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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 39 | 39 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Philip V
After finishing the celebration of the Nemean games,
King Philip's conduct at Argos after presiding at the Nemean games, B. C. 208. See Livy, 27, 30, 31.
King Philip of Macedon returned to Argos and
laid aside his crown and purple robe, with
the view of making a display of democratic
equality and good nature. But the more
democratic the dress which he wore, the more
absolute and royal were the privileges which he
claimed. He was not now content with seducing unmarried
women, or even with intriguing with married women, but
assumed the right of sending authoritatively for any woman
whose appearance struck him; and offered violence to those
who did not at once obey, by leading a band of revellers to
their houses; and, summoning their sons or their husbands, he
trumped up false pretexts for menacing them. In fact his
conduct was exceedingly outrageous and lawless. But though
this abuse of his privileges as a guest was exceedingly annoying
to many of the Achaeans, and especially
Fall of M. Claudius Marcellus
The Consuls, wishing to reconnoitre the slope of the
B. C. 208. Coss. M. Claudius Marcellus, T. Quinctius Crispinus.
The two Consuls were encamped within three miles of each other, between Venusia and Bantia,
Hannibal had been at Lacinium in Bruttii, but had advanced into Apulia. Livy, 27, 25-27.
hill towards the enemy's camp, ordered their
main force to remain in position; while they
themselves with two troops of cavalry, their
lictors, and about thirty velites advanced to
make the reconnaisance. Now some Numidians,
who were accustomed to lie in ambush for those
who came on skirmishes, or any other services
from the Roman camp, happened, as it chanced,
to have ensconced themselves at the foot of the
hill. Being informed by their look-out man
that a body of men was coming over the brow
of the hill above them, they rose from their
place of concealment, ascended the hill by
a side road, and got between the Consuls
and their camp. Death of the Consul M. Cl
Affairs in Greece: Philip V. Called In Against the Aetolians
The Aetolians had recently become greatly encouraged
King Philip undertakes to aid the Achaean league, and other Greek states,
against a threat-ened attack of the Aetolians in alliance with Rome, B. C. 208.
Cp. Livy, 27, 30. See above Bk. 9, ch. 28-42.
by the arrival of the Romans and King Attalus: and accordingly began menacing every one, and
threatening all with an attack by land, while Attalus and Publius Sulpicius did the same by
sea. Wherefore Achaean legates arrived at the court of King Philip entreating his help: for it
was not the Aetolians alone of whom they were standing in dread, but Machanidas also, as he
was encamped with his army on the frontier of Argos. The Boeotians also, in fear of the
enemy's fleet, were demanding a leader and
help from the king. Most urgent of all, however, were the
Euboeans in their entreaties to him to take some precaution
against the enemy. A similar appeal was being made by the
Aca