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Attalus Comes to Rome
ATTALUS, brother of king Eumenes, came to Rome this
B.C. 167. Coss. Q. Aelius Paetus, M. Junius Pennus. Attalus, at Rome, is persuaded to try by the Roman help to supplant his brother.
year, pretending that, even if the disaster of the
Gallic rising had not happened to the kingdom,
he should have come to Rome, to congratulate
the Senate, and to receive some mark of its
approval for having been actively engaged on
their side and loyally shared in all their dangers;
but, as it happened, he had been forced to come
at that time to Rome owing to the danger from
the Gauls. Upon finding a general welcome from everybody,
owing to the acquaintance formed with him on the campaign,
and the belief that he was well disposed to them, and meeting
with a reception that surpassed his expectation, the young
man's hopes were extraordinarily raised, because he did not
know the true reason of this friendly warmth. The result was
that he narrowly escaped ruining his own and his brot
Rhodian Ambassadors Argue Against War
There also came embassies from Rhodes, the first headed
Fresh embassies from Rhodes, B. C. 167. See 29, 27.
by Philocrates, the second by Philophron
and Astymedes. For when the Rhodians received the answer given to the embassy of
Agesipolis immediately after the battle of Pydna,
they understood the anger and threatening
attitude of the Senate towards them, and promptly despatched
these embassies. Astymedes and Philophron, observing in
the course of public and private conversations the suspicions
and anger entertained towards them at Rome, were reduced to
a state of great discouragement and distress. Terror of the Rhodian envoys at the threat of war.
But when one of the praetors mounted the
Rostra and urged the people to declare war
against Rhodes, then indeed they were beside themselves with
terror at the danger that threatened their country. They
assumed mourning garments, and in their various interviews
with their friends dropped the tone of pe
Statue-bases for Perseus Used by Aemilius
The most striking illustration of the mutability and
The columns constructed at Delphi for statues of Perseus used by Aemilius. Autumn of B. C. 167. Livy, 45, 27.
capriciousness of Fortune is when a man, within
a brief period, turns out to have been preparing
for the use of his enemies the very things which
he imagined that he was elaborating in his own
honour. Thus Perseus was having some columns
made, which Lucius Aemilius, finding unfinished,
caused to be completed, and placed statues of himself on
them. . . .
He admired the situation of the city, and the excellentAemilius at Corinth.
position of the acropolis for commanding the
districts on both sides of the Isthmus.
Having been long anxious to see Olympia,At Olympia.
he set out thither.
Aemilius entered the sacred enclosure at Olympia, and
was struck with admiration at the statue of the god, remarking that, to his mind, Pheidias was the only artist who had
represented the Zeus of Homer;
The Romanising Party Takes Command Throughout Greece
After the destruction of Perseus, immediately after the
The selection of suspected Greeks, especially Achaeans, to be sent to Italy, B. C. 167.
decisive battle, embassies were sent on all sides
to congratulate the Roman commanders on the
event. And as now all power tended towards
Rome, in every city those who were regarded
as of the Romanising party were in the
ascendant, and were appointed to embassies
and other services. Accordingly they flocked into Macedonia—from Achaia, Callicrates, Aristodamus, Agesias, and
Philippus; from Boeotia, Mnasippos; from Acarnania, Chremas; from Epirus, Charops and Nicias; from Aetolia, Lyciscus
and Tisippus. These all having met, and eagerly vieing with
each other in attaining a common object; and there being no
one to oppose them, since their political opponents had all
yielded to the times and completely retired, they accomplished
their purpose without trouble. So the ten commissioners
issued or
Envoys from Achaia in the Senate
After an interval the envoys of the Achaeans were
B. C. 165. Embassy from Achaia asking for the trial or release of
the Achaean détenus, who to the number of over 1000
had been summoned to Italy in B. C. 167. See 30, 13. Pausan. 7.10.11.
admitted with instructions conformable to the
last reply received, which was to the effect that
"The Senate were surprised that they should
apply to them for a decision on matters which they
had already decided for themselves." Accordingly another embassy under Eureas now appeared
to explain that "The league had neither heard
the defence of the accused persons, nor given
any decision whatever concerning them; but
wished the Senate to take measures in regard
to these men, that they might have a trial and not perish
uncondemned. They begged that, if possible, the Senate
should itself conduct the investigation, and declare who are the
persons guilty of those charges; but, if its variety of business
made it impossible to