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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 10 | 10 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 3-4 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Reaction of the Egyptian Kings
In Egypt the first thing the kings did after being
relieved from the war with Antiochus was to send Numenius,
one of their friends, as an envoy to Rome to
return thanks for the favours received; and
they next released the Lacedaemonian Menalcidas, who had made active use of the occasion against the
kingdom for his own advantage; Gaius Popilius Laenas asked
the king for his release as a favour to himself.Menalcidas was one of the Romanising party, who appears to have been
Strategus of the league in B.C. 153 [Pausan. 7.11.7], and to have committed
suicide in B.C. 148-147, in despair at his failure to wrest Sparta from the league. . . . Release of Menalcidas.
Another Embassy from Achaia
An embassy again coming to Rome from
B. C. 153. Another fruitless embassy from Achaia.
Achaia in behalf of the detenus, the Senate
voted to make no change. . . .
Scipio Volunteers For Spain
The more determined however the Senate was to carry on
The terror of the Celtiberians at Rome made men use every pretext for avoiding service in the army.
the war, the greater became their embarrassment.
For the report brought to Rome by Q. Fulvius
Nobilior, the commander in Iberia in the previous year (B. C. 153), and those who had served
under him, of the perpetual recurrence of the
pitched battles, the number of the fallen, and
the valour of the Celtiberians, combined with the notorious
fact that Marcellus shrank in terror from the war, caused such
a panic in the minds of the new levies as the old men declared
had never happened before. To such an extent did the panic
go, that sufficient men were not found to come forward for the
office of military tribune, and these posts were consequently
not entirely filled up; whereas heretofore a larger number
than were wanted had been wont to volunteer for the duty:
nor would the men nominated by the Consuls as le