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COMPARISON OF PHILOPCKMEN WITH FLAMmiNDS. First, then, as for the greatness of the benefits which Titus confen-ed on Greece, neither Philopoemen, nor many braver men than he, can make good the pai'allel. They were Greeks fighting against Greeks, but Titus, a stranger to Greece, fought for her. And at the very" time when Philopoemen went over into Crete, destitute of means to succor his besieged countrymen, Titus, by a defeat given to PhUip in the heart of Greece, set them and their cities free. Again, if we examine the battles they fought, Philopoemen, whilst he was the Achoeans' general, slew more Greeks than Titus, in aiding the Greeks, slew Macedonians. As to their failings, ambition was Titus's weak side, and obstinacy Philopoemen's ; in the former, anger was easily kindled, in the latter, it was as hardly quenched. Titus reserved to Philip the royal dignity ; he pardoned the ^tolians, and stood their friend ; but Philopoemen, exasperated against his country, deprived it of its supremacy over the adjacent villages. Titus was ever constant to those he had once befriended, the other, upon any offence, as prone to cancel kindnesses. He who had once been a benefactor to the Lacedaemonians, after- wards laid their walls level with the ground, wasted their country, and in the end changed and destroyed the whole frame of their government. He seems, in truth, to have