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100.
These Macedonians, unable to take the field
against so numerous an invader, shut themselves up in such strong places and
fortresses as the country possessed.
[2]
Of these there was no great number, most of those now found in the country
having been erected subsequently by Archelaus, the son of Perdiccas, on his
accession, who also cut straight roads, and otherwise put the kingdom on a
better footing as regards horses, heavy infantry, and other war material
than had been done by all the eight kings that preceded him.
[3]
Advancing from Doberus, the Thracian host first invaded what had been once
Philip's government, and took Idomene by assault, Gortynia, Atalanta, and
some other places by negotiation, these last coming over for love of
Philip's son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.
Laying siege to Europus, and failing to take it,
[4]
he next advanced into the rest of Macedonia to the left of Pella and
Cyrrhus, not proceeding beyond this into Bottia and Pieria, but staying to
lay waste Mygdonia, Crestonia, and Anthemus.
[5]
The Macedonians never even thought of meeting him with infantry; but the Thracian host was, as opportunity offered, attacked by handfuls of
their horse, which had been reinforced from their allies in the interior.
Armed with cuirasses, and excellent horsemen, wherever these charged they
overthrew all before them, but ran considerable risk in entangling
themselves in the masses of the enemy, and so finally desisted from these
efforts, deciding that they were not strong enough to venture against
numbers so superior.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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