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Polybius, Histories, book 5, Philip Invades Aetolia (search)
to act in the present
instance in accordance with the opinion of Aratus. Accordingly he wrote to the Achaean Strategus Eperatus, bidding him
take the Achaean levies, and go to the aid of the Messenians;
while he himself put to sea from Cephallenia, and arrived at
night after a two days' voyage at Leucas: and having managed
by proper contrivances to get his ships through the channel
or Dioryctus,The narrow channel between Leucas and the mainland, which had been
artificially enlarged. Dionys. Halic. 1, 50. he sailed up the Ambracian Gulf, which, as I
have already stated,4, 63. stretches from the Sicilian Sea a long
distance into the interior of Aetolia. Having made the whole
length of this gulf, and anchored a short time before daybreak
at Limnaea, he ordered his men to get their breakfast, and
leaving the greater part of their baggage behind them, to make
themselves ready in light equipment for a march; while he
himself collected the guides, and made careful inquiries of
them about t