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Both warred with Greece; but here the difference see: That brought a yoke this gives us liberty. He also wrote the following sarcastic epigram on the Macedonians of Philip's army who were slain at Cynocephalae: Unmourned, unburied, passenger, we lie, Three myriad sons of fruitful Thessaly, In this wide field of monumental clay.
Philip is defeated by the proconsul Flaminius at Cynocephalae, 198; and begs for peace. The Macedonian influence is now completely destroyed in Greece, and the Roman established in its stead, though Rome nominally acknowledged the independence of the Greek cities. Rome makes war upon Antiochus, king of Syria.
The Phalanx, therefore, was terrible, the constituent parts of it imbecile; and the Battle of Cynocephalae finally demonstrated its inferiority, for the various possible exigencies of battle, to the conquering Legion.
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