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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · tiberius gracchus · straits of messina · senate debates pursuit · roman morals · rhodians and education · rhodian dignity · public finance and debt · pontic salt-fish · extravagant spending · eumenes endowment · education and the training of the young
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“No one was likely to make any inquiry for Demetrius or those who had gone with him.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · observation
Polybius criticizes the Rhodians for funding teachers from public money: after receiving a corn endowment from Eumenes, they use its interest for schooling rather than relying on private resources.
[Sidenote: Commissioners appointed for Greece and Asia, B.C. 162.] +23.+ At Rome, during the whole of the following day, no one was likely to make any inquiry for Demetrius or those who had gone with him. For those of his household who stayed in the city supposed him to have gone to Cerceii; and those at Anagnia were expecting him to come there too. The flight from Rome, therefore, was entirely unremarked; until one…