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Charadra (search for this): book 4, chapter 63
Actium (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 63
Epirus (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 63
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): book 4, chapter 63
Philip's Aetolian Campaign
When he heard what had happened in Macedonia, and
Ambracus taken.
had thus paid on the spot for the selfishness
and folly of the Epirotes, Philip proceeded to
besiege Ambracus. By an energetic use of
earthworks, and other siege operations, he quickly terrified the
people into submission, and the place surrendered after a delay
of forty days in all. He let the garrison, consisting of five
hundred Aetolians, depart on fixed conditions, and gratified the
cupidity of the Epirotes by handing over Ambracus to them;
while he himself set his army in motion, and marched by way
of Charadra, being anxious to cross the Ambracian gulf
where it is narrowest, that is to say, near the Acarnanian
temple called Actium. For this gulf is a branch of the
Sicilian sea between Epirus and Acarnania, with a very narrow
opening of less than five stades, but expanding as it extends
inland to a breadth of a hundred stades; while the length of
the whole arm from the open sea is about t
Aetolia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 63
Acarnania (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 63