Notes on the current edition
Ab Urbe Condita With An English Translation, books 1-10, 21-45, with periochae 11-20
1.
Alabanda and Mylassa lay to north and south, respectively, of Euromus. Rhodes had been interested in Euromus for some time, as shown by XXXII. xxxiii. 6, and probably by XXXIII. xxx. 3. If Livy's order of events is right, this early interest would explain why Rhodes kept Euromus, after the
liberation
of Caria by the Romans; but Polybius puts the
liberation
after an interval following the return of the embassy, and the fighting may have taken place during this interval. Mylassa was left
tax-exempt,
presumably autonomous, by the settlement with Antiochus, XXXVIII.