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[10] A few years later the Romans took pity on Greece, restored the various old racial confederacies, with the right to acquire property in a foreign country, and remitted the fines imposed by Mummius. For he had ordered the Boeotians to pay a hundred talents to the people of Heracleia and Euboea, and the Achaeans to pay two hundred to the Lacedaemonians. Although the Romans granted the Greeks remission of these payments, yet down to my day a Roman governor has been sent to the country. The Romans call him the Governor, not of Greece, but of Achaia, because the cause of the subjection of Greece was the Achaeans, at that time at the head of the Greek nation.1 This war came to an end when Antitheus was archon at Athens, in the hundred and sixtieth Olympiad2, at which Diodorus of Sicyon was victorious.3

1 With Frazer's reading: “when the Romans subdued Greece, Achaia was at the head, etc.”

2 140 B.C.

3 Pausanias seems to have made a mistake, as Corinth was taken in 146 B.C.

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