Note 20 — INTRODUCTION
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
The decree was brought into the Peloponnese by C. Popilius and Cn. Octavius in B.C. 171. See Livy, 43, 17, ne quis ullam rem in bellum magistratibus Romanis conferret præter quam quod Senatus censuisset. Cp. Polyb. 28, 3.