and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece. Therefore it is thought that the younger Philip of Macedon Philip V., 237-179 B.C. uttered no jest, but the truth, whenever he called the city of Corinth the fetters of Greece. Accordingly, the place was always an object of great contention among kings and dynasts, but the eagerness of Antigonus to secure it fell nothing short of the most frenzied passion, and he was wholly absorbed in schemes to take it by stratagem from its possessors, since an open attempt upon it was hopeless.