<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="%2Akompasi%2Fw%7C">Κομπασίῳ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29nqrw%2Fpwn">ἀνθρώπων</w> <w lemma="e%29panai%2Fresin">ἐπαναίρεσιν</w> <w lemma="dusaresth%2Fsante%2Fs">δυσαρεστήσαντές</w> <w lemma="tines">τινες</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedai%2Fmoni">Λακεδαίμονι</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="gegono%2Fsi">γεγονόσι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="nomi%2Fsantes">νομίσαντες</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Afilopoi%2Fmenos">Φιλοποίμενος</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="du%2Fnamin">δύναμιν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="prostasi%2Fan">προστασίαν</w> <w lemma="katalelu%2Fsqai">καταλελύσθαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedaimoni%2Fwn">Λακεδαιμονίων</w>, <w lemma="e%29lqo%2Fntes">ἐλθόντες</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w> <w lemma="kathgori%2Fan">κατηγορίαν</w> <w lemma="e%29poih%2Fsanto">ἐποιήσαντο</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="diw%7Ckhme%2Fnwn">διῳκημένων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="%2Afilopoi%2Fmenos">Φιλοποίμενος</w>.
<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="te%2Flos">τέλος</w> <w lemma="e%29cepori%2Fsanto">ἐξεπορίσαντο</w> <w lemma="gra%2Fmmata">γράμματα</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiou%5Cs">Ἀχαιοὺς</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Ama%2Frkou">Μάρκου</w> <w lemma="%2Alepe%2Fdou">Λεπέδου</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dta">ταῦτα</w> <w lemma="genhqe%2Fntos">γενηθέντος</w> <w lemma="a%29rxiere%2Fws">ἀρχιερέως</w>, <w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="u%28%2Fpaton">ὕπατον</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5Cn">ἀρχὴν</w> <w lemma="ei%29lhfo%2Ftos:">εἰληφότος·</w>
<w lemma="o%28%5Cs">ὃς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fgrafe">ἔγραφε</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaioi%3Ds">Ἀχαιοῖς</w>, <w lemma="fa%2Fskwn">φάσκων</w> <w lemma="ou%29k">οὐκ</w> <w lemma="o%29rqw%3Ds">ὀρθῶς</w> <w lemma="au%29tou%5Cs">αὐτοὺς</w> <w lemma="kexeirike%2Fnai">κεχειρικέναι</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2Alakedaimoni%2Fous">Λακεδαιμονίους</w>. <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="presbeuo%2Fntwn">πρεσβευόντων</w>,
<w lemma="eu%29qe%2Fws">εὐθέως</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Afilopoi%2Fmhn">Φιλοποίμην</w> <w lemma="presbeuta%5Cs">πρεσβευτὰς</w> <w lemma="katasth%2Fsas">καταστήσας</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aniko%2Fdhmon">Νικόδημον</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29hlei%3Don">Ἠλεῖον</w> <w lemma="e%29ce%2Fpemyen">ἐξέπεμψεν</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rw%2Fmhn">Ῥώμην</w>.
<w lemma=""></w> <w lemma="%2Akata%5C">Κατὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="kairo%5Cn">καιρὸν</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dton">τοῦτον</w> <w lemma="h%28%3Dke">ἧκε</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%2Fou">Πτολεμαίου</w> <w lemma="presbeuth%5Cs">πρεσβευτὴς</w> <w lemma="%2Adhmh%2Ftrios">Δημήτριος</w> <w lemma="%2A%29aqhnai%3Dos">Ἀθηναῖος</w>, <w lemma="a%29nanewso%2Fmenos">ἀνανεωσόμενος</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="prou+pa%2Frxousan">προϋπάρχουσαν</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fan">συμμαχίαν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="basilei%3D">βασιλεῖ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fqnos">ἔθνος</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w>.
<w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="proqu%2Fmws">προθύμως</w> <w lemma="a%29nadecame%2Fnwn">ἀναδεξαμένων</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29nane%2Fwsin">ἀνανέωσιν</w>, <w lemma="katesta%2Fqhsan">κατεστάθησαν</w> <w lemma="presbeutai%5C">πρεσβευταὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="%2Aluko%2Frtas">Λυκόρτας</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="h%28mw%3Dn">ἡμῶν</w> <w lemma="path%5Cr">πατὴρ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Aqeodwri%2Fdas">Θεοδωρίδας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwsite%2Flhs">Ῥωσιτέλης</w> <w lemma="%2Asikuw%2Fnioi">Σικυώνιοι</w> <w lemma="xa%2Frin">χάριν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="dou%3Dnai">δοῦναι</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Frkous">ὅρκους</w> <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="labei%3Dn">λαβεῖν</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w>.
<w lemma="e%29genh%2Fqh">ἐγενήθη</w> <w lemma="de%2F">δέ</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="kairo%5Cn">καιρὸν</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dton">τοῦτον</w> <w lemma="pa%2Frergon">πάρεργον</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="i%29%2Fsws">ἴσως</w>, <w lemma="a%29%2Fcion">ἄξιον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="mnh%2Fmhs">μνήμης</w>. <w lemma="meta%5C">μετὰ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="suntelesqh%3Dnai">συντελεσθῆναι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29nane%2Fwsin">ἀνανέωσιν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="summaxi%2Fas">συμμαχίας</w>, <w lemma="u%28pe%5Cr">ὑπὲρ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29axaiw%3Dn">Ἀχαιῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28pede%2Fcato">ὑπεδέξατο</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="presbeuth%5Cn">πρεσβευτὴν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Afilopoi%2Fmhn:">Φιλοποίμην·</w>
<w lemma="genome%2Fnhs">γενομένης</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="sunousi%2Fan">συνουσίαν</w> <w lemma="mnh%2Fmhs">μνήμης</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="basile%2Fws">βασιλέως</w>, <w lemma="e%29pibalw%5Cn">ἐπιβαλὼν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="presbeuth%5Cs">πρεσβευτὴς</w> <w lemma="pollou%2Fs">πολλούς</w> <w lemma="tinas">τινας</w> <w lemma="dieti%2Fqeto">διετίθετο</w> <w lemma="lo%2Fgous">λόγους</w> <w lemma="e%29gkwmia%2Fzwn">ἐγκωμιάζων</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Aptolemai%3Don">Πτολεμαῖον</w> <w lemma="kai%2F">καί</w> <w lemma="tinas">τινας</w> <w lemma="a%29podei%2Fceis">ἀποδείξεις</w> <w lemma="proefe%2Freto">προεφέρετο</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="kunhgi%2Fas">κυνηγίας</w> <w lemma="eu%29xerei%2Fas">εὐχερείας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%2Flmhs">τόλμης</w>, <w lemma="e%28ch%3Ds">ἑξῆς</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="i%28%2Fppous">ἵππους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fpla">ὅπλα</w> <w lemma="duna%2Fmews">δυνάμεως</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="a%29skh%2Fsews">ἀσκήσεως</w>.
<w lemma="teleutai%2Fw%7C">τελευταίῳ</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29xrh%2Fsato">ἐχρήσατο</w> <w lemma="marturi%2Fw%7C">μαρτυρίῳ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="pi%2Fstin">πίστιν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29rhme%2Fnwn:">εἰρημένων·</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Ffh">ἔφη</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="au%29to%5Cn">αὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="kunhgetou%3Dnta">κυνηγετοῦντα</w> <w lemma="tau%3Dron">ταῦρον</w> <w lemma="balei%3Dn">βαλεῖν</w> <w lemma="a%29f%27">ἀφ᾽</w> <w lemma="i%28%2Fppou">ἵππου</w> <w lemma="mesagku%2Flw%7C">μεσαγκύλῳ</w>. —
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<head><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> and the League</head>AFTER the execution of the men at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Compasium&groupId=488&placeId=917">Compasium</a>,<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note2">In B. C. 191 Philopoemen secured the adhesion of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> to the Achaean league: but the Spartans were never united in their loyalty to it, and during his year as Strategus (B. C. 189) he punished a massacre of some Achaean sympathisers in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> by an execution of eighty Spartans at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Compasium&groupId=488&placeId=917">Compasium</a> on the frontier of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Laconia&groupId=662&placeId=1211">Laconia</a>. This number Plutarch gives on the authority of Polybius, but another account stated it at three hundred and fifty.<bibl n="Plut. Phil. 16" default="NO" valid="yes">Plut.<title>Phil.</title>16</bibl>.</note>some of the, Lacedaemonians, incensed at what had been done, and<pb n="303" />believing that the power and authority of the Romans had been set at naught by Philopoemen, went to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and accused Philopoemen and his proceedings; and finally obtained a letter addressed to the Achaeans from Marcus Lepidus, the consul of the year, and afterwards Pontifex Maximus, in which he told the Achaeans that they had not acted equitably in the matters of the Lacedaemonians.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note3">An appeal to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> against Philopoemen. B. C. 187. Coss. M. Aemilius Lepidus, C. Flamininus,</note>At the same time as this mission from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>, Philopoemen also appointed Nicodemus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elis&groupId=560&placeId=1048">Elis</a> and others to go on an embassy to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.Just at that time Demetrius of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a> came on a mission<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note4">Renewal of the treaty between the Achaean league and Ptolemy.</note>from Ptolemy, to renew the existing alliance between the king and the Achaean league. This was eagerly accepted, and my father, Lycortas, and Theodoridas, and Rositeles of Sicyon were appointed ambassadors to take the oaths on behalf of the Achaeans, and receive those of the king.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note5">The accomplishments of Ptolemy Epiphanes.</note>And on that occasion a circumstance occurred, which, though not important perhaps, is still worth recording. After the completion of this renewal of alliance on behalf of the Achaeans, Philopoemen entertained the ambassador; and in the course of the banquet the ambassador introduced the king's name, and said a great deal in his praise, quoting anecdotes of his skill and boldness in hunting, as well as his excellence in riding and the use of arms; and ended by quoting, as a proof of what he said, that the king on horseback once transfixed a bull with a javelin. . . .
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