About 160 BCE the Attalid king Attalus answers a petition from 'the city and the elders of Amlada', a small Pisidian hill community that had defected during the Galatian war. Its envoys — Oprasates, Nalagloas and Menneas, bearing native Anatolian names — came with a written memorandum asking three things: that their hostages be released, that the nine thousand drachmas they owed as arrears of a war 'repair-levy' be cancelled, and that their annual tribute of two talents be eased, for they were 'oppressed by many burdens and now in weakness'. The king answers point by point. 'Seeing that you have repented of your former offences' and that they zealously carry out his instructions, he takes forethought for them: he deducts three thousand drachmas from the tribute and the assessment, cancels the nine thousand of arrears, and — the letter's climax — frees the hostages. It is the corpus's first letter to a subject community rather than a free city: the machinery of imperial discipline, hostages and tribute and collective punishment, relaxed as calculated grace — the other face of the same Attalid kingship that courts the Greek leagues.约公元前160年，阿塔罗斯王答复「阿姆拉达城与长老」之请愿 —— 此乃皮西迪亚一山地小社群，曾于加拉太战争中叛离。其使节奥普拉萨忒斯、纳拉格洛阿斯、门尼阿斯（皆操安纳托利亚土著之名）持书面陈情而来，所求有三：释其人质、免其因战时「修缮捐」所欠之九千德拉克马、并轻其每年二塔兰同之贡赋，因彼等「为众多重负所压，今已困弱」。王逐条答之。「见你等已悔前过」，且热忱奉行其命，遂为之筹谋：自贡赋与摊派中减三千德拉克马，免九千之欠款，并 —— 此函之高潮 —— 释其人质。此为本集首件致臣属社群（而非自由城邦）之书：人质、贡赋、连带惩罚之帝国治理机器，化作精算之恩典而松解 —— 与笼络希腊同盟者同一阿塔罗斯王权之另一面。