Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . resolved,therefore, to compass his death before the Achaeanscould take action to save him. So, when darkness hadfallen and the people had gone away from about thedungeon, he caused it to be opened. Then he sent inone of his servants bearing a cup of poison, and orderedhim not to leave the place until Philopoemen hadtaken the fatal draught. The servant found thecaptive lying down wrapped in his cloak. He wasnot asleep, however, for sadness and vexation kept himawake. When he saw the light and a man standingby him mth the
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . resolved,therefore, to compass his death before the Achaeanscould take action to save him. So, when darkness hadfallen and the people had gone away from about thedungeon, he caused it to be opened. Then he sent inone of his servants bearing a cup of poison, and orderedhim not to leave the place until Philopoemen hadtaken the fatal draught. The servant found thecaptive lying down wrapped in his cloak. He wasnot asleep, however, for sadness and vexation kept himawake. When he saw the light and a man standingby him mth the draught of poison, he raised himselfup as well as his weakness would allow and, taking theproffered cup, asked for news of his cavalry. He wastold that they had almost all escaped, whereupon,nodding his head in sign of gladness, he said, Thoubringest good tidings, and we are not unfortunate inall respects. Then, without another word and -svithouta sigh, he drank the poison and again lay down. Solow had he been brought by weakness that he diedalmost without a PHILOPCEMEN IN PRISON. PHILOPCEMEN 167 All Achaia was filled with grief at the news of hisdeath. The youth and the delegates of the differenttowns at once went to Megalopolis, and determined totake vengeance against the town of Messene. Havingchosen a general, they entered its territories, and soravaged the country that the Messenians were driven toopen the gates of the city. Before the avengers entered,Dinocrates and those citizens who had voted for puttingPhilopocmen to death, forestalled their vengeance bykilling themselves. Those who had voted for puttinghim to the torture suffered a worse fate, for they werecarried off to be put to a more painful and shamefuldeath. The remains of Philopcemen were burnt by hiscountrymen, and the ashes enclosed in an um. Then,in ordered march and with funeral solemnities, thearmy returned to MegalopoHs. First came the infantry,wearing crowns of victory and dragging along thef
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