The protectorate which Rome claimed over Greece proper likewise devolved, of itself, on the new governor of Macedonia.

Thus Macedonia recovered its unity and nearly the same limits which it had in its most flourishing times.

It had no longer, however, the unity of a kingdom, but that of a province, retaining its communal and even, as it would seem, its district organization, but placed under an Italian governor and quaestor, whose names make their appearance on the native coins along with the name of the country.

As tribute, there was retained the old moderate land-tax, as Paullus had arranged it( 17)--a sum of 100 talents (24,000 pounds) which was allocated in fixed proportions on the several communities.

Yet the land could not forget its old glorious dynasty.