16.2
Diophanes, however, paid no heed to this advice, but invaded Laconia along with Titus Flamininus, and marched directly upon the city of Sparta. Incensed at this, Philopoemen ventured upon an act which was not lawful, nor even exactly just, but great and prompted by a great spirit. He went on past them into Sparta, and, private man though he was, shut out therefrom both the general of the Achaean league and the Roman consul, put an end to the disorders in the city, and brought the Lacedaemonians back again into the league, as they were at the outset.
16.3
At a later time, however, when he had some ground for accusation against the Lacedaemonians, as general of the leaguePhilopoemen was for the sixth time general in 188 B.C. Philopoemen brought back its exiles to the city, and put to death eighty Spartans, according to Polybius,In a passage not extant. Livy gives the same number (xxxviii. 33). or according to Aristocrates, three hundred and fifty.
16.4
He also tore down the walls of the city, and cutting off a large part of its territory, annexed it to Megalopolis; moreover, in the case of those who had been made citizens of Sparta by the tyrants, he removed them all into Achaia, with the exception of three thousand who would not obey him and were unwilling to go away from Sparta. These he sold into slavery, and then, as if in mockery of their fate, erected a portico in Megalopolis with the money which they brought.
