ng all the rights, as to liberty, of citizens
of Rome, yielding and praying to the commonwealth as head of the league,
and having in the conduct of all affairs appertaining to the common
cause, such aid of men and money as was particularly agreed to upon the
merit of the cause, and specified in their respective leagues, whence
such leagues came to be called equal or unequal accordingly.

"Provincial leagues were of different extension, according to the merit
and capacity of a conquered people; but they were all of one kind, for
every province was governed by Roman magistrates, as a praetor or a
proconsul, according to the dignity of the province, for the civil
administration and conduct of the provincial army, and a quaestor for
the gathering of the public revenue, from which magistrates a province
might appeal to Rome.

"For the better understanding of these particulars, I shall exemplify in
as many of them as is needful, and first in Macedon:

"The Macedonians were thrice conquered by the Romans, first under the
conduct of Titus Quintus Flaminius; secondly, under that of Lucius
AEmilius Paulus; and, thirdly under that of Quintus Caecilius Metellus,
thence called Macedonicus.

"For the first time Philip of Macedon, who (possessed of Acrocorinthus)
boasted no less than was true, that he had Greece in fetters, being
overcome by Flaminius, had his kingdom restored to him, upon condition
that he should immediately set all the cities which he held in Greece
and in Asia at liberty, and that he should not make war out of Macedon
but by leave of the Senate of Rome; which Philip (having no other way to
save anything) agreed should be done accordingly.

"The Grecians being at this time assembled at the isthmian games, where
the concourse was mighty great, a crier, appointed to the office by
Flaminius, was heard among them proclaiming all Greece to be free;
to which the people being amazed at so hopeless a thing, gave little
credit, till they received such testimony of the truth as put it past
all doubt, whereupon they fell immediately on running to the proconsul
with flowers and garlands, and such violent expressions of their
admiration and joy, as, if Flaminius, a young man, about thirty-three,
had not also been very strong, he must have died of no other death than
their kindness, while everyone striving to touch his hand, they bore him
up and down the field with an unruly throng, full of such ejaculations
as these: How is