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14. But when Amynander, having asked the consul for a small detachment, since he had little confidence in his own men, was moving on Gomphi, he immediately took by storm a town called Phaeca, lying between Gomphi and the narrow pass which separates Athamania and Thessaly. [2] Then he attacked Gomphi, and the inhabitants, after defending the city with all their might for some days, were [p. 193]finally reduced to surrender by their fear, when he1 had placed his scaling-ladders against the walls. [3] The surrender of Gomphi caused great terror to the Thessalians. In turn the inhabitants of Argenta and Pherinium and Timarum and Ligynae and Strymon and Lampsus and other insignificant forts in the vicinity surrendered.

[4] While the Aetolians and Athamanes, laying aside their fear of Macedonia, were reaping, through plundering, the fruits of another's victory, and Thessaly was being wasted by three armies at once, not knowing which to believe was foe and which ally, the consul marched [5] into the country of Epirus through the pass which had been laid open by the flight of the enemy; [6] although he knew full well which side the Epirotes favoured, with the exception of one leading citizen, Charopus, nevertheless, because he saw them zealously carrying out his orders in their desire to please him, he judged them rather by their present than their past behaviour, and won over, by his readiness to pardon, their support for the future. [7] Then, sending messengers to Corcyra, that the cargo-ships should proceed to the Ambracian gulf, he advanced by easy marches and on the fourth day encamped on Mount Cercetius, summoning there Amynander with his auxiliaries, not so much from need of his assistance as that he might have guides into Thessaly. [8] From the same motive, many volunteers of the Epirotes were enlisted for service with the auxiliaries.

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.34
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 36.24
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.2
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Lampsus
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Lisinae
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Maliacus
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Pheca
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Pherinium
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Sinus Ambracius
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Stimon
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Timarum
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Ambracius
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Amynander
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Argens
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Athamanes
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Cercetius
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Fauces
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Gomphi
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    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LAMPSUS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LISINAE
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PHECA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PHERINUM
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PINDUS
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