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166 FLAMININUS.- -FLAMINIUS.
donia to join the Romans in the impending war. accomplice in this attempt upon Hannibal is a stain:
The intrigues of the Aetolians, on the other hand, on his character, and was severely censured by
alienated several important places from the cause many of his contemporaries. He seems to have
of Rome. The arrival of Antiochus in Greece in- died either during or shortly before B. c. 174,
creased their number. Flamininus attended the for in that year his son celebrated funeral games
congress at Aegium, at which Syrian and Aetolian in his honour. (Plutarch, Flamininus; Liv. xxxi.
deputies likewise appeared. The Aetolians, as 4, 49, xxxii. 7, &c., xxxiii., xxxiv. 22, &c., xxxv.
usual, indulged in bitter invectives against the 23, &c., xxxvi. 31, &c., xxxvii. 58, xxxviii. 28,
Romans, and in personal attacks on Flamininus, xxxix. 51, 56; Polyb. xvii. 1, &c., xviii. 1, &c.,
and they demanded that the Achaeans should re- xxii. 15, xxiii. 2, xxiv. 3, &c.; Diod. Excerpt. de
main neutral; but Flamininus, now joined by Phi- Legat. iii. p. 619; Eutrop. iv. 1, &c.; Flor. ii. 7;
lopoemen, opposed this advice, and the Achaeans Paus. vii. 8; Appian, Mac. iv. 2, vi. vii. Syr. 2,
themselves, who had too much to win or to 11; Cic. Phil. v. 17, De Senect. 1, 12, in Verr.
lose, could not have looked with indifference at iv. 58, i. 21, pro MI/Iuren. 14, in Pison. 25, de Leg.
what was going on. Most of the allies remained Agr. i. 2; Schorn, Gesck. Griechenlands, p. 237,
faithful to Rome; and, at the request of Fla- &c.; Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece,'vol. viii.; Niemininus, troops were immediately sent to Peiraeeus buhr, Lect. on Rom. Hist. vol. i. p. 232, &c., ed.
and Chalcis to suppress the Syrian party in those L. Schmitz; Brandstgter, Die Gesck. des Aetol.
places. In the mean time, the war with Antiochus Landes, p. 413, &c.)
ended in Europe, in the battle of Thermopylae, 5. C. QUINTIus FLAMININUS, praetor peregriB. C. 191. Flamnininus still remained in Greece, in nus in B. C. 177. (Liv. xli. 12.)
the capacity of ambassador plenipotentiary, and 6. T. QUINTIus FLAMININUS, a son of No. 4,
exercising a sort of protectorate over Greece. exhibited, in B. c. 174, splendid gladiatorial games,
After the departure of Antiochus, the consul, and feasted the people for four days, in honour of
Acilius Glabrio, wanted to chastise Chalcis for the his father, who had died shortly before. In B. c.
homage it had paid to the foreign invader, but 167, he was one of the three ambassadors who led
Flamininus interfered: he soothed theanger of the back the Thracian hostages, which Cotys, the
consul, and saved the place. The war against the Thracian king, had offered to ransom. In the same
Aetolians now commenced; anud there again Fla- year he was elected augur, in the place of C. Claumininus used his influence in protecting the weaker dius, who had died. (Liv. xli. 43, xlv. 42, 44.)
party, although it is more than doubtful whether, 7. T. QUINTIUS FLAMININUS was consul in
on that occasion, he acted from a pure feeling of B. C. 150, with M'. Acilius Balbus. Cicero places
humanity or from ostentation. While the consul his dialogue " Cato," or "De Senectute," in this
was besieging Naupactus, Flamininus came from year, when Cato was 84 years old. In the conPeloponnesus into the Roman camp; and as soon sulship of T. Flamininus a temple of Pietas was
as the Aetolians saw him, they implored his pro- erected, on the spot of a prison in which a daughtection. He shed tears of compassion, and induced ter had given a remarkable example of piety'the consul to raise the siege. Anxious not to share towards her mother. The same site was subse-his protectorate in Greece with any one else, he quently occupied by the theatre of Marcellus.
directed the consul's attention to the increasing (Cic. de Senect. 5, ad Ait. xii. 5; Plin. H. N. vii.
power of Macedonia. About this time insurrec- 36.)
tions broke out in several parts of Peloponnesus; 8. T. QUINTIUS FLAMININUS was consul in
-and Flamininus agreed with the strategus of the B. C. 123, with Q. Metellus Balearicus. Cicero,
Achaeans to march against Sparta: he himself ac- who had seen and heard him in his early youthm,
companied the Achaeans into Laconia. But Phi- says that he spoke Latin with elegance, but that
lopoemen succeeded in restoring peace without any he was an illiterate man. In his consulship Carsevere measures. The Messenians refused to join thage became a Roman colony; though Livy and
-the Achaean league; and when the strategus ad- Plutarch place this restoration of Carthage in the
vanced with an army against Messene, Fla- year following, that is, in the second tribuneship
mininus, who was then staying at Chalcis, has- of C. Gracchus. (Cic. Brut. 28, 74, pro Dom. 53;
tened into. Messenia, whither lie was invited Eutrop. iv. 20; Oros. v. 12.) [L. S.]
by the people. *He again acted as mediator; FLAMI'NIUS. 1. C. FLAMINIUS, according
he made the Messenians join the Achaeans, but to the Capitoline fasti, the son of one C. Flaminius,
left them the means of defying their decrees. At who is otherwise unknown, was tribune of the
the same time, he obliged the Achaeans to people in B. c. 232; and, notwithstanding the most
give up to Rome the island of Zacynthus, which violent opposition of the senate and the optimates,
they had purchased, saying, that it was best he carried an agrarian law, ordaining that the Agesr
for the Achaean state to be compact, and limited Gallicus Picenus, which had recently been conto Peloponnesus. This opinion was true enough, quered, should be distributed viritirn among all the
but the Romans took care to sow the seeds of plebeians. According to Cicero (de Senect. 4) the
discord in Peloponnesus, or at least to keep them tribuneship of Flaminius and his agrarian law
alive where they existed. belong to the consulship of Sp. Carvilius and Q.
In B. C. 190 Flamininus returned to Rome, Fabius Maximus, i. e. B. c. 228, or four years later
and was appointed censor for the year following than the time stated by Polybius. (ii. 21.) But
with M. Claudius Marcellus. In B.C. 183 he Cicero's statement is improbable, for we know that
was sent as ambassador to Prusias of Bithynia, in B. c. 227 C. Flaminius was praetor; and the
who, *afraid of what he had done to offend the aristocratic party, which he had irreconcilably
Romans, offered to deliver up Hannibal, who had offended by his agrarian law, would surely never
taken refuge with him. But Hannibal pre- have suffered him to be elected praetor the very
vented the treachery by taking poison. The fact year after his tribuneship. Cicero therefore is
of Flamininus allcvi;ij bimhi et to be made an either mistaken, or we must have recourse to the