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Greece Assigned to Flamininus
The Senate then, as I have said before, assigned Gaul
B. C. 197 Coss. G. Cornelius Cathagus, Q. Minucius Rufus.
to both the consuls as their province, and
ordered that the war against Philip should go
on, assigning to Titus Flamininus the entire
control of Greek affairs. These decrees
having been quickly made known in Greece, Flamininus
found everything settled to his mind, partly no doubt by the
assistance of chance, but for the most part by his own foresight in the management of the whole business. For he
was exceedingly acute, if ever Roman was. The skill and
good sense with which he conducted public business and
private negotiations could not be surpassed, and yet he was
quite a young man, not yet more than thirty, and the first
Roman who had crossed to Greece with an army.
Attalus in Sicyon
King Attalus had for some time past been held in
Attalus in Sicyon, B. C. 198.
extraordinary honour by the Sicyonians, ever
since the time that he ransomed the sacred
land of Apollo for them at the cost of a large
sum of money; in return for which they set up the colossal
statue of him, ten cubits high, near the temple of Apollo in
the market-place. But on this occasion, on his presenting
them with ten talents and ten thousand medimni of wheat,
their devotion to him was immensely increased; and they
accordingly voted him a statue of gold, and passed a law to
offer sacrifice in his honour every year. With these honours,
then, Attalus departed to Cenchreae.Attalus spent the winter of B.C. 198-197 at Aegina, in the course of which
he seems to have visited Sicyon. . . .
Attalus and the Boeotians
The tyrant Nabis, leaving Timocrates of Pellene at
The cruelty of Apega, wife of Nabis.
Argos,—because he trusted him more than any
one else and employed him in his most important undertakings,—returned to Sparta: and
thence, after some few days, despatched his wife with instructions to go to Argos and raise money. On her arrival she far
surpassed Nabis himself in cruelty. For she summoned women
to her presence either privately or in families, and inflicted
every kind of torture and violence upon them, until she had
extorted from almost all of them, not only their gold ornaments,
but also the most valuable parts of their clothing. . . .
In a speech of considerable length AttalusB.C. 197.
King Attalus before the assembled Boeotians. See Livy, 33, 2.
reminded them of the ancient valour of their
ancestors. .
Roman and Greek Palisading
Flamininus being unable to ascertain where the enemy
B. C. 197, at the beginning of spring. Livy, 33, 1.
were encamped, but yet being clearly informed
that they had entered Thessaly, gave orders
to all his men to cut stakes to carry with them,
ready for use at any moment. This seems impossible
to Greek habits, but to those of Rome it is easy. The methods of forming palisades among the Greeks and Romans. For
the Greeks find it difficult to hold even their
sarissae on the march, and can scarcely bear
the fatigue of them; but the Romans strap
their shields to their shoulders with leathern
thongs, and, having nothing but their javelins in their hands,
can stand the additional burden of a stake. There is also
a great difference between the stakes employed by the two
peoples. The Greeks hold that the best stake is that which
has the largest and most numerous shoots growing round the
stem; but the Roman stakes have only two or three side shoots,
or at most four;
Both Sides Advance on Scotusa
Dissatisfied with the country near Pherae, as being
Autumn of B. C. 197 Both Philip and Flamininus advance towards Scotusa, on opposite sides of a range of hills.
thickly wooded and full of walls and gardens,
both parties broke up their camps next day.
Philip directed his march towards Scotusa, because he desired to supply himself with provisions from that town, and thus, with all his
preparations complete, to find a district more
suitable to his army: while Flamininus,
divining his intention, got his army on the march at the
same time as Philip, in great haste to anticipate him in
securing the corn in the territory of Scotusa. A range
of hills intervening between their two lines of march, the
Romans could not see in what direction the Macedonians were
marching, nor the Macedonians the Romans. Both armies,
however, continued their march during this day, Flamininus to
Eretria in Phthiotis, and Philip to the river Onchestus; and
there they respectively pit
Congress at Tempe Begins
Titus then having appointed Philip a day for the congress, immediately wrote to the allies announcing when they were to appear; and a few days
The congress of Tempe, B. C. 197.
afterwards came himself to the pass of Tempe at the appointed
time. When the allies had assembled, and the congress met,
the Roman imperator rose and bade each say on what terms
they ought to make peace with Philip.Speech of King Amynandros. King Amynandros
then delivered a short and moderate speech,
merely asking that "they would all have some
consideration for him, to prevent Philip, as soon
as the Romans left Greece, from turning the whole weight of his
anger upon him; for the Athamanes were always an easy prey
to the Macedonians, because of their weakness and the close
contiguity of their territory."Alexander the Aetolian.
When he had finished, Alexander the Aetolian rose and complimented Flamininus for "having assembled the allies in that
congress to discuss the terms of peace; an
Peace Terms Agreed On
The other members of the congress were delighted
The terms of the peace settled. Winter of B. C. 197.
at this speech of Flamininus. But the Aetolians listened with indignation; and what proved
to be the beginning of serious evils was
engendered. For this quarrel was the spark
from which, not long afterwards, both the war with the Aetolians and that with Antiochus flamed out. The principal
motive of Flamininus in being thus forward in coming to
terms was the information he had received that Anticchus
had started from Syria with an army, with the intention of
crossing over into Europe. Therefore he was anxious lest
Philip, catching at this chance, should determine to defend
the towns and protract the war; and lest meanwhile he should
himself be superseded by another commander from home, on
whom the honour of all that he had achieved would be
diverted. Therefore the terms which the king asked were
granted: namely, that he should have four months' suspension
of host