For it will not be so difficult for the Aetolians to find another praetor, as for the Macedonians to find another king in my place."-- Silence then ensued.
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The Roman expected that he who solicited the conference should open it; and the king thought that he who was to prescribe, not he who received, terms of peace, ought to begin the conference.

At length the Roman said, that "his discourse should be very simple; for he would only mention those articles, without which there could be no conditions of peace.

These were, that the king should withdraw his garrisons from all the cities of Greece.

That he should deliver up to the allies of the Roman people the prisoners and deserters; should restore to the Romans those places in Illyricum of which he had possessed himself by force, since the peace concluded in Epirus; and to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, the cities which he had seized since the death of Ptolemy Philopater." These were the terms which he required, on behalf of himself and the Roman people: but it was proper that the demands of the allies, also, should be heard.