128

M. Porcius Cato 128

234. His birth 128

His early life 128

204. His Quaestorship 129

198. His Praetorship 129

195. His Consulship 129
Repeal of the Oppian Law 130

191. Cato serves in the battle of Thermopylae 130

Prosecution of the two Scipios 130

Haughty conduct of Scipio Africanus 130

Condemnation of Scipio Asiaticus 130

Prosecution of Scipio Africanus 130

He leaves Rome 131

188. His death 131

Death of Hannibal 132

184. Censorship of Cato 132

He studies Greek in his old age 132

His character 133

CHAPTER XIX.

THE THIRD MACEDONIAN, ACHAEAN, AND THIRD PUNIC WARS. B.C. 179-146.

179. Death of Philip and accession of Perseus 134

172. Murder of Eumenes, king of Pergamus 135

171-168. THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR--
168. Battle of Pydna 135
Defeat of Perseus by L. AEmilius Paullus 135

167. AEmilius Paullus punishes the Epirotes 135

His triumph 135

His domestic misfortunes 136

Haughty conduct of Rome in the East 136

Embassy to Antiochus Epiphanes 136

Treatment of Eumenes, king of Pergamus 136

Mean conduct of Prusias, king of Bythinia 136

Treatment of the Rhodians 136

167. One thousand Achaean