Titns Quintius Flamininus, a Roman general, born about 230 B. C, died about 175. He was elected consul in 198, and undertook the conduct of the war against Philip, king of Macedon. By pretending that his object was to remove from Greece the Macedonian yoke, he detached many of the Greek states from Philip, and defeated him at Cynoscephalae (197), in Thessaly, where the Roman legion demonstrated its superiority over the famous Macedonian phalanx. Philip surrendered all his Greek towns in Europe and Asia, and paid a heavy contribution to the Romans. At the Isthmian games in 196 Flamininus proclaimed the freedom of those states which had been subdued by Macedon. In 195 he diminished the power of the tyrant Nabis of Sparta, after which he occupied himself in restoring internal peace and prosperity to Greece. The next spring he returned to Rome, where his triumph lasted three days. In 183 he was sent as ambassador to Prusias, king of Bithynia, to seek the surrender of Hannibal, who had obtained an asylum there.