26. It was in the natural order of things that the independence of Greece, and more especially that of the Achaean league, should fall with Perseus. The political _inquisition_ of the Roman commissaries not only visited with punishment the declared partizans of Macedonia; but even to have stood neutral was a crime that incurred suspicion. Rome, however, amid the rising hatred, did not deem herself secure until by one blow she had rid herself of all opponents of any importance. Above a thousand of the most eminent of the Achaeans were summoned to Rome to justify themselves, and there detained seventeen years in prison without a hearing. While at the head of the league, stood the man who had delivered them up, Callicrates, (_d._ 150.) a wretch who could, unmoved, hear "the very boys in the streets taunt him with treachery."--A more tranquil period, it is true, now ensued for Greece, but it was the result of very obvious causes. 27. The ultimate lot both of Macedon and was decided by the system now adopted at Rome, that of converting the previous dependence of nations into formal subjection. The insurrection of Andriscus in Macedonia, an individual who pretended to be the son of Perseus, was quelled by Metellus, the country being constituted a Roman province; two years afterwards, at the sack of Corinth, vanished the last glimmer of Grecian freedom. The last war of the Achaeans arose out of certain quarrels with Sparta, 150, fomented by Diaeus, Critolaus, and Damocritus, who had returned bitterly enraged from the Roman prison; in these disputes Rome interfered, with the design of wholly dissolving the Achaean league. The first pretext that offered for executing this scheme was the ill-treatment of the Roman ambassadors at Corinth, 148; war, however, still raging with Carthage and Andriscus, the Romans preserved for the present a peaceful tone. But the party of Diaeus and Critolaus would have war; the plenipotentiaries of Metellus were again insulted, and the Achaeans declared war against Sparta and Rome. In the very same year they were routed by Metellus, and their leader Critolaus fell in the engagement; Metellus was replaced in the command by Mummius, who defeated Diaeus the successor of Critolaus, took Corinth and razed it to the ground, 146. The consequence was, that Greece, under the name of Achaia, became a Roman province, although to a few cities, such as Athens, for instance, some shadow of freedom was still left. IV. _History of some smaller or more distant Kingdoms and States erected out of the Macedonian monarchy._