g the Greeks as
to the sincerity of the Romans in their dealings with them. Flamininus,
however, insisted upon immediate compliance with the terms of the
peace.... In this summer, the Isthmian games were celebrated at Corinth,
and thousands from all parts of Greece flocked thither. Flamininus,
accompanied by the ten commissioners, entered the assembly, and, at his
command, a herald, in name of the Roman Senate, proclaimed the freedom
and independence of Greece. The joy and enthusiasm at this unexpected
declaration was beyond all description: the throngs of people that
crowded around Flamininus to catch a sight of their liberator or touch
his garment were so enormous, that even his life was endangered."
(Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography_: Art. Flamininus, No.
4.)--ED.

VARIANTS:

[1] 1837.

And to the Concourse of the Isthmian Games
He, by his Herald's voice, aloud proclaims 1815.

[2] 1815.

... is ... 1838.

The text of 1840 returns to that of 1815.

[3] 1815.

Drop ... 1838.

The text of 1840 returns to that of 1815.

[4] 1837.

... at the sound!
--A melancholy Echo of that noise
Doth sometimes hang on musing Fancy's ear: 1815.

[5] 1815.

... word ... 1827.

The text of 1837 returns to that of 1815.

UPON THE SAME EVENT

Composed (probably) 1810.--Published 1815

When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn
The tidings passed of servitude repealed,
And of that joy which shook the Isthmian Field,
The rough Aetolians smiled with bitter scorn.
"'Tis known," cried they, "that he, who would adorn
His envied temples with the Isthmian crown, 6
Must either win, through effort of his own,
The prize, or be content to see it worn
By more deserving brows.--Yet so ye prop,
Sons of the brave who fought at Marathon, 10
Your feeble spirits! Greece her head hath bowed,
As if the wreath of liberty thereon
Would fix itself as smoothly as a cloud,
Which, at Jove's will, descends on Pelion's top."

The Aetolians were the only Greeks that entertained suspicion of the
Roman designs from the first. When Flamininus was wintering in Phocis in
196, and an insurrection broke out at Op