Book 39
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Owing to the popular reverence for the memory of Philopoemen, they did not take down the statues of him in the various cities. So true is it, as it seems to me, that every genuine act of virtue produces in the mind of those who benefit by it an affection which it is difficult to efface. . . .
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One might fairly, therefore, use the common saying: He has been foiled not at the door, but in the road. . . .Seems to mean he lost before he began, before he got even at the threshold of his enterprise. There is nothing to show to what the fragment refers.
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There were many statues of Philopoemen, and manyStatues of Philopoemen. erections in his honour, voted by the several cities; and a Roman at the time of the disaster which befell Greece at Corinth, wished to abolish them all and to formally indict him, laying an information against him, as though he were still alive, as an enemy and illwisher to Rome. But after a discussion, in which Polybius spoke against this sycophant, neither Mummius nor the commissioners would consent to abolish the honours of an illustrious man. . . .
