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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-sentAcarnania. 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
The Acarnanians Enter the War
While Philip was thus engaged, the commissioners sent
The Acarnanians, B. C. 220.
out to the allies were performing their mission.
The first place they came to was Acarnania;
and the Acarnanians, with a noble promptitude,
confirmed the decree and undertook to join the war against
the Aetolians with their full forces. And yet they, if any
one, might have been excused if they had put the matter
off, and hesitated, and shown fear of entering upon a
war with their neighbours; both because they lived upon the
frontiers of Aetolia, and still more because they were peculiarly open to attack, and, most of all, because they had a short
time before experienced the most dreadful disasters from the
enmity of the Aetolians. But I imagine that men of noble
nature, whether in private or public affairs, look upon duty as
the highest consideration; and in adherence to this principle
no people in Greece have been more frequently conspicuous
than the Acarnanians, although