Philip Comes to Corinth
About the same time Lycurgus returned from Messenia
note
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 easy note
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
have note
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 found
Chrysogonus and Petraeus ready in Thessaly to
engage him, he did not venture to descend into the plain, but
kept close upon the skirts of the mountains; and when news
reached him of the Macedonian invasion of Aetolia, he
abandoned his attempt upon Thessaly, and hurried home to
resist the invaders, whom he found however already departed from Aetolia: and so was too late for the campaign
at all points.
Meanwhile the king set sail from Leucas; and after ravaging note
the territory of Oeanthe as he coasted along,
arrived with his whole fleet at Corinth, and
dropping anchor in the harbour of Lechaeum,
disembarked his troops, and sent his letter-bearers to the
allied cities in the Peloponnese, naming a day on which he
wished all to be at Tegea by bed-time.
