. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. hostilities was, that the Corinthians had insultedsome Eoman legates. The Achasans constituted Critolaus their general, who, with hisallies, the Boeotians and Chalcidians, was defeated by Metellus at Thermopyls, andthen put an end to his life by poison. Diaeus was elected in his stead, who, thefollowing year ( 14G), was defeated by Mummius at the Isthmus, when Corinthwas taken and utterly destroyed,^ and Achaia became a Eoman province. Corinth = Strabo, viii. 6 (p. 213, Tauchnitz); and seePlin. N. H. iv. .5.«= See Livy, 111. 52. As to the political stat
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. hostilities was, that the Corinthians had insultedsome Eoman legates. The Achasans constituted Critolaus their general, who, with hisallies, the Boeotians and Chalcidians, was defeated by Metellus at Thermopyls, andthen put an end to his life by poison. Diaeus was elected in his stead, who, thefollowing year ( 14G), was defeated by Mummius at the Isthmus, when Corinthwas taken and utterly destroyed,^ and Achaia became a Eoman province. Corinth = Strabo, viii. 6 (p. 213, Tauchnitz); and seePlin. N. H. iv. .5.«= See Livy, 111. 52. As to the political state of Achaia from thistime, see Pausan. Achaic. vii. 16, 6. Chap. XII.] .S7. PAUL AT CORISTH. [ 51] lay in ruins for a century, and then Julius Caesar founded it anew, and sent thither aRoman colony, consisting principally of freedmen,* among whom were great num-bers of the Jewish race. The city, when Paul arrived, was still governed as a Eomaiicolony, as appears from its coins, for they are stamped with the names of its dnniii-. Fig. 13V.—Com of ( (ib>: Head of Claudius wilh the legend, Claud. Cwsar Aug. —/;ei. The Acrocorinttius with the Temple of Venus on the summit,and the legend, Luscino Octavlo Iter, iivir. Cor. (Luscinus and Octavius, Duumvirs for the second lime. Corinth). viri, the peculiar designation of the two chief magistrates in the colonies, and corre-sponding to the two consuls at Eome. This constitution continued during the successivereigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.° Corinth, from its extra-ordinary natural advantages, very soon recovered itself after its colonisation and roseto a wonderful prosperity. In the time of Augustus, Achaia (that is, Greece, as opposed to Macedonia,) wasallotted to the Senate and ruled by proconsuls; but under Tiberius it was trans-ferred to the Emperor, and subject to In the fourth year of Claudius( 44) it was restored to the Senate, and became proconsular.* Under Nero, who
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