. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ceman andnurse of the JEgean world had been thrust upon Rome becauseshe was strong and just. Even that was a terrific and bewil-dering responsibility. Every day fresh embassies came toRome to complain of neighbours and solicit assistance—cleverGreeks who would talk your head off with sophistries, andrich Asiatics who would corrupt you with bribes and blandish-ments. There was no one within reach who would stand upand fight squarely. In the West there were Provinces, inthe East allies; it was difficult to know which gave
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ceman andnurse of the JEgean world had been thrust upon Rome becauseshe was strong and just. Even that was a terrific and bewil-dering responsibility. Every day fresh embassies came toRome to complain of neighbours and solicit assistance—cleverGreeks who would talk your head off with sophistries, andrich Asiatics who would corrupt you with bribes and blandish-ments. There was no one within reach who would stand upand fight squarely. In the West there were Provinces, inthe East allies; it was difficult to know which gave mosttrouble. So we come to the next stage, when the Romans began toannex and subjugate. It was the only way. In Macedonia,after Philip had been conquered and pardoned, Perseus aroseand rebelled. After Perseus had been crushed and his king-dom dismembered, a bastard pretender arose and headed arevolt, joined by the Greeks. Obviously there was nothingfor it but to round off the business by sending a permanentarmy under a permanent general to Macedonia, and to call it56. Plate lo. BRONZE STATUE OF ( THE ARRINGATORE ) [Z^. 56 CONQUEST his province. Not even yet did the Romans dream ofmaking cities Hke Athens her subjects. These free cities,however, needed a sharp lesson ; and Corinth, as an almostimpregnable fortress which had been a centre of Achaeanmischief, was selected for destruction and destroyed in146 In the same year came the end of Carthage. During thelast fifty years there had been incessant trouble there. Romehad left Carthage prostrate before her dangerous Africanenemies, and refused all her appeals to be allowed to defendherself. All the time Carthage was undoubtedly recoveringfinancially from her defeat, in spite of her large annual sight moved the fears and jealousy of the Romans. Itwas not sufficient to have ordered the expulsion of Romans who had grown up under the shadow of thegreat Punic War had sucked in hate an
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