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Philip Comes to Corinth
About the same time Lycurgus returned from Messenia
Lycurgus of Sparta attacks Tegea.
without having accomplished anything of
importance. Afterwards he started again and
seized Tegea. The inhabitants having retreated
into the citadel, he determined to besiege it; but finding himself unable to make any impression upon it he returned once
more to Sparta.
The Eleans after over-running Dymaea, gained an easyElis.
victory over some cavalry that had come out to
resist them, by decoying them into an ambush.
They killed a considerable number of the Gallic mercenaries,
and among the natives whom they took prisoners were
Polymedes of Aegium, and Agesipolis, and Diocles of Dyme.
Dorimachus had made his expedition originally, as I
haveDorimachus recalled from Thessaly by Philip's invasion of Aetolia.
already mentioned, under the conviction that
he would be able to devastate Thessaly without
danger to himself, and would force Philip to
raise the siege of Palus. But when he
Aetolian Raids
After arranging this settlement, Aratus broke up his
Another raid of Aetolians from Elis.
camp; and going on himself to the congress
of the Achaeans, handed over the mercenaries
to Lycus of Pharae, as the Sub-Strategus
of the league. But the Eleans, being dissatisfied with
Pyrrhias, once more induced the Aetolians to send them
Euripidas; who, waiting until the Achaeans were engaged in
their congress, took sixty horse and two thousand foot, and
started on a raid. Having passed through the territory of
Pharae, he overran the country up to the territory of Aegium;
and after securing and driving off a considerable booty, he
began a retreat towards Leontium. But Lycus, learning what
had happened, went in all haste to protect the country; and
falling in with the enemy, he attacked them at once and killed
four hundred and took two hundred prisoners, among whom
were the following men of rank: Physsias, Antanor, Clearchus,
Androlochus, Euanoridas, Aristogeiton, Nicasippus, and
A
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 5, line 487 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 5, line 572 (search)