nd from a similar cause Greece was driven to
seek alliances which would protect her against him.

Rome was unwilling to undertake a new war, but the people were induced
to vote for one, on the representation that the only means of preventing
an invasion of Italy was to carry the war abroad.

This year (200) the Consul, Publius Sulpicius Galba, was sent with a
considerable force across the Adriatic. His campaign, and that of the
Consul Villius during the next year, were productive of no decisive
results, but in 198 the Consul TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMININUS, a man of
different calibre, conducted the war with vigor. He defeated Philip on
the Aous, drove him back to the pass of Tempe, and the next year utterly
defeated him at CYNOSCEPHALAE.

The king had drawn up his forces in two divisions. With the first he
broke through the line of the legions, which, however, closed in around
him with but little loss. The other division was attacked by the Romans,
while it was forming, and thoroughly discomfited. The victory of the
Romans was decisive.

About the same time the Achaeans captured CORINTH from Philip, and the
Rhodians defeated his troops in Caria.

Further resistance was impossible. Philip was left in possession of
Macedonia alone; he was deprived of all his dependencies in Greece,
Thrace, and Asia Minor, and was forbidden, as Carthage had been, to wage
war without Rome's consent.

The next year (196), at the Isthmian Games, the "freedom of Greece" was
proclaimed to the enthusiastic crowds, and two years later
Flamininus withdrew his troops from the so called "three fetters of
Greece,"--Chalcis, Demetrias, and Corinth,--and, urging the Greeks to
show themselves worthy of the gift of the Roman people, he returned home
to enjoy a well earned triumph.

The chief result of the second Macedonian war was, therefore, the firm
establishment of a ROMAN PROTECTORATE OVER GREECE AND EGYPT. The wedge
had been entered and the interference of Rome in Eastern affairs was
assured.

CHAPTER XVII. THE SYRIAN WAR.

Antiochus III. of Syria, who had proposed to share Egypt with Philip,
had been engaged for some time in a campaign in the East, and did not
hear of his ally's danger until too late to aid him. However, he
claimed for himself portions of Asia Minor and Thrace, which Philip had
previously held, and which Rome now declared free and independent. He
crossed the Hellespont into Thrace in 196, but did not dare to enter
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