[Linenotes: 1. +Isthmiorum statum ludicrum+ = _time fixed_ (+statum+) _for the Isthmian Games_ (celebrated at Corinth every two years). 3-4. +quo certamina ... visuntur+ = _which makes them go to see contests of every kind of artistic performance_ (+artium+) _and of feats of strength and agility_. --Rawlins. 7. +concilium is mercatus erat ...+ = _that gathering was the general rendezvous_ (+mercatus+) _of_ ... +mercatus+ = i. _trade_, or _mart_; ii. _a festival assemblage_ (πανήγυρις). 11. +in mediam aream+ = _into the centre of the open space (of the stadium)_. 17. +Locrensesque omnes+, i.e. E. & W. Locris. 18. +Perrhaebos+, N. of Thessaly. +Achaeos Phthiotas+ = the Achaeans who inhabited Phthiotis (S.E. of Thessaly). 19-24. +Esse aliquam ... ingentis:+ in these words the Greeks express their astonishment and gratitude at the greatness of the boon conferred upon them.]
+The Freedom of Greece.+ ‘The Greeks believed with a childlike simplicity that the Romans really cared for their freedom, and that they had crossed the sea with no other object than to deliver Greece from a foreign yoke. . . . Flamininus was a skilful diplomatist, and particularly qualified to sift and settle the affairs of Greece; for he understood the Greek character, and was not inaccessible, like so many other Romans, to Greek views and opinions.’ --Ihne.
WAR WITH ANTIOCHUS OF SYRIA, 191-190 B.C.
A. _Battle of Thermopylae, 191 B.C. Victory due to Cato._
Acilius Glabrio consul adversus Antiochi regis aciem, quam is in Achaia pro angustiis Thermopylarum direxerat, iniquitatibus loci non irritus tantum, sed cum iactura qnoque repulsus esset, nisi circummissus ab eo Porcius Cato, qui tum, iam { 5} consularis, tribunus militum a populo factus in exercitu erat, deiectis iugis Callidromi mentis Aetolis, qui praesidio ea tenebant, super imminentem castris regiis collem a tergo subitus apparuisset: quo facto perturbatis Antiochi copiis utrimque irrupere Romani { 10} et fusis fugatisque castra ceperunt.
+Context.+ In 192 B.C. Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, accepted the invitation of the Aetolians, who, since the Peace of 196 B.C., had been snubbed by the Romans, to come to liberate Greece from the tyranny of Rome.