FROM THE VATICAN MSS. OF CARDINAL MAI The Sibylline books induced the Romans to make war against Philip by these lines: The Macedonians boast their descent from Argive kings. Philip will be the arbiter of weal or woe to you. The elder of that name shall give rulers to cities and peoples, but the younger shall lose every honor, and shall die the subject of a western race. Αὐχοῦντες Βασιλεῦσι Μακηδόνες Ἀργεάδῃσιν, ὑμῖν κοιρανέων ἀγαθὸν καὶ πῆμα Φίλιππος. Ἤτοι ὁ μὲν πρότερος πόλεσιν λαοῖσί τ’ ἄνακτας θήσει, ὁ δ’ ὁπλότερος τιμὴν ἀπὸ πᾶσαν ὀλέσσει, δμηθεὶς δ’ ἑσπερίοισιν ὑπ’ ἀνδράσιν ἐνθάδ’ ὀλεῖται.