1 These conditions, of course, could be no longer the same as those which had been proposed when the legions were still on their march to the Hellespont.

Scipio asked for the payment of the whole of the war expenses, and for the surrender of all countries in Asia Minor this side the Taurus range.

Such were the terms of peace which Heraclides brought Conditions back to Sardes.

The king was of opinion that worse rejected by terms could not be accepted even in case of a total Anfcloclms - defeat, and therefore resolved to try once more the fortune of war.

Having neglected to oppose the Romans in Thrace, and having allowed them to pass the Hellespont without opposition, and to concentrate their forces in Asia Minor, where the kingdom of Pergamuin was a basis for their further operations, he ought to have tried to draw them into the interior of the country, to tire them out with long marches, and to expose them to the difficulties of a prolonged campaign in a country drained of its resources.