The Peloponnesian Argos thenceforth became the rendezvous for the Roman merchants, who were very numerous even in Greece.

For the Roman wholesale traffic, however, Delos was of greater importance; a Roman free port as early as 586, it had attracted a great part of the business of Rhodes,( 26) and now in a similar way entered on the heritage of Corinth.

This island remained for a considerable time the chief emporium for merchandise going from the east to the west.( 27) In the third and more distant continent the Roman dominion exhibited a development more imperfect than in the African and Macedono-Hellenic countries, which were separated from Italy only by narrow seas.
Kingdom of Pergamus In Asia Minor, after the Seleucids were driven back, the kingdom of Pergamus had become the first power.

Not led astray by the traditions of the Alexandrine monarchies, but sagacious and dispassionate enough to renounce what was impossible, the Attalids kept quiet; and endeavoured not to extend their bounds nor to withdraw from the Roman hegemony, but to promote the prosperity of their empire, so far as the Romans allowed, and to foster the arts of peace.

Nevertheless they did not escape the jealousy and suspicion of Rome.