ac saepe ad patrios bello revocante penates, cum modo Sarmaticus regna infestaret Orestes, aspera nunc Dolopum vis exundasset in agros, incepto tamen haud facilis desistere vano, belli per Graias umbram circumtulit oras: donec, nunc pelago, nunc terra exutus, omisit spem positam in Tyriis et supplex foedera sanxit Dardana nec legem regno accepisse refugit.
Often too he was recalled to his own country by war, when the kingdom was attacked by the Orestae from Sarmatia or a fierce swarm of Dolopes invaded his country. Yet he was loath to abandon his useless designs, and carried on a pretence of warfare round all the coasts of Greece. But at last, stripped of his power by sea and land, he ceased to rely on Carthage and begged for an alliance with Rome and was forced to endure limitations of his kingly power.
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