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Destruction of Corinth 395
and fainting under their wounds, yet resisted bravely
till
1,000 picked men of the Romans took them in flank,
and so turned the battle into a complete rout of the
Achaeans. And had Diaeus been bold enough to hurry Diaeus had
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into Corinth after the battle, and to receive within its critolaus.
walls the runaways from the fight and shut himself up
there, the Achsans might have obtained better terms from
Mummius, if the war had been lengthened out by a siege.
But as it was, when the Achaeans gave way before the
Romans, Diaeus fled for MegalopoHs. . . . Diaeus after
ruining the Achaeans announced to the people of Megalopolis
their impending ruin, and after slaying his wife with
his own hand that she might not become a captive, took
poison and so died. . . .
And most of those that were left in the city were slain The sack
by the Romans, and the women and children were sold by
Mummius, as also were the slaves who had been manumitted
and had fought on the side of
the Achaeans, and
had not been killed in action. And the most wonderful
of the votive offerings and other ornaments he carried
off to Rome, and those of less value he gave to Philopoemen,
the general of Attains' troops, and these spoils from
Corinth were in my time at Pergamum. And Mummius
razed the walls of all the cities which had fought against
the Romans, and took away their arms, before any advisers
were sent out to him from Rome. And when they
arrived, then he put dowTi all democracies, and appointed
chief-magistrates according to property qualifications.
Corinth.
And taxes were laid upon Greece, and those who had 4"^*^^*'
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money were forbidden to have land over the borders,
and all the general meetings were put down altogether,
as those in Achaia, or Phocis, or Boeotia, or any other part
of Greece.
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World, 393 I.