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BCEOT1A. PERIOD XIV. CIRC. B.C. 197 146. 265
with the internal government of Boeotia, which yet
remained in the hands of the party opposed to Rome.
When, therefore, Antiochus the Great landed in Greece,
B.C. 192, the Boeotians were among the foremost to join
the coalition against Rome, but were once more compelled
to surrender on the defeat of Antiochus in the following
year.
Boeotia now became a prey to internal dissensions and
disorders of every description, and it became evident that
the old League was rapidly falling to pieces.
On the occasion of the rupture between Rome and
Perseus, the new king of Macedon, B c. 173, two at least
of the Boeotian cities, Haliartus and Coroneia, sided with
the latter, so also did Neon, Hippias, and Ismenias, one of
the Bceotarchs. But when the Roman envoy demanded
an explanation, the government of the confederacy repre-
sented what had occurred as merely the work of a faction.
The Romans, however, gladly seized the opportunity
which now offered of breaking up the League without
resorting to open force. A mere hint that it would best
appear which cities adhered to Rome and which to
Macedon if they would severally and separately declare
their decisions was all that was necessary. The federal
body immediately broke up into a number of helpless
communities, each anxious to obtain for itself the most
favourable terms. This was in B.C. 172. Henceforth we
hear little of Boeotian affairs until B.C. 146, when, after
the destruction of Corinth, the Boeotian confederacy,
which had practically ceased to exist B.C. 172, was legally
and formally dissolved. Some of the Boeotian cities, with
Pytheas, who had been elected Bceotarch, had joined the
Achseans in this final struggle, and Thebes was now
the demolition of her walls.
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