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145 BC (search for this): book 39, chapter 16
Polybius Supports the Constitution After completing these arrangements in six months, B. C. 145. The commissioners return in the spring, leaving instructions with Polybius to explain the new constitutions. the ten commissioners sailed for Italy, at the beginning of spring, having left a noble monument of Roman policy for the contemplation of all Greece. They also charged Polybius, as they were departing, to visit all the cities and to decide all questions that might arise, until such time as they were grown accustomed to their constitution and laws. Which he did: and after a while caused the inhabitants to be contented with the constitution given them by the commissioners, and left no difficulty connected with the laws on any point, private or public, unsettled. [Wherefore the people, who always admired and honouredNote by a friend of Polybius as to the effect of his careful fulfilment of his commission. this man, being in every way satisfied with the conduct of his last years and hi