He, there- fore, collected troops in Greece, especially in Achaia ; and with these he succeeded in driving the pseudo-Philip out of Thessaly, into which country he had already penetrated.

Soon afterwards the praetor Publius Juventius Thalna arrived with a Roman legion 2 and entered Macedonia.

But the despised opponent now showed himself not quite unworthy of the honour to which he had boldly aspired.

He defeated the Romans in a pitched battle, killing the prsetor and a great part of the army.

The Macedonian revolt was assuming the proportions of a war just at a time when Carthage was beginning to defend herself desperately in order to preserve her existence as a state, and when Roman arms in Spain were baffled by an un- expected vigour on the part of the native races.