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request was also made by the people of Lampsacus, who brought a crown of eighty pounds' weight,Perhaps a gift to the goddess Roma, like the similar but more lavish gift of Rhodes when in the bad graces of the Romans (Polybius XXX. 5. 4). and called to mind that they had abandoned Perseus, after a Roman army had come into Macedonia, although they had been subject to Perseus and previously to Philip.This statement may be inaccurate; Lampsacus declared itself independent of Antiochus in 196 B.C. (XXXIII. xxxviii. 3) and when last heard of (XXXVII. xxxv. 2, 190 B.C.) was apparently recognized as independent; perhaps Livy or his source has assumed that Lampsacus had abandoned Perseus at the time when it came forward as an ally of Rome. In return for this and for their action in furnishing the Roman generals with everything, they asked only that they might be admitted to friendshipApparently they wanted an entente with Rome, without the precise and formal undertakings of an alli
195 BC (search for this): book 43, chapter 6
supported even their farmers on imported grain, yet they had gathered this amount so as not to fail in their duty;B.C. 171 and they were ready to furnish other things too which might be ordered. The Milesians, without mentioning anything which they had furnished, promised that if the senate wished to order anything for the war they were ready to furnish it. The envoys of Alabanda announced that they had built a temple to the City of Rome,Such a temple had been built by Smyrna in 195 B.C., Tacitus, Annals IV. 56. The conception of Rome as a goddess was quite un-Roman; it was invented by Greeks, adopted by Roman poets (e.g. Vergil, Aeneid VI. 781-7, Lucan, Pharsalia I. 186-192), but not officially adopted as part of Roman religion till the reign of Hadrian (Cassius Dio LXIX. 4. 3). The divinity of cities, either personified or represented by their Fortune, seems like a last freakish form of the glorification of the polls found in Aristotle (Politics I. i. 11: Thus also the ci
190 BC (search for this): book 43, chapter 6
crown of eighty pounds' weight,Perhaps a gift to the goddess Roma, like the similar but more lavish gift of Rhodes when in the bad graces of the Romans (Polybius XXX. 5. 4). and called to mind that they had abandoned Perseus, after a Roman army had come into Macedonia, although they had been subject to Perseus and previously to Philip.This statement may be inaccurate; Lampsacus declared itself independent of Antiochus in 196 B.C. (XXXIII. xxxviii. 3) and when last heard of (XXXVII. xxxv. 2, 190 B.C.) was apparently recognized as independent; perhaps Livy or his source has assumed that Lampsacus had abandoned Perseus at the time when it came forward as an ally of Rome. In return for this and for their action in furnishing the Roman generals with everything, they asked only that they might be admitted to friendshipApparently they wanted an entente with Rome, without the precise and formal undertakings of an alliance (societas). Usually, friendship and alliance go hand in hand (e.g.