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Intrigues of the Aetolians
There could be no doubt of the policy of the Aetolians.
The Aetolians intrigue with Cleomenes. King of Sparta, B. C. 229-227.
They were ashamed indeed to attack the Achaeans
openly, because they could not ignore their
recent obligations to them in the war with
Demetrius: but they were plotting with the
Lacedaemonians; and showed their jealousy of
the Achaeans by not only conniving at the treacherous attack
of Cleomenes upon Tegea, Mantinea, and Orchomenus (cities
not only in alliance with them, but actually members of their
league), but by confirming his occupation of those places. In old
times they had thought almost any excuse good enough to justify
an appeal to arms against those who, after all, had done them no
wrong: yet they now allowed themselves to be treated with such
treachery, and submitted without remonstrance to the loss of
the most important towns, solely with the view of creating in
Cleomenes a formidable antagonist to the Achaeans. These
fact
The Treatment of Mantinea
Now the people of Mantinea had in the first instance
B. C. 227.
abandoned the league, and voluntarily submitted, first to
the Aetolians, and afterwards to Cleomenes.
Being therefore, in accordance with this
policy, members of the Lacedaemonian community, in the
fourth year before the coming of Antigonus, their city was
forcibly taken possession of by the Achaeans owing to the
skilful plotting of Aratus. But on that occasion, so far from
being subjected to any severity Mantinea had in the first instance
B. C. 227.
abandoned the league, and voluntarily submitted, first to
the Aetolians, and afterwards to Cleomenes.
Being therefore, in accordance with this
policy, members of the Lacedaemonian community, in the
fourth year before the coming of Antigonus, their city was
forcibly taken possession of by the Achaeans owing to the
skilful plotting of Aratus. But on that occasion, so far from
being subjected to any severity for their act of treason, it
became a matter of general remark how promptly the feelings of the conquerors and the conquered underwent a
revolution. As soon as he had got possession of the town,
Aratus issued orders to his own men that no one was to lay a
finger on anything that did not belong to him; and then,
having summoned the Mantineans to a meeting, he bade them
be of good cheer, and stay in their own houses; for that, as
long as they remained members of the league, their safety was
secure
The Loyalty of the Megalopolitans
There is another illustration of this writer's manner
Megalopolis
to be found in his treatment of the cases of
Mantinea and Megalopolis. The misfortunes
of the former he has depicted with his usual exaggeration and
picturesqueness: apparently from the notion, that it is the
peculiar function of an historian to select for special mention only such actions as are conspicuously bad. But about
the noble conduct of the Megalopolitans at that same period
he has not said a word: as though it were the province of history to deal with crimes rather than with instances of just and
noble conduct; or as though his readers would be less improved
by the record of what is great and worthy of imitation, than by
that of such deeds as are base and fit only to be avoided. For
instance, he has told us clearly enough how Cleomenes took
the town, preserved it from damage, and forthwith sent couriers
to the Megalopolitans in Messene with a despatch, offering
them the safe e