Titus Quinctius Flamininus Titus Quinctius Flamininus ( c . 229 BC – c . 174 BC ) was a Roman politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece . A member of the patrician " gens " Quinctia , and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus , he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was appointed propraetor in Tarentum . He was a curule aedile in Rome in 203 BC and a quaestor in 199 BC . He became consul in 198 BC , despite being only about thirty years old , younger than the constitutional age required to serve in that position . As Livy records , two tribunes , Marcus Fulvius and Manius Curius publicly opposed his candidacy for consulship , as he was just a quaestor , but the Senate overrode the opposition and he was elected along with Sextus Aelius Paulus . After his election to the consulship he was chosen to replace Publius Sulpicius Galba who was consul with Gaius Aurelius in 200 BC , according to Livy , as general during the Second Macedonian War . He chased Philip V of Macedon out of most of Greece , except for a few fortresses , defeating him at the Battle of the Aous , but as his term as consul was coming to an end he attempted to establish a peace with the Macedonian king . During the negotiations , Flamininus was made proconsul , giving him the authority to continue the war rather than finishing the negotiations . In 197 BC he defeated Philip at the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly , the Roman legions making the Macedonian phalanx obsolete in the process . Philip was forced to surrender , give up all the Greek cities he had conquered , and pay Rome 1 , 000 talent s , but his kingdom was left intact to serve as a buffer state between Greece and Illyria . This displeased the Achaean League , Rome ' s allies in Greece , who wanted Macedon to be dismantled completely . In 198 BC he occupied Anticyra in Phokis and made it his naval yard and his main provisioning port . During the period from 197 to 194 BC , from his seat in Elateia , Flamininus directed the political affairs of the Greek states . In 196 BC Flamininus appeared at the Isthmian Games in Corinth and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek states . He was fluent in Greek and was a great admirer of Greek culture , and the Greeks hailed him as their liberator ; they minted coins with his portrait , and in some cities he was deified . According to Livy , this was the act of an unselfish Hellenophile , although it seems more likely that Flamininus understood freedom as liberty for the aristocracy of Greece , who would then become clients of Rome , as opposed to being subjected to Macedonian hegemony . With his Greek allies , Flamininus plundered Sparta , before returning to Rome in triumph along with thousands of freed slaves , 1200 of which were freed from Achaea , who had been taken captive and sold in Greece during the Second Punic War . Meanwhile , Eumenes II of Pergamum appealed to Rome for help against the Seleucid king Antiochus III . Flamininus was sent to negotiate with him in 192 BC , and warned him not to interfere with the Greek states . Antiochus did not believe Flamininus had the authority to speak for the Greeks , and promised to leave Greece alone only if the Romans did the same . These negotiations came to nothing and Rome was soon at war with Antiochus . Flamininus was present at the Battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC , in which Antiochus was defeated . In 189 BC he was elected censor along with Marcus Claudius Marcellus , defeating among others Cato the Elder . In 183 BC he was sent to negotiate with Prusias I of Bithynia in an attempt to capture Hannibal , who had been exiled there from Carthage , but Hannibal committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner . Although nothing is known of him after this , Flamininus seems to have died around 174 .