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The Revenge of Dorimachus
The Strategus of the Aetolians at that time was Ariston;
Dorimachus becomes practically Strategus of Aetolia, B. C. 221.
but being from physical infirmities unable to
serve in the field, and being a kinsman of
Dorimachus and Scopas, he had somehow or
another surrendered his whole authority to the
former. In his public capacity Dorimachus could not venture
to urge the Aetolians to undertake the Messenian war, because
he had no reasonable pretext for so doing: the origin of his wish
being, as everybody well knew, the wrongs committed by himself and the bitter gibe which they had brought upon him. He
therefore gave up the idea of publicly advocating the war, but
tried privately to induce Scopas to join in the
intrigue against the Messenians.He induces Scopas to go to war with Messenia, Epirus, Achaia, Acarnania, and Macedonia. He pointed
out that there was now no danger from the side
of Macedonia owing to the youth of the king
(Philip being then only seventeen
Acts of Hostility Against Macedonia, Epirus, and Acarnania.
By sea they immediately sent out privateers, who, falling in with a royal vessel of Macedonia near
Cythera, brought it with all its crew to Aetolia,
and sold ship-owners, sailors, and marines, and
finally the ship itself. Then they began sacking the seaboard
of Epirus, employing the aid of some Cephallenian ships for carrying out this act of violence.
They tried also to capture Thyrium in Acarnania. At the same time they secretly-sent some men to
seize a strong place called Clarium, in the centre of the territory of Megalopolis; which they used thenceforth as a place of
sale for their spoils, and a starting-place for their marauding
expeditions. However Timoxenus, the Achaean Strategus,
with the assistance of Taurion, who had been left by Antigonus in charge of the Macedonian
interests in the Peloponnese, took the place after a siege of a very few days. For
Antigonus retained Corinth, in accordance with his convention
with t
Machatas Proposes Foreign War to Quell Domestic Strife
When Machatas heard what had happened at Sparta,
Spartans attack Argos, and proclaim war with the Achaeans.
he returned thither and urged the Ephors and
kings to go to war with the Achaeans; arguing
that that was the only way of stopping the ambition of the party in Sparta who were doing
all they could to break up the alliance with the Aetolians, or
of the party in Aetolia who were co-operating with them.
Having obtained the consent of the Ephors and kings,
Machatas returned home with a success secured him by the
blindness of his partisans in Sparta; while Lycurgus with the
army and certain others of the citizens invaded the Argive
territory, the inhabitants being quite unprepared for an attack,
owing to the existing settlement. By a sudden assault he
seized Polichna, Prasiae, Leucae, and Cyphanta, but was
repulsed at Glympes and Zarax. After these achievements of
their king, the Lacedaemonians proclaimed a licence of reprisal ag