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Episode 90, Freedom of Philip V. The Battle of Kynos Kefellai in 197 BC was a major blow to Macedonia, not felt in generations, as nearly 13,000 troops were either killed or sold into slavery.

The king could no longer offer any further resistance to the victorious Roman general,

Titus Quincius Flemanninus, and so the time had come to offer up terms.

After Philip escaped the battle, he rounded up survivors and fled from Macedonia, making sure to

dispatch agents to the Thessalian city of Larissa, to burn any official documents that were

left behind that could have been used as leverage. When Flamininus arrived in Larissa, an ambassador

of the king requested a truce of 15 days to compose his remaining army and proceed with peace talks, which

the consul granted. At Larissa, representatives of the anti-Macedonian alliance had come together

to determine the fate of the kingdom. Those like King Amanander of Athamania and the Atollian delegate

argued that Philip was too dangerous to be left alive. That should the Romans allow him to retain the throne, he would wreak vengeance upon the rest of Greece as soon as the Senate turned its attention away.

Flamininus pushed back against the proposal, explaining that Rome did not wage war to exterminate its enemies without the possibility of reconciliation, as was clearly

demonstrated with their treatment of the Carthaginians after the war with Hannibal.

From a practical point of view, destabilizing Macedonia would leave Greece open to the invasion

of Thracians and Celts that the king otherwise kept at bay.

He did promise, though, that the terms he offered were going to be anything

but light, and would prevent the Antigonid ruler from causing further mischief.

Soon afterwards, the Roman commander and the king met on the outskirts of Tempe to discuss terms.

Philip accepted all the penalties laid upon him, and he offered to adhere to demands laid out at the conference of Nikea.

While the decision had to be ratified by the Senate, Fleminenas proposed that the king pay an indemnity of 400 silver talents,

200 given up front as a deposit that was to be returned if the peace talks fell through.

He was also to hand over his son Demetrius, along with a number of other Macedonian nobles as

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