King Philip after the conclusion of peace returned by sea to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Macedonia&groupId=723&placeId=428">Macedonia</a>, where he found that Scerdilaïdas, on the identical pretence of moneys still due to him which he had used to seize treacherously the ships at Leucas, had now pillaged a town in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pelagonia&groupId=853&placeId=1536">Pelagonia</a> called <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pissaeum&groupId=906&placeId=1627">Pissaeum</a>,
had got into his hands by menaces or by promises several cities of the Dassaretae, namely Antipatreia, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Chrysondyon&groupId=463&placeId=865">Chrysondyon</a>, and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Gertus&groupId=602&placeId=1112">Gertus</a>, and had made extensive inroads on the neighbouring parts of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Macedonia&groupId=723&placeId=428">Macedonia</a>.
He therefore set forth at once with his army to recover as soon as possible the revolted cities,
and decided to make war all round on Scerdilaïdas, thinking it most essential for his other projects and for his contemplated crossing to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> to arrange matters in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Illyria&groupId=647&placeId=1186">Illyria</a> to his satisfaction.
For Demetrius continued to fire these hopes and ambitions of the king with such assiduity that Philip in his sleep dreamt of nothing else than this, and was full of his new projects.
Demetrius did not do this out of consideration for Philip, whose cause was, I should say, only of third-rate importance to him in this matter, but actuated rather by his hostility to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and most of all for the sake of himself and his own prospects,
as he was convinced that this was the only way by which he could recover his principality of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pharos&groupId=879&placeId=1586">Pharos</a>.
Philip, then, advancing with his army recovered the cities I mentioned, took <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Creonium&groupId=503&placeId=946">Creonium</a> and Gerus in the Dassaretis, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Enchelanae&groupId=566&placeId=1058">Enchelanae</a>, Cerax, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sation&groupId=950&placeId=1688">Sation</a>, and Boei in the region of Lake Lychnis, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Bantia&groupId=392&placeId=735">Bantia</a> in the district of the Caloecini and Orgyssus in that of the Pisantini.
After these operations he dismissed his troops to winter quarters. This was the winter in which Hannibal after devastating the wealthiest part of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a> was going into winter quarters at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Gerunium&groupId=603&placeId=1114">Gerunium</a> in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Daunia&groupId=531&placeId=1002">Daunia</a>,
and the Romans had just elected Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paulus to the consulate.
Walbank Commentary