Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45
Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

32. After the interruption due to these investigations of other [2??] peoples, the assembly of the Macedonians was again convened. Concerning the [p. 359]constitution of Macedonia it was announced that¹ [3??] senators, whom they call synhedri, were to be chosen, by whose advice affairs of state² were to be conducted. [4] The names were read of the Macedonian leaders who, it had been decided, were to precede the consul on the way to Italy with their sons of over fifteen years of age. [5] This ordinance, cruel at first glance, soon was seen by the commons of Macedonia to have been enacted in the interests of their freedom. [6] For the names were those of the king's friends and the wearers of the purple, of commanders of armies, of officers in command of ships and garrisons-men accustomed to being humble slaves of the king, but haughty tyrants toward others. [7] Some were exceedingly rich, others equalled in expenditure those whose fortunes they could not match; [8] all of them used the diet and garments of the court, none had the temperament of a citizen, or would endure the rule of law and the give-and-take of free men. [9] All, therefore, who had held some office under the king, even those who had served as ambassadors, were ordered to leave Macedonia and travel to Italy; death was the penalty announced for disobedience to this order. [10] Paulus laid down laws for Macedonia with such care as to seem to be giving them not to conquered enemies, but to well-deserving allies —laws [11] which not even experience over along period, the one best amender of legislation, could prove faulty in actual use.³