Into the details of the campaigns which followed it is unnecessary to enter; but the attention of the Romans was soon afterward directed to affairs in Spain, and the Ætolians were left almost alone to cope with Philip.
But Antiochus was persuaded by the Ætolians to cross over into Greece, and accordingly landed at Demetrias in Thessaly in B.
Flamininus had scarcely quitted Greece before the Ætolians endeavored to persuade Philip, Nabis, and Antiochus to enter into a league against the Romans.
Th' Ætolians did defend Their flourishing country, which to spoil the Curets did contend.
The latter sallied forth under the leadership of Agis, who proved such a skillful general, that he not only won a great victory, but also drove the Ætolians out of the peninsula.
The Ætolians now became the champions of freedom, and marched against the Achæans, whom they defeated.
Then did the elders of the Ætolians entreat him, and sent chosen priests to the gods, that he would come forth and defend them, promising a great gift.
Titus preserved for Philip the semblance of royal power, and treated even the Ætolians with indulgence, while Philopœmen in his anger detached the confederation of villages from his native city.
Once during a severe battle with the Eleans and Ætolians on the banks of the river Larissa, Damophantus, the commander of the Elean horse, rode furiously to attack Philopœmen.
Upon this the Ætolians threw off all disguise, openly urged these cities to revolt, and called upon Titus to loose the chains of Greece, as Philip was wont to call these three cities.
But as soon as Philip the Macedonian formed an alliance with the Achæans, the Romans would have been driven out of Greece completely but for the fact that the helmet of Philip fell off and the Ætolians got possession of it.
And in order to avoid having himself such an experience as the Greeks had met who were arrayed there against the Persian he sent a division of the Ætolians up to the summit of the mountains to keep guard there.
And straightway the whole Greek world, so to speak, was thrown into a turmoil which the Ætolians did their best to increase.
Cato had come upon the Ætolians asleep and had killed most of them and scattered the rest; then he hurried down and participated in the battle going on below.
Flamininus went about Greece, and some he persuaded not to revolt, others already revolted he won back, except the Ætolians and a few towns elsewhere.
The Ætolians when they had sent ambassadors to Rome the second time in regard to peace themselves raised the standard of rebellion.
So the Ætolians held a conference with him about peace, but finding him disinclined to a truce they sent a part of their army into Ambracia.
Here also they fought with their entire armies, and the outcome would have left both with equal honors if the Ætolians had not made the Romans superior.
Though the remainder of the Ætolians wanted to become reconciled, still they made no truce because Antiochus sent them envoys and money; and they set themselves in readiness for war.
Glabrio at once occupied Boeotia and Euboea, and proceeded to deliver assaults upon Heraclea, since the Ætolians were unwilling to yield to him.
Publius Sulpicius assisted by Ætolians and other allies devastated a large part of Achæa.
They granted the Ætolians a respite for the purpose of once more conducting an embassy to Rome regarding peace, and hurried on against Antiochus.
When they had agreed to treat, the Ætolians also changed their course and secured an armistice.
The Ætolians were a very powerful people, and carried on war together with the Acarnanians.
As a sling reaches its object at a greater distance than a bow, Degmenus fell; the Ætolians took possession of the country, and ejected the Epeii.
With respect to the Curetes, some facts are related which belong more immediately, some more remotely, to the history of the Ætolians and Acarnanians.
We shall now speak of their affairs where they are intermixed in common with those of the Ætolians, and we shall then relate as much of the history of the Ætolians as we proposed to add to our former account of this people.
Whence he clearly convicts those of falsehood who assert, that the Eleii were a colony of Ætolians, and that the Ætolians were not a colony of Eleii.
The Ætolians however, in conjunction with the Acarnanians, during a long period withstood the Macedonians and the other Greeks, and lastly the Romans, in their contest for independence.
The Ætolians were little known in the palmy days of Athens and Sparta, except as a hardy race, but covetous and faithless.
At the end of the campaign the Romans stood as they were in the spring, but would have been routed had not the Ætolians interposed.
The Ætolians lost all cities and territories which were in the hands of their adversaries.
First, the Ætolians were reduced to poverty and deprived of their independence, for having espoused the cause of Anti'ochus of Syria, the enemy of Rome.
The Ætolians leagued with the Romans against Macedon.
Thus the Achæan League allied itself with Macedon against the Ætolians and against Sparta.
But Nicander says that thiagones is the name given by the Ætolians to those loaves which are made for the gods.
Philip although in Demetrias was unable to check their encroachments speedily because the Ætolians had seized the passes in advance.
Philip of Macedon offered to come and drive out Nabis if the Achaians would help him, but they distrusted him, and did not choose to go to war with the Romans, whom the robber Ætolians had called from Italy to assist them.
Wars were going on at this time between Philip of Macedon, on the one side, and the Ætolians on the other.
A war went on for many years between the Macedonians, with the Achaians on the one hand and the Ætolians on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
