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Rome and the Hellenistic World - Erich S. Gruen: The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome. 2 vols. Pp. x + 356, 406. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984. £48.
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1 War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327–70 B.C.: see my review in CR n.s. 30 (1980), 86–8.
2 Among the few clear mistakes (as distinct from matters where genuine disagreement occurs) I draw attention to p. 143, where Livy 26.34.13 liberos esse iusserunt Ha ut nemo eorum ciuis Romanus aut Latini nominis esset is translated as ‘ordered them “to be free’: i.e. that none would obtain Roman citizenship or Latin privileges’, and p. 298, where Livy 34.35.4 publicumue aut priuatum refers to Argive, not Spartan slaves. G. has occasional trouble with proper names: the Atintanes (correct in vol. 2 and the index) appear as Atintates on p. 17, and Atintani on pp. 56 and 78; on p. 448 Cremaste appears as Chremaste.
3 At 40.2.7 and 40.20.1 Livy translates Polybius'⋯πισκεφομ⋯νους by uisendas and cognoscerent statuerentque respectively.
4 Villius at Magnesia (Livy 35.39.7).
5 See now my note in Gerión 2 (1984), 151–153.Google Scholar
6 Historia 18 (1969), 49ff.
7 G. most implausibly doubts whether Macedonia had regular annual governors after the defeat of Andriscus.
8 A review will appear in the next issue of this journal.
9 See my review of Harris (op. cit. n. 1), p. 87.
10 Although there are sporadic references to my Commentary on Livy, books XXXIV–XXXVII (1981), it clearly appeared too late for G. to make systematic use of it. He thus takes no account of my objections to Badian's approach, and in particular he is unaware of my argument that the comitia voted for war before news of the Delium incident arrived (accepted by Derow, , JRS 74 [1984[, 233).Google Scholar
11 Though I fail to see that in accepting the assurances brought by Demetrius in 183, the senate was conniving at Philip's failure to carry out previous instructions.
12 I should like to register a protest at the quotation of favourable opinions of a book on the dust jacket at the time of its first publication. I can only assume that the statements by Africa and Walbank were made when refereeing the book for the publisher.
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