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Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Thebes Renamed Philippopolis
For the first three days the king was unable to make
Thebes is taken, its inhabitants enslaved, and its name changed to Philippopolis.
any progress in bringing his machines against
the town, owing to the gallant and even desperate defence which the garrison opposed to him.
But when the continual skirm ted to his
army that he had been justified in putting Leontius to death,
for his deliberate treachery in the previous siege of Palae.
Having thus become master of Thebes he sold its existing
inhabitants into slavery, and drafting in some Macedonian
settlers changed its name to Philippopolis.
Just as the king had finished the settlement of Thebes,
ambassadors once more came from Chios, Rhodes, Byzantium,
and King Ptolemy to negotiate terms of peace. He answered
them in much the same terms as he had the former,See supra, ch. 24. that he
was not averse to peace; and bade them go and find out
what the feelings of the Aetolians were. Meanwhile he himself cared
Rhodes (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Byzantium (Turkey) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Magnesia (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Philippopolis (Bulgaria) (search for this): book 5, chapter 100
Thebes Renamed Philippopolis
For the first three days the king was unable to make
Thebes is taken, its inhabitants enslaved, and its name changed to Philippopolis.
any progress in bringing his machines against
the town, owing to the gallant and even desperate defence which the garrison opposed to him.
But when the continual skirmishing, and the
volleys of missiles, had began to tell upon the
defenders, and some of them were killed and others disabled by wounds; the defence becoming a little sl stified in putting Leontius to death,
for his deliberate treachery in the previous siege of Palae.
Having thus become master of Thebes he sold its existing
inhabitants into slavery, and drafting in some Macedonian
settlers changed its name to Philippopolis.
Just as the king had finished the settlement of Thebes,
ambassadors once more came from Chios, Rhodes, Byzantium,
and King Ptolemy to negotiate terms of peace. He answered
them in much the same terms as he had the former,See supra, ch. 24. t