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Criticism Of Theopompus
I do not know any one who deserves more blame in
The extravagance of Theopompus's account of Philip II.
this particular than Theopompus. In the beginning of his history of Philip he said that what
chiefly induced him to undertake it was the fact
that Europe had never produced such a man as
Philip son of Amyntas; and then immediately afterwards, both
in his preface and in the whole course of his history, he
represents this king as so madly addicted to women, that he
did all that in him lay to ruin his own family by this inordinate
passion; as having behaved with the grossest unfairness and
perfidy to his friends and allies; as having enslaved and
treacherously seized a vast number of towns by force or fraud;
and as having been besides so violently addicted to strong
drink, that he was often seen by his friends drunk in open day.
But if any one will take the trouble to read the opening
passage of his forty-ninth book, he would be indeed astonished
at this writer
The Gauls In Asia
During this period Prusias also did a thing which
Prusias and the Gauls. See ch. 78.
deserves to be recorded. The Gauls, whom
King Attalus had brought over from Europe to
assist him against Achaeus on account of their
reputation for courage, had separated from that monarch on
account of the jealous suspicions of which I have before spoken,
and were plundering the cities on the Hellespont with gross
licentiousness and violence, and finally went so far as actually
to besiege Ili and children in the camp, leaving
the baggage to be plundered by his soldiers. This achievement of Prusias delivered the cities on the Hellespont from
great fear and danger, and was a signal warning for future
generations against barbarians from Europe being over-ready
to cross into Asia.
Such was the state of affairs in Greece and Asia. Meanwhile the greater part of Italy had joined the CarthaginiansB. C. 220-216.
after the battle of Cannae, as I have shown before. I will
interrupt my narrativ
Situation in Illyria
It was at this same period that the Romans for the first
Illyricum.
time crossed to Illyricum and that part of
Europe with an army. The history of this expedition must not be treated as immaterial; but must be carefully studied by those who wish to understand clearly the
story I have undertaken to tell, and to trace the progress and
consolidation of the Roman Empire.
Agron, king of the Illyrians, was the son of Pleuratus, andB C. 233-232.
possessed the most powerful force, both by
land and sea, of any of the kings who had
reigned in Illyria before him. By a bribe received from
Demetrius he was induced to promise help to the Medionians,
who were at that time being besieged by the
Aetolians, who, being unable to persuade the
Medionians to join their league, had determined
to reduce the city by force. Siege of Medion in Acarnania. They accordingly levied their
full army, pitched their camp under the walls of the city, and
kept up a continuous blockade, using every me