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            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menestratus_2</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menestratus_2</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menestratus-bio-2" n="menestratus_2"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Mene'stratus</surname></persName></head><p>(<foreign xml:lang="grc">Μένεστρατος, Μενέστας</foreign>), or MENESTAS, of Epeirus,
      was one of the chief instigators of the Aetolians to their war, in conjunction with Antiochus,
      against Rome, which commenced in <date when-custom="-192">B. C. 192</date>. In the following year,
      when the Aetolians sued for peace, M'. Acilius Glabrio, the consul, demanded that Menestratus
      should be delivered up, but the demand was not complied with. (<bibl n="Plb. 20.10">Plb.
       20.10</bibl>, <bibl n="Plb. 22.14">22.14</bibl>; <bibl n="Liv. 36.21">Liv. 36.21</bibl>,
       <bibl n="Liv. 38.10">38.10</bibl>.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.E">E.E</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
                </passage>
            </reply>
            </GetPassage>