AFFAIRS IN GREECE
[13.] I have already described the deliberate policy of Nabis, tyrant of the Lacedaemonians; how he drove the citizens into exile,The tyranny of Nabis. See 13, 6-8. freed the slaves, and gave them the wives and daughters of their masters. How also, by opening his kingdom as a kind of inviolable sanctuary for all who fled from their own countries, he collected a number of bad characters in Sparta. I will now proceed to tell how in the same period,B.C. 202-201. being in alliance with Aetolians, Eleans, and Messenians, and being bound by oaths and treaties to support one and all of those peoples in case of any one attacking them, he yet in utter contempt of these obligations determined to make a treacherous attack on Messene....