Machatas na Aetolia

An aika Machatas na Aetolia a matsayin jakadan Aetolian League zuwa Sparta a farkon Yakin Jama'a (220-217 BC), don ƙoƙarin sa Lacedaemonians su shiga Aetolians a kan Philip V na Makidoniya da Achaean League. Ofishin jakadancinsa na farko bai yi nasara ba; amma jim kadan bayan haka, canji ya faru a cikin gwamnatin Sparta, sakamakon zaben sarakuna biyu Agesipolis III da Lykourgos, Machatas ya dawo, kuma a wannan lokacin ya haifar da ƙarshen haɗin gwiwar da aka tsara. Daga can ya ci gaba zuwa Elis, kuma ya sa Eleans su hada kai da sabuwar ƙungiyar da aka kafa a kan Ƙungiyar Achaean.

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