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Euripidas Intends to Attack Sicyon
Meanwhile Euripidas, with two companies of Eleans,—
B. C. 218, Jan.-Feb. Destruction of a marauding army of Eleans under Euripidas.
who combined with the pirates and mercenaries
made up an army of two thousand two hundred
men, besides a hundred horse,—started from
Psophis and began marching by way of Pheneus
and Stymphalus, knowing nothing about Philip's
arrival, with the purpose of wasting the territory
of Sicyon. The very night in which it chanced that Philip
had pitched his camp near the temple of the Dioscuri, he
passed the royal quarters, and succeeded in entering the
territory of Sicyon, about the time of the morning watch. But
some Cretans of Philip's army who had left their ranks, and
were prowling about on the track of prey, fell into the hands
of Euripidas, and being questioned by him informed him of
the arrival of the Macedonians. Without saying a word of his
discovery to any one, he at once caused his army to face
about, and marched back
Philip Captures Psophis
The sight of these things caused Philip much anxious
thought. Sometimes he was for giving up his plan of
attacking and besieging the place: at others the excellence of
its situation made him eager to accomplish this. For just as
it was then a source of danger to the Achaeans and Arcadians,
and a safe place of arms for the Eleans; so
would it on the other hand, if captured,
become a source of safety to the Arcadians,
and a most convenient base of operations for the allies
against the Eleans. Capture of Psophis. These considerations finally decided
him to make the attempt: and he therefore issued orders to
the Macedonians to get their breakfasts at daybreak, and be
ready for service with all preparations completed. Everything
being done as he ordered, the king led his army over the bridge
across the Erymanthus; and no one having offered him resistance,
owing to the unexpectedness of the movement, he arrived
under the walls of the town in gallant style and with
The Wealth of Elis
But when the Elean garrison of Lasion heard of the
Lasion and Stratus.
coming of the Macedonians, and were informed of what had taken place at Psophis,
they at once abandoned the town; so that
upon his arrival the king took it immediately, and by way
of enhancing his favours to the Achaeans handed Lasion
also over to them; and in a similar spirit restored Stratus
to the Telphusians, which was also evacuated by the Eleans.
On the fifth day after settling these matters he arrived at
Olympia. Philip at Olympia. There he offered a sacrifice to Zeus
and entertained his officers at a banquet;
and, having given his army three days' rest, commenced
his return march. After advancing some way into Elis, he
allowed foraging parties to scour the country while he himself
lay encamped near Artemisium, as it is called; and after receiving the booty there, he removed to the Dioscurium.See ch. 68. In
the course of this devastation of the country the number of the
captives was indee