Book 21
40
M. Fulvius took the quarter of the town The citadel of Same in Cephallenia taken by a night surprise, in which was the citadel by a night surprise, and introduced the Romans into the town.See Livy, 38, 28, 29. The fragment here seems to be that translated by Livy in ch. 29, Romani nocte per arcem, quam Cyatidem vocant (nam urbs in mare devexa in Occidentem vergit) muro superato in forum pervenerunt. The people of Same suddenly threw off the terms under which the rest of Cephallania had submitted and stood a four months’ siege.
41
The good and the expedient are seldom compatible, Philopoemen’s policy towards Sparta. See above, bk. 19. and rare indeed are those who can combine and reconcile them. For as a general rule we all know that the good shuns the principles of immediate profit, and profit those of the good. However, Philopoemen attempted this task, and succeeded in his aim. For it was a good thing to restore the captive exiles to Sparta; and it was an expedient thing to humble the Lacedaemonian state, and to punish those who had served as bodyguards to a tyrant. But seeing clearly that money is ever the support on which every dynasty rests, and having a clear head and the instincts of a ruler, he took measures to prevent the introduction into the town of money from outside. . . .
42
A fragment, arranged in Hultsch’s text as ch. 42, is too much mutilated to be translated with any approach to correctness.
