At a later time, however, when he had some ground for accusation against the Lacedaemonians, as general of the league Philopoemen was for the sixth time general in 188 B.C. Philopoemen brought back its exiles to the city, and put to death eighty Spartans, according to Polybius, In a passage not extant. Livy gives the same number ( xxxviii. 33 ). or according to Aristocrates, three hundred and fifty. He also tore down the walls of the city, and cutting off a large part of its territory, annexed it to Megalopolis; moreover, in the case of those who had been made citizens of Sparta by the tyrants, he removed them all into Achaia, with the exception of three thousand who would not obey him and were unwilling to go away from Sparta. These he sold into slavery, and then, as if in mockery of their fate, erected a portico in Megalopolis with the money which they brought.