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[484] App. _Bell. Civ_. i. 34 [Greek: _esaegoumenos de taen gnomaen kai epimenon autae karteros, upa taes boulaes epi tina strateian exepemphthae dia tode_].

[485] Liv. _Ep_. lx; Ammian, xv. 12. 5.

[486] An isolated notice speaks of a rising at Asculum. [Victor] _de Vir. Ill_. 65 (C. Gracchus) Asculanae et Fregellanae defectionis invidiam sustinuit.

[487] Liv. viii. 22.

[488] Liv. xxvii. 10.

[489] Liv. _Ep_. lx L. Opimius praetor Fregellanos, qui defecerant, in deditionem accepit; Fregellas diruit. Cf. Vellei. ii. 6; Obsequens 90; Plut. _C. Gracch_. 3; [Cic.] _ad Herenn_. iv. 15. 22.

[490] Vellei. i. 15 Ca.s.sio autem Longino et s.e.xtio Calvino ...

consulibus Fabrateria deducta est.

[491] Plut. _C. Gracch_. 3.

[492] It has been supposed that this boy may really have been the son of Attalus brother of Eumenes, a fruit of the transitory connection between this prince and Stratonice, which followed the false news of Eumenes's death in 172 B.C. See F. Kopp _De Attali III patre_ in _Rhein. Mus_.

xlviii. pp. 154 ff.; Wilcken in Pauly-Wissowa _Real, Enc_. p. 2170, and for the temporary marriage of Attalus with Stratonice Plut. _de Frat.

Amor_. 18; Polyb. x.x.x. 2. 6. Livy (xlii. 16) and perhaps Diodorus (xxix.

34) speak only of Attalus's wooing, not of his marriage. If Attalus the Third was not the son of Eumenes, he was at least adopted by the king and was clearly recognised as his heir. The official view made the relations.h.i.+p between the Attali that of uncle and nephew.

[493] For the guardians.h.i.+p of the younger Attalus see Strabo xiii. 4. 2.

The recognition of the regent as king is clearly attested by inscriptions (Frankel _Inschriften von Pergamon_ nn. 214 ff., 224, 225, 248. In n. 248.) the future Attalus the Third is called by the king [Greek: _ho tadelphon nios_] (l. 18, cf. l. 32 [Greek: _ho theios mon_] used by Attalus the Third) and has some power of appointment to the priesthood. There is no sign that the nephew was in any other respect a co-regent of the uncle. See Frankel op. cit. p. 169.

[494] Liv. x.x.xviii. cc. 12, 23, 25; Polyb. xxi. 39.

[495] Liv. xliv. 36; xlv. 19.

[496] Wilcken in Pauly-Wissowa _Real. Enc_. p. 2168 foll.

[497] Polyb. x.x.xii. 22; Diod. x.x.xi. 32 b.

[498] For the details of this struggle see Wilcken l.c. p. 2172; Ussing _Pergamos_ p. 50.

[499] Ussing op. cit. p. 51.

[500] Strabo xiii. 4. 2.

[501] Strabo l.c.; Lucian. _Macrob_. 12. He was sixty-one years old at his accession and eighty-two years old at the time of his death.

[502] Justin. x.x.xvi. 4; Diod. x.x.xiv. 3.

[503] Once, indeed, he seems to have taken the field with some success, as is proved by a decree in honour of a victory (Frankel _Inschr. von Pergamon_ n. 246). A vote of the town of Elaea honours the king [Greek: _aretaes heneken kai andragathias taes kata polemon, krataesanta ton hupenantion_] (l. 22). The victory is also mentioned in n. 249.

[504] Liv. _Ep_. lviii. Heredem autem populum Romanum reliquerat Attalus, rex Pergami, Eumenis filius. Cf. ib. lix; Strabo xiii. 4. 2; Vellei. ii. 4; Val. Max. v. 2, ext. 3; Plut. _Ti. Gracch_. 14; Eutrop.

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