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[5] Mantias, the Athenian general, who had sailed into Methone,1 stayed behind there himself but sent Argaeus with his mercenaries to Aegae.2 And Argaeus approached the city and invited the population of Aegae to welcome his return and become the founders of his own kingship.

1 See chap. 2.6. Methone is above Pydna near the Macedonian border.

2 Old capital of Macedonia, considerably inland.

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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