Thanks were returned to the kings.

Both of them offered to come, with their whole force, into Aetolia.

Ptolemy was excused from that trouble; and Philip's ambassadors were answered, that the senate and people of Rome would consider it as a kindness if he should lend his assistance to the consul, Manius Acilius.

Ambassadors came, likewise from the Carthaginians, and from king Masinissa.

The Carthaginians made an offer of sending a thousand pecks[1] of wheat, and five hundred thousand of barley to the army, and half that quantity to Rome; which they requested the Romans to accept from them as a present.