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[4] Having arrived in Larissa and found the acropolis garrisoned by Alexander of Macedon,1 he obtained its surrender. Then proceeding into Macedon, where he made an alliance with Alexander the Macedonian king, he took from him as a hostage his brother Philip, whom he sent to Thebes.2 When he had settled Thessalian affairs as he thought fit in the interest of the Boeotians, he returned home.

1 See chap. 61.4, 5.

2 For a different account concerning Philip see Book 16.2.2. Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.86, disagrees with both passages in Diodorus. See Aeschin. 2.28.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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