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PERIOD XIV. CIRC. B.C. 197146.
In the wars which ensued, B.C. 214 197, between the
Romans and Philip, the Boeotians were among the allies
of the latter; but when Flamininus, in B.C. 197, made
himself master of Thebes by stratagem, a decree was
carried, without a single dissentient voice, of alliance with
Rome, in a general assembly of the Boeotians, convoked
by the Bceotarch Antiphilus the day after the entry of
Flamininus into the city.
Notwithstanding this nominal alliance, a number of
Bosotians fought on Philip's side at the battle of CynoscephaloD
under the command of Brachyllas, who was taken
prisoner on that occasion, but released by Flamininus soon
afterwards. Brachyllas was immediately elected archon
of the Boaotian League by his fellow-countrymen, who
thus openly displayed their Macedonian tendencies. Not
long after, Brachyllas was assassinated with the connivance
of Flamininus, which so incensed the Boeotians
that they wreaked their vengeance on Rome by privately
murdering about 500 Roman soldiers as they passed either
singly or in small bodies through Bosotia.
Flamininus next laid siege (B.C. 196) to the cities of
Acraephium and Coroneia, which he supposed to be chiefly
responsible for the murders which had been committed,
and all Boeotia became again subject to Rome, being condemned
also to pay a fine of thirty talents. The Romans
nevertheless still abstained from any active interference