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After a
good deal of rough-handling the Aetolians at last succeeded in getting the
terms of peace settled. They were as follows: "The nation of the Aetolians
shall uphold sincerely and honestly the majesty and dominion of the Roman
people; they shall not suffer to pass through their territories or in any way
assist any army which may be led against the friends and allies of Rome; they
shall count the enemies of Rome as their enemies and bear arms against them
and wage war against them equally with Rome; they shall restore to the
Romans and their allies the deserters, the refugees and the prisoners, save
and except any who have escaped from captivity and returned to their homes
and then been taken captive a second time, and any prisoners from amongst
those who were fighting against Rome at the time when the Aetolians
formed a part of the Roman forces. Of the others, all who are known shall be
handed over without reserve or subterfuge to the magistrates at Corcyra
within 100 days; those who have not then been discovered shall be delivered
up as soon as they are found. The Aetolians shall surrender forty hostages,
such as the consul in his discretion shall choose, not less than twelve or more
than forty years of age. No magistrate or commander of cavalry or public
secretary shall be taken as a hostage, nor any one who has been previously
held as a hostage by the Romans. Cephallania shall be excluded from the
terms of peace." As to the indemnity which they were to pay and the method
of payment, the understanding with the consul held good. If they preferred
to pay it in silver rather than in gold, they might do so provided that ten
silver pieces were taken as the equivalent of one gold piece. "Concerning the
cities, the territories, the populations, which have at any time been
incorporated in the Aetolian League -those of them which have either been
subjugated or voluntarily surrendered to Rome during the consulships of T.
Quinctius, Cneius Domitius, or the consuls which followed them, none of
these must the Aetolians seek to recover. The Oeniadae with the city and the
soil shall belong to the Acarnanians." Such were the terms upon which peace
was concluded with the Aetolians.