<p rend="Plain Text">The power of Fortune displayed in what happened to the statues of Callicrates and Lycortas</p>
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This excerpt from de sent. is from res Graeciae of Ol. 157, 3 = 150/49 (see p. 46); its context is clear. Following Achaean intervention at Oropus in 150 (xxxii. 11. 5 n.) Menalcidas withheld his share of the Oropian bribe from Callicrates, who, when Menalcidas' year of office was over (autumn 150), accused him of furthering Spartan separatism. Menalcidas then bribed Diaeus, the general for 150/49 (cf. xxxviii. 10. 8 n.), with three talents to avoid the action; and Diaeus, being himself accused of corruption, precipitated a new conflict with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> to divert attention from himself, in the course of which the League condemned 24 leading Spartans, including Menalcidas, to death. Whatever the truth of this rather confused account (the only source for it is Paus. vii. 11. 8–12. 8), late in 149 the Achaeans
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sent an embassy to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> to reply to Spartan complaints, consisting of Diaeus and Callicrates; but Callicrates died on the way (Paus. vii. 12. 8). The removal of his statues must have occurred after news of his death reached <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Achaea&groupId=272&placeId=533">Achaea</a>, and restoration of those of Lycortas, which had probably been removed after Callicrates' rise to power and (§ 2 implies) on his initiative, may well have come about through pressure exerted by P. himself. The embassy will have been dispatched after Diaeus vacated the strategia in autumn 149, and P. will have related this and Callicrates' death under 150/49. See Niese, iii. 339–40 (criticizing Pausanias' version, especially at 339 n. 5); De Sanctis, iv. 3. 129–32; Lehmann, 316–22; Deininger, 220–1.
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<p rend="Plain Text">Love of innovation is sufficient to produce revolutions</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">On the placing of this excerpt from de sent. in res Graeciae or res Asiae of Ol. 157, 3 = 150/49 see p. 46. Errington, 214 n. 4, suggests that it comes from a passage in which P. moralizes on the new atmosphere in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Achaea&groupId=272&placeId=533">Achaea</a> after the restoration of the exiles and Callicrates' death; this is possible, but so are other contexts (one being the rising against Prusias).</p>
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">τῶν . . . εἰκόνων</w>:</emph>
statues of Achaean politicians, living and dead, seem commonly to have been displayed; cf. xxxix. 3. 10 (Achaeus, Aratus, and Philopoemen), 3. 11 (P. himself). The events described may have occurred at Aegium, the federal centre.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Λυκόρτα</w>:</emph>
cf. ii. 40. 2 n.
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<emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">ἴδιον ἐπιτήδευμα τῆς τύχης</w>:</emph>
that Tyche is liable to produce ironical reversals of a situation is one reason for not abusing one's prosperity, <w lang="el-GR">μηδέποτε τοῖς καιροῖς ὑπερηφάνως χρῆσθαι κατὰ τῶν πέλας</w> ; cf. Vol. I, pp. 18–19; von Scala, 174; Siegfried, 86. E. Bayer, Demetrios Phalereus der Athener (Stuttgart–Berlin, 1942), 169 f., suggested Demetrius' influence on P.'s thought here; against this see Erkell, 138–9. P. refers to a popular tradition that made legislators fall foul of their own laws, e.g. Charondas' violation of his law forbidding a man to come armed into the assembly and his consequent suicide (Diod. xii. 19; the same story told of Diocles and Zaleucus: cf. Diod. xiii. 33. 2; Val. Max. vi. 5. ext. 4).
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