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patr^;.
:d, that having been detained as prisoners in different parts of
Etruria, three hundred of the number, among whom was the historian
Polybius, returned to their own country. Instructed and exasperated by
this treatment, the Achasans resorted to defensive measures against the en-
croachments of Rome; but it was too late. They had been the means of
reducing to the bondage, which they were now about to endure in their
own persons, those who might with their aid have been able to preserve
from it both themselves and them. They now survived alone: the rest of
Greece was extinct. It was but a poor consolation, that when Greece
was politically defunct, the Romans inscribed upon its tomb the name of
AcHAIA.
At the north-west extremity of Achaia stands the town of Patras, the
ancient Patr-e, It overlooks a fertile plain, which is principally devoted
to the cultivation of the small grape which flourishes here in much greater
e than at Corinth, whence it derives its n
| The city enjoys great advantages, arising from its posi-
tion at the southern entrance of the Corinthian Gulf,
and from thus possessing ready means of communi-
cation with western Greece, the Islands of the Ionian Sea, and the shores of
Italy and Sicily. After the battle of Actium, Patras was to the Peloponnesus
what Nicopolis was to the continent of Greece; for on account of the qualifi-
cations of its site, it was chosen by Augustus as the spot to which he might
transplant colonists from different cities which were not so favourably placed
patr^;.
:d, that having been detained as prisoners in different parts of
Etruria, three hundred of the number, among whom was the historian
Polybius, returned to their own country. Instructed and exasperated by
this treatment, the Achasans resorted to defensive measures against the en-
croachments of Rome; but it was too late. They had been the means of
reducing to the bondage, which they were now about to endure in their
own persons, those who might with their aid have been able to preserve
from it both themselves and them. They now survived alone: the rest of
Greece was extinct. It was but a poor consolation, that when Greece
was politically defunct, the Romans inscribed upon its tomb the name of
AcHAIA.
At the north-west extremity of Achaia stands the town of Patras, the
ancient Patr-e, It overlooks a fertile plain, which is principally devoted
to the cultivation of the small grape which flourishes here in much greater
e than at Corinth, whence it derives its n
| The city enjoys great advantages, arising from its posi-
tion at the southern entrance of the Corinthian Gulf,
and from thus possessing ready means of communi-
cation with western Greece, the Islands of the Ionian Sea, and the shores of
Italy and Sicily. After the battle of Actium, Patras was to the Peloponnesus
what Nicopolis was to the continent of Greece; for on account of the qualifi-
cations of its site, it was chosen by Augustus as the spot to which he might
transplant colonists from different cities which were not so favourably placed