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78.
About the same time in the summer, Brasidas
set out on his march for the Thracian places with seventeen hundred heavy
infantry, and arriving at Heraclea in Trachis, from thence sent on a
messenger to his friends at Pharsalus, to ask them to conduct himself and
his army through the country.
Accordingly there came to Melitia in Achaia Panaerus, Dorus, Hippolochidas,
Torylaus, and Strophacus, the Chalcidian Proxenus, under whose escort he
resumed his march,
[2]
being accompanied also by other Thessalians, among whom was Niconidas from
Larissa, a friend of Perdiccas.
It was never very easy to traverse Thessaly without an escort; and throughout all Hellas for an armed force to pass without leave through
a neighbour's country, was a delicate step to take.
Besides this the Thessalian people had always sympathized with the
Athenians.
[3]
Indeed if instead of the customary close oligarchy there had been a
constitutional government in Thessaly, he would never have been able to
proceed; since even as it was, he was met on his march at the river Enipeus by
certain of the opposite party who forbade his further progress, and
complained of his making the attempt without the consent of the nation.
[4]
To this his escort answered that they had no intention of taking him
through against their will; they were only friends in attendance on an unexpected victor.
Brasidas himself added that he came as a friend to Thessaly and its
inhabitants; his arms not being directed against them but against the Athenians, with
whom he was at war, and that although he knew of no quarrel between the
Thessalians and Lacedaemonians to prevent the two nations having access to
each other's territory, he neither would nor could proceed against their
wishes; he could only beg them not to stop him.
[5]
With this answer they went away, and he took the advice of his escort, and
pushed on without halting, before a greater force might gather to prevent
him.
Thus in the day that he set out from Melitia he performed the whole
distance to Pharsalus, and encamped on the river Apidanus; and so to Phacium, and from thence to Perrhaebia.
[6]
Here his Thessalian escort went back, and the Perrhaebians, who are
subjects of Thessaly, set him down at Dium in the dominions of Perdiccas, a
Macedonian town under Mount Olympus, looking towards Thessaly.
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