7. They took him alive and obliged him and the kings who succeeded him to pay a heavy tribute, to give hostages and to cede
8. Lycia, Mysia, and Lydia from among their best provinces. The Romans took these from him and gave them to King Eumenes.
9. When the Greeks planned to come and destroy them,
10. the Romans discovered it, and sent against the Greeks a single general who made war on them. Many were wounded and fell, and the Romans took their wives and children captive. They plundered them, took possession of their land, tore down their strongholds and reduced them to slavery even to this day.
11. All the other kingdoms and islands that had ever opposed them they destroyed and enslaved; with their friends, however, and those who relied on them, they maintained friendship.
12. They subjugated kings both near and far, and all who heard of their fame were afraid of them.
13. Those whom they wish to help and to make kings, they make kings; and those whom they wish, they depose; and they were greatly exalted.
14. Yet with all this, none of them put on a diadem or wore purple as a display of grandeur.
15. But they made for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty men took counsel, deliberating on all that concerned the people and their well-being.