called Peraea, which had been in possession of their ancestors, sent thither their praetor, Pausistratus, with eight hundred Achaean foot, and about one thousand nine hundred men, made up of auxiliaries of various nations.

These were Gauls, Nisuetans, Pisuetans, Tamians Areans from Africa, and Laodiceans from Asia.


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