The Roman Senate ordered who, one of the consuls for the year, to sail from Achaea to Greece to put down the revolt, but in the interim, they authorized Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, who had recently been victorious in the Fourth Macedonian War and had a battle-hardened army in Macedon, to take initial action?
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Correct answer: B. Lucius Mummius
Answer: Lucius Mummius. Why not the others: "Titus Quinctius Flamininus" proclaimed the 'freedom of the Greeks' at the Isthmian Games in 196 BC; "Lucius Aemilius Paullus" defeated King Perseus of Macedon at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC; "Mark Antony" ruled the eastern Roman provinces alongside Queen Cleopatra until Actium in 31 BC.
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