The histories of Polybius. Translated from the text of F. Hultsch by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh by Polybius

Author:Polybius
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C, Greece -- History
Publisher: London Macmillan
Published: 1889-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

magistrates, asserting that " They did not act wrongly or deserve blame for refusing to summon the assembly, Defence of the unless it were requisite to decide on an alliance refusal to call the or a war, or unless some one brought a letter Achaean assembly. from the Senate. The magistrates had therefore impartially considered the subject of summoning the assembly, but were prevented from doing so by the laws, because he neither brought a despatch from the Senate nor would show them any written instructions." At the conclusion of this speech Caecilius rose and made an attack on Philopoemen and Lycortas, and the Achaeans generally, and on the policy they had pursued towards the city of Sparta. After listening to the arguments, the Senate answered the Achaeans by saying that they would send commissioners to investigate the matter of Sparta; and they accompanied this answer by an admonition to them to pay attention to the ambassadors sent by them from time to time, and show them proper respect, as the Romans did to ambassadors who came to them. . . .

17. When Philip learnt, by a message from his own ambassadors at Rome, that he would be obliged , ,. ,

, ..'._,, , " Philip s vengeance

to evacuate the cities m ihrace, he was ex-on the people of tremely annoyed, because he regarded his Maroneia, early kingdom as being now curtailed on every side; mB c - l8 4-and he vented his wrath upon the unhappy people of Maroneia. He sent for Onomastus, his governor in Thrace, and communicated with him on the subject. And Onomastus on his return sent Cassander to Maroneia, who, from long residence there, was familiar with the inhabitants,—for Philip's practice had long been to place members of his court in these cities, and accustom the people to their residence among them. Some few days after his arrival, the Thracians having been prepared for what they had to do, and having obtained entrance to the city by night through the instrumentality of Cassander, a great massacre took place, and many of the Maronites were killed. Having wreaked this vengeance on those who opposed him, and satisfied his own anger, Philip waited for the arrival of the Roman legates, persuaded that no one would venture for fear of him to denounce his crime. But when Appius and his colleagues presently arrived, they

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