They did this because they considered that they would be, as it were, polluted by entering the same water as those people. And as for the hissing and hooting at public festivals when anyone attempted to proclaim one of these men as victor, it would not be easy to describe it. Even the children in the streets on their way back from school ventured to call them traitors to their faces. The narrative of Pausanias 7.11.1-2, then, is based in all probability on a lost section of Polybius, who is usually trustworthy on second century affairs. Pausanias's account appears confirmed, and the prophecy of J.G. Frazer partially fulfilled.
All translations are from the Loeb Classical Series.
E.S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, Vol. Bund von 146 bis 27 v. Chr. This list is by no means exhaustive. A partially mutilated inscription, Syll . It was routine procedure for ambassadors traveling in the East to pause and investigate affairs in Greece, though our sources do not always make this clear.