A Manual of Ancient History Particularly With Regard to the Constitutions the
A Manual of Ancient History Particularly With Regard to the Constitutions the
A H L Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren
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Beginning of the Macedonian war, 171, before Rome was prepared ; a deceitful truce, which raised the indignation even of the elder senators, was the means resorted to for gaining time. Notwithstanding this, the war at first, 170 and 169, was favourable to Perseus ; but he wanted resolution and judgment to enable him to turn his advantages to account. In 168, Paulus ^milius, an old general, against the usual custom of the Romans, took the command. Bloody and decisive battle near Pj'dna, June 22,... 168. So completely may one day overturn a kingdom which has only an army for its support ! Contempo- rary with this war, and highly fortunate for Rome, was the war of Antiochus Epiphanes with Egypt. No wonder that Rome did not, till 168, through Popilius, command peace between them ! (See above, p. 209. ) Its conse- 17. The dcstructiou of the Macedonian monarchy was attended with consequences equally disastrous to the conquerors and the conquered. To the first it soon gave the notion of becoming the masters of the world, instead of its arbiters ; and it exposed the lat- ter, for the next twenty years, to all the evils insepar- able from such a catastrophe.
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