at once to Chalkis, and then, taking his bride, his treasure, and his friends with him, set sail for Asia.  Manius at once marched upon Chalkis in a rage, but Flaminius accompanied him, and by his entreaties at length calmed and pacified him.  The people of Chalkis, after this narrow escape, dedicated the largest and most magnificent of all their public buildings to Titus, the inscriptions on which may be read even at the present day.  “The people dedicate this gymnasium to Herakles and to Titus.”  And on the other side of the road we read “The people dedicate the Delphinium to Apollo and to Titus.”  Moreover even in our own times a priest of Titus is chosen by show of hands, who offers sacrifice to him.  After the libations they sing a specially-written poem, too long for quotation from which we extract the following verses:—­

                   “Sing, maidens, sing,
    Of Rome’s good faith that keeps its oath,
    And gentle Titus full of truth,
    Our city’s saviour, Titus and Apollo sing.”

XVII.  He also received honours from the Greeks at large, and that which gives reality to honours, great goodwill from all for his kindly disposition.  For though indeed he had some slight differences with Philopoemen, and again with Diophanes when chief of the Achaean league, he was not rancorous, and never acted under the impulse of anger, but soon laid aside his displeasure.  He was harsh to no one, but was thought by most men to be clever and witty, and the pleasantest of companions.  When the Achaeans were endeavouring to gain for themselves the island of Zakynthus, he discouraged their enterprise by saying that if they proceeded so far from Peloponnesus they would be in the same danger as the tortoise when he stretches his head out beyond his shell.

When Philip first met him to discuss terms of peace, and observed that Titus had come with a large suite, while he was alone, Titus answered, “You by your own act have made yourself lonely, by having killed all your friends and relations.”  Once at Rome Deinokrates the Messenian got drunk and danced in women’s clothes, and on the next day begged Titus to assist him in his design of detaching Messenia from the Achaean league.  Titus answered that he would consider the matter, but that he wondered that a man engaged in such important designs should sing and dance over his wine.  When the ambassadors of Antiochus were telling the Achaeans the number of the king’s army and were enumerating the various forces of which it was composed under various designations, Titus remarked that when dining with his host he had been surprised at the variety of meats, and had expressed his wonder as to how he had been able to obtain so many different kinds; but his host informed him that it was all nothing more than pork disguised by various sauces and cooked in various ways.  “So now,” continued he, “men of Achaea, do not be alarmed at the power of Antiochus when you hear these catalogues of spearmen and lance-bearers and foot-guards; for they are all nothing more than Syrians disguised with different kind of arms.”