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they had been guilty of, Xenocrates afterwards meeting the children of Lycurgus, "My sons," said he, "I am nobly re- paying your father for his kindness ; he has the praises of the whole people in return for it." But the returns which attended Titus Quintius and the Romans, for their benefi- cence to the Greeks, terminated not in empty praises only; for these proceedings gained them, deservedly, credit and confidence, and thereby power, among all na- tions, for many not only admitted the Roman commanders, but even sent and entreated to be under their protection ; neither was this done by popular governments alone, or by single cities ; but kings oppressed by kings, cast them- selves into these protecting hands. Insomuch that in a very short time (though perchance not without divine influence in it) all the world did homage to them. Titus himself thought more highly of his liberation of Greece than of any other of his actions, as appears by the inscrip- tion with which he dedicated some silver targets, together with his own shield, to Apollo at Delphi : — Te Spartan Tyndarids, twin sons of Jove, Who in swift horsemanship have placed your love, Titus, of great Eneas' race, leaves this In honor of the Uberty of Greece. He offered also to Apollo a golden crown, with this in- scription : — This golden crown upon thy locks divine, O blest Latona's son, was set to shine By the great captain of the ^nean name. Phoebus, grant the noble Titus fame ! The same event has twice occurred to the Greeks in the city of Corinth. Titus, then, and Nero again in our days, both at Corinth, and both alike at the celebration of the Isthmian games, permitted the Greeks to enjoy their own laws and liberty. The former (as has been