This year (200) the Consul, Publius Sulpicius Galba, was sent with a
considerable force across the Adriatic. His campaign, and that of the
Consul Villius during the next year, were productive of no decisive
results, but in 198 the Consul TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINÍNUS, a man of
different calibre, conducted the war with vigor. He defeated Philip on
the Aóus, drove him back to the pass of Tempe, and the next year
utterly defeated him at CYNOSCEPHALAE.

The king had drawn up his forces in two divisions. With the first he
broke through the line of the legions, which, however, closed in
around him with but little loss. The other division was attacked by
the Romans, while it was forming, and thoroughly discomfited. The
victory of the Romans was decisive.

About the same time the Achaeans captured CORINTH from Philip, and the
Rhodians defeated his troops in Caria.

Further resistance was impossible. Philip was left in possession of
Macedonia alone; he was deprived of all his dependencies in Greece,
Thrace, and Asia Minor, and was forbidden, as Carthage had been, to
wage war without Rome's consent.

The next year (196), at the Isthmian Games, the "freedom of Greece"
was proclaimed to the enthusiastic crowds, and two years later
Flamininus withdrew his troops from the so called "three fetters of
Greece,"--Chalcis, Demetrias, and Corinth,--and, urging the Greeks to
show themselves worthy of the gift of the Roman people, he returned
home to enjoy a well earned triumph.

The chief result of the second Macedonian war was, therefore, the firm