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Philip Takes Lissus in Illyria, B.C. 213
Philip had long had his thoughts fixed upon Lissus and
Lissus founded by Dionysius of Syracuse, B. C. 385. See Diod. Sic. 15. 13.
its citadel; and, being anxious to become master
of those places, he started with his army, and
after two days' march got through the pass and
pitched his camp on the bank of the river
Ardaxanus, not far from the town. He found
on surveying the place that the fortifications of
Lissus, both on the side of the sea and of the land, were
exceedingly strong both by nature and art; and that the citadel,
which was near it, from its extraordinary height and its other
sources of strength, looked more than any one could hope to
carry by storm. He therefore gave up all hope of the latter,
but did not entirely despair of taking the town. He observed
that there was a space between Lissus and the foot of the Acrolissus which was fairly well suited for making an attempt upon
the town. He conceived the idea therefore of bringing on