The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

exposed to invasion, “and he was reduced to accept
peace on such terms as the Romans thought proper
to dictate.”
“These, as usual, tended to cripple the power of
the vanquished party, and at the same time to
increase the reputation of the Romans, by
appearing more favorable to their allies than to
themselves.
“Philip was obliged to give up every Greek city
that he possessed beyond the limits of Macedonia,
both in Europe and in Asia; a stipulation which
deprived him of Thessaly, Achaia, Phthiotis,
Perrhæbia, and Magnesia, and particularly of the
three important towns of Corinth, Chalcis, and
Demetrias, which he used to call the fetters of
Greece.”[9]
In other words, Philip of Macedon lost all his
outlying dependencies; and this is just about what
happened to Spain at the treaty of Paris. Both alike
were stripped of by far the greater part of their
territory outside of the home land.
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