The Achaeans Agree to Help the Ptolemies
The people were alarmed lest they should be thoughtPolybius advocates the cause of the Ptolemies. |
Callicrates defeats the motion, but at a smaller meeting at Sicyon Polybius prevails. |
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Polybius advocates the cause of the Ptolemies. |
Callicrates defeats the motion, but at a smaller meeting at Sicyon Polybius prevails. |
1 ἐν ἀγορᾶ. The objection, though it served to divert the magistrates from going on with the proposition at the time, seems to have been got over before the meeting at Sicyon; unless, indeed, the latter was considered to be of a different nature in regard to the age of those attending. But we have no information as to this restriction of thirty years of age,—whether it was universal, or confined to particular occasions. This passage would seem to point to the latter alternative.
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