<head>Statues Replaced</head>The statues of Callicrates<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note6">For Callicrates, the author of the Romanising policy, see 26, 1-3. One of the statues raised to him by the Spartan exiles was at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Olympia&groupId=809&placeId=1462">Olympia</a>, the base of which has been discovered. See Hicks's<title>Greek Inscriptions,</title>p. 330. To what the fragment refers is not clear, but evidently to something connected with the popular movement against <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>, and a recurrence to the policy of Philopoemen as represented by Lycortas, which eventually brought down the vengeance of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.</note>were carried in under the cover of darkness, while those of Lycortas were brought out again by broad daylight, to occupy their original position: and this coincidence drew the remark from every one, that we ought never to use our opportunities against others in a spirit of presumption, knowing that it is extremely characteristic of Fortune to subject those who set a precedent to the operation of their own ideas and principles in their turn. . . .The mere love of novelty inherent in mankind is a sufficient incentive to any kind of change. . . .
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