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That there was no confirmation by the comitia, is clear from Cic. Phil. xii. 11, 27. Sat. 2; Plin. IV. VII. Combats with the Marsians IV. VII. Sulpicius Rufus IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts IV. V. In Illyria IV. VI. Discussions on the Livian Laws IV. VII. Energetic Decrees
These tribes had in earlier times stood in a loose relation of dependence on the rulers of Scodra, and had so far shared in the chastisement inflicted by the Roman expeditions against queen Teuta and Demetrius of Pharos; but on the accession of king Genthius they had revolted and had thus escaped the fate which involved southern Illyria in the fall of the Macedonian empire and rendered it permanently dependent on Rome.
In Illyria also, while Caesar was in Egypt, incidents of a very grave nature had occurred. The Dalmatian coast had been for centuries a sore blemish on the Roman rule, and its inhabitants had been at open feud with Caesar since the conflicts around Dyrrhachium; while the interior also since the time of the Thessalian war, swarmed with dispersed Pompeians.
That the tragedy, moreover, might not be without its accompaniment of farce, at the same time the war against "king" Genthius of Illyria was also begun and ended by the praetor Lucius Anicius within thirty days. The piratical fleet was taken, the capital Scodra was captured, and the two kings, the heir of Alexander the Great and the heir of Pleuratus, entered Rome side by side as prisoners.
Such a contingency was abhorrent to one still pretending to Western empire, and Napoleon in turn procrastinated until the evening of the ninth, when, as a final compromise, he offered the dismemberment of Warsaw, the freedom of Dantzic and Illyria, including Fiume, but retaining Triest.
That the tragedy, moreover, might not be without its accompaniment of farce, at the same time the war against "king" Genthius of Illyria was also begun and ended by the praetor Lucius Anicius within thirty days. The piratical fleet was taken, the capital Scodra was captured, and the two kings, the heir of Alexander the Great and the heir of Pleuratus, entered Rome side by side as prisoners.
Their handwriting is yet upon their walls! A restless and various people overrunning the whole of Greece, found northward in Dacia, Illyria, and the country of the Getae, colonizing the coasts of Ionia, and long the master-race of the fairest lands of Italy, they have passed away amid the revolutions of the elder earth, their ancestry and their descendants alike unknown; yet not indeed the last, if my conclusions are rightly drawn: if the primitive population of Greece themselves Greek founding the language, and kindred with the blood, of the later and more illustrious Hellenes they still made the great bulk of the people in the various states, and through their most dazzling age: Enslaved in Laconia but free in Athens it was their posterity that fought the Mede at Marathon and Plataea, whom Miltiades led, for whom Solon legislated, for whom Plato thought, whom Demosthenes harangued.
Bland in the Children in the Wood when we squeezed out our shillings a-piece to sit three or four times in a season in the one-shilling gallery where you felt all the time that you ought not to have brought me and more strongly I felt obligation to you for having brought me and the pleasure was the better for a little shame and when the curtain drew up, what cared we for our place in the house, or what mattered it where we were sitting, when our thoughts were with Rosalind in Arden, or with Viola at the Court of Illyria?
It was not till the height of summer that the conflict began in Illyria. The admirals of Pompeius in the Adriatic, Marcus Octavius with the Greek, Lucius Scribonius Libo with the Illyrian division of the fleet, attacked the squadron of Dolabella, destroyed all his ships, and cut off Antonius on his island.
As late as July 18th he wrote to Metternich that he was still for peace, provided that Illyria could be gained. But the French military preparations decided him, a few days later, to make war, unless every one of the Austrian demands should be conceded by August 10th. His counsellors had already come to that conclusion, as our records prove.
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