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When Nicophemus was archon at Athens, the consular office at Rome was assumed by Gaius Sulpicius and Gaius Licinius. During their term of office Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, sent pirate ships against the Cyclades,1 stormed some and took many captives, then disembarking mercenaries on Peparethos2 put the city under siege.

1 See Dem. 50.4-5; Polyaenus 6.2.

2 An island off Thessaly, north of Scyros. Perhaps Panormus is its harbour town.

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