Philip Secures His Frontier
About this same period King Philip captured Bylazora,
note
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 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. noteThe suddenness and unexpectedness of
the attack so dismayed the people of Meliteia, that he would
easily have taken the town; but he was baffled by the fact
of the ladders proving to be fat too short.
