. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. after asort of mock trial, he was executed. His fate was avenged byLycortas, the commander of the Achaean cavalry, the father of thehistorian Polybins. In 179 Philip died, and was succeeded by his son Perseus,the last monarch of Macedonia. The latter years of the reign ofPhilip had been spent in preparations for a renewal of the war,which he foresaw to be inevitable; yet a period of seven yearselapsed after the accession of Perseus before the mutual enmity ofthe two powers broke out into open hostilities. The wa
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. after asort of mock trial, he was executed. His fate was avenged byLycortas, the commander of the Achaean cavalry, the father of thehistorian Polybins. In 179 Philip died, and was succeeded by his son Perseus,the last monarch of Macedonia. The latter years of the reign ofPhilip had been spent in preparations for a renewal of the war,which he foresaw to be inevitable; yet a period of seven yearselapsed after the accession of Perseus before the mutual enmity ofthe two powers broke out into open hostilities. The war wasprotracted three years without any decisive result; but wasbrought to a conclusion in 168 by the consul L. ^EmiliusPaulus, who defeated Perseus with great loss near Pydna. Perseuswas carried to Eome to adorn the triumph of Paulus (167), and waspermitted to spend the remainder of his life in a sort of honourablecaptivity at Alba. Such was the end of the Macedonian empire,which was now divided into four districts, each under the juris-diction of an oligarchical Coin of Perseus, king of Hacedonia The Eoman commissioners deputed to arrange the affairs of-Macedonia did not confine their attention to that province, butevinced then design of bringing all Greece under the Eomansway. In these views they were assisted by various despots andtraitors in different Grecian cities, and especially by Callicrates. aman of great influence among the Achaeans, and who for manyyears lent himself as the base tool of the Eomans to effect theenslavement of his country. After the fall of Macedonia, Calli-crates denounced more than a thousand leading Achaeans whohad favoured the cause of Perseus. These, among whom wasPolybins the historian, were apprehended and sent to Eome fortrial. A still harder fate was experienced by iEtolia, Bceotia,Acarnania, and Epirus. In the last-named country, especially, no 146. GREECE A ROMAN PROVINCE. 221 fewer than seventy of the principal towns were a
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