. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . the first meeting of the centuries the motion for war wasrejected by a large majority of votes, and it was only on theurgent expostulation of the consul Sulpicius that the peoplewere induced to alter their decision. Either, said Sulpicius,they must attack Philip in his own country or they would haveto face the horrors of a second invasion of Italy. This argumentturned the scale, and war was declared (200 ). In their conduct of the Second and Third Macedonian Warsthe Romans showe
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . the first meeting of the centuries the motion for war wasrejected by a large majority of votes, and it was only on theurgent expostulation of the consul Sulpicius that the peoplewere induced to alter their decision. Either, said Sulpicius,they must attack Philip in his own country or they would haveto face the horrors of a second invasion of Italy. This argumentturned the scale, and war was declared (200 ). In their conduct of the Second and Third Macedonian Warsthe Romans showed that talent for blundering into successwhich is said to be characteristic of our own the first two or three years little is effected, one incompetentcommander succeeding to another, until at last the right manis found, who ends the contest by a single blow. At thebeginning of the war the Romans numbered among theirallies the Illyrian prince Pleuratus, Amynander, king of theAthamanians, and the Dardanians, while on the sea theywere supported by Rhodes, Pergamum, Byzantium, and other 283. REPUBLICAN ROME Greek commercial cities. The Aetolians for the presentremained neutral, and all the wiles of Philip could not securethe adhesion of the Achaean lycague. At the outset of thewar Athens was relieved from siege by the allied fleet, andin the following year the consul Sulpicius gained some advan-tage over Philip and threatened the western bor-ders of Macedon. It was then that the Mace-donian troops observed for the first time theterrible effect of the Roman sword, a heavy,two-edged blade, which lopped off limbs at asingle stroke and dealt the most appalling advantage gained by Sulpicius, indecisiveas it was, sufficed to induce the Aetolians todeclare for Rome, and in concert with Amynanderthey overran Thessaly and threatened were, indeed, driven back by Philip withgreat loss, and only saved from destruction byRoman Sword the help of Amynande
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