Expedition of Attalus
But after reducing Milyas, and the greater part of
Pamphylia, Achaeus took his departure, and arriving at Sardis
kept up a continuous warfare with Attalus, and began threatening Prusias, and making himself an object of terror and
alarm to all the inhabitants on this side Taurus.
But while Achaeus was engaged on his expedition against note
Selge, Attalus with the Aegosagae from Gaul was
going through all the cities in Aeolis, and the
neighbourhood, which had before this been
terrified into joining Achaeus; but most of which
now voluntarily and even gratefully gave in
their adherence to him, though there were some few which
waited to be forced. Now the cities which transferred their
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allegiance to him in the first instance were Cyme, Smyrna, and
Phocaea; after them Aegae and Temnus submitted, in terror at
his approach; and thereupon he was waited upon by ambassadors from Teos and Colophon with offers to surrender themselves
and their cities. He received them also upon the same terms
as they had enjoyed before, taking hostages; but he treated the
ambassadors from Smyrna with special kindness, because they
had been the most constant in their loyalty of all. Continuing his march without interruption, he crossed the Lycus
and arrived at the hamlets of Mysia, and thence came to
Carseae. Overawing the inhabitants of this town, as well as
the garrison of the Two Walls, he got them surrendered to him
by Themistocles, who had been, as it happened, left by Achaeus
in command of this district. Starting thence, and wasting the
plain of Apia, he crossed Mount Pelecas and encamped near
the river Megistus.
