<head>Mummius in Greece</head>The Roman Proconsul, after the commissioners<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note41">Mummius acted in Greece with clean hands and great moderation.</note>had left Achaia, having restored the holy places in the Isthmus and ornamented the temples in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Olympia&groupId=809&placeId=1462">Olympia</a> and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Delphi&groupId=534&placeId=363">Delphi</a>, proceeded to make a tour of the cities, receiving marks of honour and proper gratitude in each. And indeed he deserved honour both public and private, for he conducted himself with self-restraint and disinterestedness, and administered his office with mildness, although he had great opportunities of enriching himself, and immense authority in Greece. And in fact in the points in which he was thought to have at all overlooked justice, he appears not to have done it for his own sake, but for that of his friends. And the most<pb n="540" />conspicuous instance of this was in the case of the Chalcidian horsemen whom he put to death.<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note42"><cit><quote lang="la">Thebae quoque et <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chalcis&groupId=457&placeId=853">Chalcis</a>, quae auxilio fuerant, dirutae. Ipse L. Mummius abstinentissimum virum egit; nec quidquam ex iis opibus ornamentisque, quae praedives Corinthus habuit, in domum ejus pervenit.</quote><bibl n="Liv. Per. 52" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy,<title>Ep.</title>52</bibl></cit>.</note>. . .
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