The Roman Senate sends envoys to negotiate…

The Roman Senate sends envoys to negotiate with the Dalmatians in 157 BCE, but they return complaining that they had been received in an unfriendly manner, and that they would have been killed if they had not effected a secret escape.

One factor that leads to the Dalmatian war of 156-155 according to Polybius (32.13.6–7) was the Romans’ concern lest ‘the Italians should be made effeminate by the long peace, it being now the twelfth year since the war with Perseus’.