Upon news reaching him at this time that Attalus had crossed and anchored off Peparethus and occupied its country districts, he dispatched a force to protect the town against them;
to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phocis&groupId=892&placeId=1606">Phocis</a> and Boeotia and that neighbourhood he sent Polyphantus with an adequate number of troops, and to Calchis and the rest of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Euboea&groupId=584&placeId=1091">Euboea</a> Menippus with thousand peltasts and five hundred Agrianians;
he himself marched upon Scotusa, and ordered the Macedonians also to meet him at that town.
Hearing now that Attalus had sailed back to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Nicaea&groupId=792&placeId=1431">Nicaea</a> and that the Aetolian magistrates were about to meet at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Heraclea&groupId=624&placeId=1147">Heraclea</a> to discuss the situation, he took the force he had with him from Scotusa and made for <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Heraclea&groupId=624&placeId=1147">Heraclea</a> with the object of arriving in time to frighten and disperse their meeting.
He arrived too late for the meeting, but after destroying or carrying off the crops of the inhabitants round the Gulf of Aenus, he returned.
Leaving his main force again in Scotusa he halted and remained at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Demetrias&groupId=536&placeId=1006">Demetrias</a> with the royal troop of horse and his light-armed troops, waiting for the enemy to reveal their plans.
So that nothing that was going on should escape his notice he sent to the Peparethians, and to his commanders in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phocis&groupId=892&placeId=1606">Phocis</a> and Boeotia, ordering them to inform him of everything by fire-signals direct to Mount Tisaeus, a mountain in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thessaly&groupId=1028&placeId=1816">Thessaly</a> favourably situated for commanding a view of the above places.
Walbank Commentary