Born in Megalopolis in Greece, in 204 B.C.; died about 125;
celebrated as an historian; entered the service of the
Achæan League; taken to Rome about 169 as a political
prisoner, becoming a friend of Scipio the younger; later
engaged in settling the affairs of Achaia; went to Egypt in
181 as an ambassador of the Achæan League; of his history of
Rome in forty books, five only have been preserved
entire.[79]
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