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When the ambassadors of the Spartan exiles arrived in Terms granted to the Messenians the Peloponnese from Rome with a letter from the Senate to the Achaeans, desiring that measures should be taken for their recall and restoration to their country, the Achaeans resolved to postpone the consideration of the question until their own ambassadors should return. After making this answer, they caused the agreement between themselves and the Messenians to be engraved on a tablet: granting them, among other favours, a three years’ remission of taxes, in order that the damage done to their territory should fall upon the Achaeans equally with the Messenians. The request of the Spartan exiles refused. But when Bippus and his colleagues arrived from Rome, and reported that the letter in regard to the exiles was not due to any strong feeling on the part of the Senate, but to the importunity of the exiles themselves, the Achaeans voted to make no change.
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Mount Haemus is close to the Pontus, the most extensive M. Haemus. Livy, 46, 21. and loftiest of the ranges in Thrace, which it divides into two nearly equal parts, from which a view of both seas may be obtained.From Strabo (vii. 5, 13), who adds: But this is not true, for the distance from the Adriatic is immense, and there are many obstacles in the way to obscure the view.
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In Crete there was the beginning of great troubles set Crete in B.C. 182. See bk. 22, ch. 19. in motion, if one should speak of a beginning of troubles in Crete: for owing to the persistency of civil wars and the acts of savagery practised against each other, beginning and end are much the same in Crete; and what appears to some people to be an incredible story is a spectacle of everyday occurrence there.
