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Philip Invades Aetolia
Meanwhile Lycurgus had invaded Messenia; and Dorimachus had started for Thessaly with half the
Ambassadors from Acarnania urge Philip to invade Aetolia; others from Messenia beg him to come there.
Aetolian army,—both with the idea that they
would thus draw off Philip from the siege of
Palus. Presently ambassadors arrived at the
court to make representations on these subjects
from Acarnania and Messenia: the former
urging Philip to prevent Dorimachus's invasion of Macedonia
by himself invading Aetolia, and traversing and plundering the
whole country while there was no one to resist him; the latter
begged him to come to their assistance, representing that in the
existing state of the Etesian winds the passage from Cephallenia to Messenia could be effected in a single day, whereby,
so Gorgus of Messenia and his colleagues argued, a sudden
and effective attack would be made upon Lycurgus. In
pursuance of his policy Leontius eagerly supported Gorgus,
seeing that by
Aratus Elected Strategus
When the next winter came, Philip having departed
Winter of B. C. 218-217.
to Macedonia, and the Achaean Strategus
Eperatus having incurred the contempt of the
Achaean soldiers and the complete disregard
of the mercenaries, no one would obey his orders, and
no preparation was made for the defence of the country.
This was observed by Pyrrhias, who had been
sent by the Aetolians to command the Eleans. Disorder in Achaia owing to the incompetence of the Strategus Eperatus.
He had under him a force of thirteen hundred
Aetolians, and the mercenaries hired by the
Eleans, as well as a thousand Elean infantry and
two hundred Elean cavalry, amounting in all to three thousand:
and he now began committing frequent raids, not only upon
the territories of Dyme and Pharae, but upon that of Patrae
also. Finally he pitched his camp on what is called the Panachaean Mountain, which commands the town of Patrae, and
began wasting the whole district towards Rhium and Aegium.
The
Philip Secures His Frontier
About this same period King Philip captured Bylazora,
Philip's campaign in Upper Macedonia and Thessaly.
the largest town of Paeonia, and very favourably situated for commanding the pass from
Dardania to Macedonia: so that by this
achievement he was all but entirely freed from
any fear of the Dardani, it being no longer easy for them to
invade Macedonia, as long as this city gave Philip the
command of the pass. Having secured this place, he despatched Chrysogonus wiMacedonia, as long as this city gave Philip the
command of the pass. Having secured this place, he despatched Chrysogonus with all speed to summon the upper
Macedonians to arms; while he himself, taking on the men of
Bottia and Amphaxitis, arrived at Edessa Waiting there until
he was joined by the Macedonians under Chrysogonus, he
started with his whole army, and on the sixth day's march
arrived at Larisa; and thence by a rapid night
march he came before daybreak to Meliteia,
and placing scaling ladders against the walls, attempted to take
the town by escalade.Meliteia.The suddenness and unexpectedness of
the attack