But  let  us  permit  Pausanias  to  speak  for  himself.  The
chief  community  of  Arcadia,  once  the  proud  metropolis  of
the  same,  was  then  mainly  in  ruins  (8,  33,  1).  But,  says
he,  "  I  marvelled  not,  knowing  that  the  daimonion  always
wills  to  enact  certain  things  subversive  in  their  nature,
and  that  Fortune  changes  alike  all  that  is  strong  and  all
that  is  weak.  ..."  And  in  the  celebrities  that  have  seen
desolation  in  his  time  he  even  includes  Delos :  "  Delos  in-
deed, if  you  subtract  those  who  arrive  from  time  to  time
from  the  Athenians  to  be  guards  of  the  sanctuary,  as  far
as  the  Delians  are  concerned,  is  desolate  of  human  beings.
.  .  ."It  was  the  time  when  Alexandria  and  Antioch  ut-
terly excelled.  Wretched  was  the  end  of  Kassander,  who
consistently  had  rooted  out  the  dynasty  of  Philip  and
Alexander  (9,  7,  2) :  "  for  he  was  filled  with  dropsy,  and
from  it  maggots  were  bred  in  him  while  he  was  living.  ..."

Philopoimen,  the  great  statesman  of  the  Achaian  league,
paid  the  penalty  for  his  pride  (8,  51,  5).  Sulla  once
carried  off  the  sacred-figure  (agalma)  of  Athena  in  the
little  hamlet  of  Alalkomenai  in  Boeotia:  "Him  who  had
wrought  such  deeds  of  insanity  on  Hellenic  communities
and  gods  of  the  Hellenes,  him  seized  a  distemper  the  most
joyless  of  all:  for  lice  broke  out  all  over  his  body,  and  his
former  seeming  felicity  changed  into  such  an  end  for  him;
but  the  sanctuary  at  Alalkomenai  was  neglected  thencefor-
ward inasmuch  as  it  had  been  deprived  of  the  goddess  "
(9,  33,  6).  Men  must  not  excessively  punish  their  fellows:
"envy-producing  somehow  always  on  the  part  of  the  gods
are  the  exceeding  measures  of  punishment "  (9,  17,  6).
