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In the consulship of Marcus Fulvius1 Nobilior and Gnaeus Manlius Volso, Valerius Antias records that a rumour was generally circulated in Rome and taken as almost certain that, for the
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purpose of recovering the young Scipio, the consul Lucius Scipio
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and with him Publius Africanus had been invited to a conference with the king and had been arrested, and that after the capture of their generals the army had been led against the Roman camp, that this had been captured and all the Roman forces destroyed;
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that for this reason the Aetolians had taken heart and refused to obey orders and their chiefs had gone to Macedonia and the Dardanians and to Thrace to secure auxiliaries for hire and that
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Aulus Terentius and Marcus Claudius Lepidus had been sent to bring this report by Aulus Cornelius the propraetor in Aetolia.
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It added a further item to the story that the Aetolian ambassadors among other things were also asked in the senate, from what sources they had learned that the Roman commanders in Asia had been taken prisoners by King Antiochus and the army wiped out; that the Aetolians replied that they had been informed by their ambassadors who had been with the consul.
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Because I have no other authority for this story the rumour, in my judgment, should not have been given credence nor yet dismissed as without foundation.2
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