Description of Greece

​He indeed, acquiring good fame for the Athenians and for himself, saved those whom he commanded and died himself voluntarily; but Diaeus, having ruined the Achaeans, came to the Megalopolitans as a messenger of the impending evils, and having killed his wife with his own hand, so that she indeed might not become a captive, died by drinking poison, displaying a greed for money similar to that of Menalcidas, and also a similar cowardice in the face of death.

​But those of the Achaeans who had escaped to Corinth after the battle fled immediately under cover of night; and most of the Corinthians themselves also fled. Mummius for the moment, although the gates were open, refrained from entering Corinth, suspecting that some ambush was lying in wait within the wall; but on the third day after the battle he took Corinth by storm and burned it.

​Of those who were left behind, the Romans slaughtered the greater part, and Mummius sold the women and children; he also sold the slaves, as many of those who had been set free and had fought with the Achaeans as had not died immediately by the action of the war. Of the votive offerings and other ornaments, those which were most worthy of wonder were carried away, but those not of equal value Mummius gave to Philopoemen, the general from Attalus; and there were Corinthian spoils for the Pergamenians even down to my time.

​Of the cities that had fought against the Romans, Mummius demolished the walls and took away their arms even before advisers were sent from Rome; but when those who were to counsel with him arrived, then he put down democracies and established magistrates from property qualifications; and a tribute was imposed on Greece, and those who had money were forbidden to acquire property abroad; and the councils of each nation—both that of the Achaeans and those in Phocis or Boeotia or elsewhere in Greece—were all likewise dissolved.

​But not many years later the Romans turned to pity for Greece, and they restored to each of them their ancient councils and the right to acquire property abroad, and they remitted the fines which Mummius had imposed on them; for he had ordered the Boeotians to pay a hundred talents to the Heracleots and Euboeans, and the Achaeans two hundred to the Lacedaemonians. Of these things then the Greeks obtained a remission from the Romans, but a governor was still sent even down to my time; and the Romans call him the governor not of Greece, but of Achaea, because they subdued the Greeks through the Achaeans, who were then at the head of the Greek nation. This war came to an end when Antitheus was archon at Athens, in the hundred and sixtieth Olympiad, which Diodorus of Sicyon won.