Legatus (Ambassador)
149
Bithynia
(Broughton MRR I)
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Sent to check Nicomedes, the son and rival of Prusias II of Bithynia, and to prevent Attalus II from going to war with Bithynia, but returned without a decision, on the ground that the Senate had not yet heard the Bithynian complaints regarding Prusias. They were the subjects of Cato's jest regarding the embassy without feet, head or heart (Polyb. 36.14.1-6; Diod. 32.30; Liv. Per. 50, and Oxy. Per. 50; Plut. Cat. Mai. 9.1; App. Mith. 6). (Broughton MRR I)