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The War between Rhodes and Byzantium Begins
At first the Byzantines entered upon the war with
Hostilities commence, B. C. 220.
energy, in full confidence of receiving the
assistance of Achaeus; and of being able
to cause Prusias as much alarm and danger
by fetching Tiboetes from Macedonia as he had done
to them. For Prusias, entering upon the war with all the
animosity which I have described, had seized the place called
Hieron at the entrance of the channel, which the Byzantines
not long before ailed to Byzantium, to test the spirit of the people, and
see whether they were already sufficiently alarmed to change
their minds about the war. Finding them resolved not to
listen he sailed away, and, taking up his other nine ships,
returned to Rhodes with the whole squadron.
Meanwhile the Byzantines sent a message to Achaeus
asking for aid, and an escort to conduct Tiboetes from
Macedonia. For it was believed that Tiboetes had as good a
claim to the kingdom of Bithynia as Prusias, who was his
Byzantium, Rhodes, and Prusias Treaties
But seeing the confident spirit of the Byzantines, the
The Rhodians secure the friendship of Achaeus.
Rhodians adopted an exceedingly able plan to
obtain their object. They perceived that the
resolution of the Byzantines in venturing on
the war rested mainly on their hopes of the
support of Achaeus. Now they knew that the father of
Achaeus was detained at Alexandria, and that Achaeus was
exceedingly anxious for his father's safety: they therefore hit
upon the idea of sending an embassy to Ptolemy, and asking
him to deliver this Andromachus to them. This request,
indeed, they had before made, but without laying any great
stress upon it: now, however, they were genuinely anxious for
it; that, by doing this favour to Achaeus, they might lay him
under such an obligation to them, that he would be unable to
refuse any request they might make to him. When the
ambassadors arrived, Ptolemy at first deliberated as to detaining Andromachus; because there s
War In Crete
At the same time the Cnossians sent an embassy to
War between Rhodes and Crete.
the Rhodians, and persuaded them to send them
the ships that were under the command of Polemocles, and to launch three undecked vessels
besides and send them also to Crete. The Rhodians having
complied, and the vessels having arrived at Crete, the people
of Eleutherna suspecting that one of their citizens named
Timarchus had been put to death by Polemocles to please the
Cnossians, first proclaimed a right of reprisal against the
Rhodians, and then went to open war with them.
The people of Lyttos,Or Lyctos (Steph. Byz.) too, a short time before this, metThe destruction of Lyttos.
with an irretrievable disaster. At that time
the political state of Crete as a whole was this.
The Cnossians, in league with the people of
Gortyn, had a short time previously reduced the whole island
under their power, with the exception of the city of Lyttos;
and this being the only city which refused obedience, they
Death of Megaleas
Presently the ambassadors of Rhodes and Chios
A thirty days' truce offered by the Aetolians through the Rhodian and Chian ambassadors.
returned from Aetolia. They had agreed to a
truce of thirty days, and asserted that the
Aetolians were ready to make peace: they had
also arranged for a stated day on which they
claimed that Philip should meet them at Rhium;
undertaking that the Aetolians would be ready
to do anything on condition of making peace. Philip accepted
the truce and wrote letters to the allies, bidding
them send assessors and commissioners to discuss the terms
with the Aetolians; while he himself sailed
from Lechaeum and arrived on the second day
at Patrae. Treason of Megaleas detected. His arrest and suicide. Just then certain letters were sent to
him from Phocis, which Megaleas had written
to the Aetolians, exhorting them not to be frightened, but to
persist in the war, because Philip was in extremities through a
lack of provisions. Besides this the let
Earthquake At Rhodes
About the same period the earthquake occurred at
Earthquake at Rhodes. Royal liberality, B. C. 224.
Rhodes, which overthrew the great Colossus and
the larger part of the walls and dockyards. But
the adroit policy of the RhodiansRhodes. Royal liberality, B. C. 224.
Rhodes, which overthrew the great Colossus and
the larger part of the walls and dockyards. But
the adroit policy of the Rhodians converted this
misfortune into an opportunity; and under their
skilful management, instead of adding to their embarrassments,
it became the means of restoring their prosperity. So decisive
in human affairs, public or private, is the difference betweRhodes, which overthrew the great Colossus and
the larger part of the walls and dockyards. But
the adroit policy of the Rhodians converted this
misfortune into an opportunity; and under their
skilful management, instead of adding to their embarrassments,
it became the means of restoring their prosperity. So decisive
in human affairs, public or private, is the difference between incapacity and good sense, between idle indifference and a close
attention to business. Good fortune only damages the one,
while disaster is but a means of recovery to the other. This
was illustrated by the manner in which the Rhodians turned
the hree cubits length. In spite too of these large
gifts, they regarded themselves as under an obligation to the
Rhodians; and accordingly erected statues in the Deigma or
Mart of Rhodes, representing the community of Rhodes
crowned by that of Syracuse.