Having vanquished Philip in battle, 1 he proclaimed at the Isthmian games that henceforth he left the Greeks free and independent. 2 Whereupon, all the Romans who had been taken captive in the days of Hannibal and were the slaves of Greek masters the Greeks purchased from their owners at twenty pounds for each man, and gave them as a present to Quintius; and these followed him in his triumphal procession wearing felt caps on their heads as is the custom for slaves that have been emancipated. 3 [p. 171]
1 At Cynoscephalae in 197 B.C.: see Plutarch's Life of Flamininus, chap. viii. (372 F); Polybius, xviii. 20-27; Livy, xxxiii. 7-10.
2 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Flamininus, chap. x. (374 D); Livy, xxxiii. 32.
3 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Flamininus, chap. xiii. (376 F); Livy, xxxiv. 52; Valerius Maximus, v. 2. 6.