Our Own Tiberius and His Empire. "In the spring of the year 176 before Christ [that is about a quarter of a century before Greece was made a Roman province]," writes Peter Bender, "all of the notables of Greece assembled at Corinth in order to hear what Rome had decided for them. After a century and a half of oppression of the Greeks by the Macedonians, the Romans had beaten Philip V and had made him renounce all his possessions in Greece. But all their experience suggested that the Greeks were merely exchanging one master for another."
"At the sound of a trumpet, the herald of the assembly imposed silence and read the message from the senate: 'We give you liberty and administrative independence; there will be no occupation and no obligation to pay tribute.'" [LewRockwell.com]
That certainly sounds familiar. But then, nobody has ever accused the Crusaders of originality.
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