32.
After this had been said by the Roman [p. 97]commissioner, and the opinions of all were turning1 toward the Romans, Damocritus, chief of the Aetolians, bribed —so men say —by
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the king, argued, not agreeing in any way with either side, that nothing was so inconsistent with wisdom in a great crisis as haste; for repentance, swift yet none the less late and unavailing, followed, when hastily-formed plans could not be recalled or annulled.
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The time for making the decision, the ripe moment for which should, in his judgment, be awaited, could be fixed even now:
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since it was provided by the laws that questions concerning peace or war should not be debated except at the Panaetolian and Pylaic2
1 B.C. 200
2 This is probably the other stated meeting of the League, but this name is not used elsewhere in this connection. [5] Possibly, as Professor Capps suggests to me, the Pylaic meeting was that of the Amphictyonic Council, now dominated by Aetolia, at Thermopylae; one expects, however, action by an Aetolian and not by an Amphictyonic agency. Cf.
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