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Conclusion of Book 2
My reason for writing about this war at such length,
was the advisability, or rather necessity, in view of the general
purpose of my history, of making clear the relations existing
between Macedonia and Greece at a time which coincides
with the period of which I am about to treat.
Just about the same time, by the death of Euergetes,B. C. 284-280. B. C. 224-220.
Ptolemy Philopator succeeded to the throne of Egypt. At the
same period died Seleucus, son of that Seleucus who had the
double surnames of Callinicus and Pogon: he was succeeded
on the throne of Syria by his brother Antiochus. The deaths of
these three sovereigns—Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus—fell
in the same Olympiad, as was the case with the
three immediate successors to Alexander the
Great,—Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus,—
for the latter all died in the 124th Olympiad, and the former
in the 139th.
I may now fitly close this book. I have completed the
introduction and laid the foundation on which
Hannibal Attacks the Vaccaei
Next summer he set out on another expedition against the Vaccaei, in which he took Salmantica by
B. C. 220 Hannibal attacks the Vaccaei.
assault, but only succeeded in storming Arbucala, owing to the size of the town and the number
and valour of its inhabitants, after a laborious siege. After this
he suddenly found himself in a position of very great danger
on his return march: being set upon by the Carpesii, the
strongest tribe in those parts, who were joined also by neighbouring tribes, incited principally by refugees of the Olcades,
but roused also to great wrath by those who escaped from
Salmantica. If the Carthaginians had been compelled to give
these people regular battle, there can be no doubt that they
would have been defeated: but as it was, Hannibal, with
admirable skill and caution, slowly retreated until he had put the
Tagus between himself and the enemy; and thus giving battle
at the crossing of the stream, supported by it and the elephants,
Bad Strategy of Aratus
But the leaders of the Achaeans, on learning the
The battle of Caphyae, B. C. 220.
arrival of the Aetolians, adopted a course of proceeding quite unsurpassable for folly. They
left the territory of Cleitor and encamped at
Caphyae; but the Aetolians marching from Methydrium past
the city of Orchomenus, they led the Achaean troops into the
plain of Caphyae, and there drew them up for battle, with the
river which flows through that plain protecting their front.
The difficulty of the ground between them and their enemy,
for there were besides the river a number of ditches not easily
crossed,Caphyae was on a small plain, which was subject to inundations from
the lake of Orchomenus; the ditches here mentioned appear to be those dug to
drain this district. They were in the time of Pausanias superseded by a high
dyke, from the inner side of which ran the River Tragus (Tara). Pausan.
8, 23, 2. and the show of readiness on the part of the Achaeans
for the engagement, ca
Aratus is Denounced and Defends Himself
A few days after the events just narrated the ordinary
Midsummer, B. C. 220.
meeting of the Achaean federal assembly
took place, and Aratus was bitterly denounced,
publicly as well as privately, as indisputably
responsible for this disaster; and the anger of the general
public was still further roused and embittered by the
invectives of his political opponents. It was shown to
every one's satisfaction that Aratus had been guilty of
four flagrant errors. His first was that, having taken office
before his predecessor's time was legally at an end, he had
availed himself of a time properly belonging to another to
engage in the sort of enterprise in which he
was conscious of having often failed. Attacked at the Achaean Congress, Aratus successfully defends himself. His
second and graver error was the disbanding the
Achaeans, while the Aetolians were still in the
middle of the Peloponnese; especially as he had been well
aware beforehand that Scopas a