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They took him alive, and decreed that both he and those who reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel of land from the best of their provinces:
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Verse 7. Alive. He was forced to submit to conditions, as hard as if he had been prisoner. Calmet.—He was present with the ambassabors at Lysimachia, to see the conditions put in execution. Polyd. xvii.—Tribute. He had to pay all the expenses of the war, 15,000 talents of Eubea, 350 to Eumenes, and 127 for wheat. Twenty hostages were required to be exchanged every three years.—Upon. Greek “the division,” ( Calmet.) or all Europe, and from Halys as far as Mount Taurus. All his elephants at Apamea, and his ships of war, were also ceded. Livy xxxviii.
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