But they more easily resolved on this measure, than devised any safe or certain method of accomplishing it.
10.

Forty days were passed in view of the enemy, without making any kind of effort.

Hence Philip conceived hopes of bringing about a treaty of peace, through the mediation of the people of Epirus; and a council, which was held for the purpose, having appointed Pausanias, the praetor, and Alexander, the master of the horse, as negotiators, they brought the consul and the king to a conference, on the banks of the river Aous, where the channel was narrowest.

The sum of the consul's demands was, that the king should withdraw his troops from the territories of the several states; that, to those whose lands and cities he had plundered, he should restore such of their effects as could be found; and that the value of the rest should be estimated by a fair arbitration.

Philip answered, that "the cases of the several states differed widely from each other.