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Thereupon, finding that the people of Amphipolis1 were ill-disposed toward him and offered many
pretexts for war, he entered upon a campaign against them with a considerable force. By
bringing siege-engines against the walls2 and launching severe and continuous assaults, he
succeeded in breaching a portion of the wall with his battering rams, whereupon, having entered
the city through the breach and struck down many of his opponents, he obtained the mastery of
the city and exiled those who were disaffected toward him, but treated the rest
considerately.3
1 See chap. 3.3 and explanatory note; also 4.1.
2 See Wilcken, Alexander, 33.
3 A good account of Philip's seizures of Amphipolis, Pydna, Potidaea, and Crenides is found in Pickard-Cambridge, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.207-208. This account omits, as does Diodorus, Athens' declaration of war on Philip's retention of Amphipolis, which is attested by Isoc. 5.2; Aeschin. 2.21, 70, 72, Aeschin. 3.54; and IG, 2（2）. 127 (πόλεμος πρὸς Φίλιππον) of the year 356. For Amphipolis see also note on chap. 3.3; Theopompus fr. 43 (Oxford); Dem. 1.8; 2.6; 7.27-28; and on the exiles also Dittenberger, Sylloge, 1（3）. 194.
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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