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146 BC (search for this): book 39, chapter 8
Diaeus Becomes Strategus Critolaus the Achaean Strategus being dead, and the law On the death of Critolaus (spring of B. C. 146) Diaeus succeeds as Strategus. providing that, in case of such an event befalling the existing Strategus, the Strategus of the previous year should succeed to the office until the regular congress of the league should meet, it fell to Diaeus to conduct the business of the league and take the head of affairs. Accordingly, after sending forward some troops to Megara,4000 under Alcamenes, Pausan. 7.15.8. he went himself to Argos; and from that place sent a circular letter to all the towns ordering them to set free their slaves who were of military age, and who had been born and brought up in their houses, and send them furnished with arms to Corinth. He orders the arming of 10,000 slaves, He assigned the numbers to be furnished by the several towns quite at random and without any regard to equality, just as he did everything else. Those who had not the requisit