Plutarch's Lives

Nabis

Family: Lacedaemon · Role: tyrant · First appears: Philopoemen

Life events

  • Titus Quintius Flamininus made peace with Nabis, leaving Sparta under slavery.(Flamininus · 📍 Sparta)
    • With: Titus Quintius Flamininus
    • “For when he had an opportunity of taking him, he purposely let it slip, and struck up a peace with him, leaving Sparta to bewail an unworthy slavery;”
  • Philopoemen restored the Messenians’ liberty and delivered their city from Nabis.(Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus)
    • With: Philopoemen
    • “He was a private citizen when he restored the Messenians to their liberty, and delivered their city from Nabis;”

Philopoemen

  • enemies with Philopoemen “Nabis, hearing of his coming, though his army quartered within the town, thought it not convenient to stay; but stealing out of the furthest gate with his men, marched away with all the speed he could, thinking himself a happy man if he could get off with safety.”

Flamininus

  • enemies with Titus Quintius Flamininus “Titus now engaged in a most gallant and just war upon Nabis, that most profligate and lawless tyrant of the Lacedaemonians”

Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus

  • enemies with Philopoemen “He was a private citizen when he restored the Messenians to their liberty, and delivered their city from Nabis;”

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