Lycurgus at about the same time returned from his expedition to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Messenia&groupId=760&placeId=1380">Messenia</a> without having accomplished anything worthy of mention; and starting again from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> shortly afterwards, occupied the town of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Tegea&groupId=1011&placeId=1780">Tegea</a>
and undertook the siege of the citadel, into which the inhabitants had retired. But being utterly unable to effect anything he returned again to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a>.
The Eleans also overran the territory of Dyme and easily defeated the cavalry who came to opposite them by decoying them into an ambush,
killing not a few of the Gauls and taking Polymedes of Aegium and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Agesipolis&groupId=302&placeId=594">Agesipolis</a> and Diocles of Dyme prisoners.
Dorimachus had originally made his raid with the Aetolians, fully persuaded, as I said above, that he could overrun <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thessaly&groupId=1028&placeId=1816">Thessaly</a> undisturbed and would force Philip to raise the siege of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Palus&groupId=830&placeId=1500">Palus</a>,
but finding Chrysogonus and Petraeus in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thessaly&groupId=1028&placeId=1816">Thessaly</a> ready to give him battle, he did not venture to descend into the plain, but kept to the slopes of the hills.
On hearing of the Macedonian invasion of Aetolia he quitted <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Thessaly&groupId=1028&placeId=1816">Thessaly</a> and hastened to defend his country, but found that the Macedonians had already left Aetolia, and so failed and was too late at all points.
The king put out from Leucas, and after pillaging the territory of Oeanthe as he coasted along, reached <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a> with his whole fleet.
Anchoring his ships in the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lechaeum&groupId=675&placeId=1234">Lechaeum</a> he disembarked his troops, and sent couriers to all the allied cities in the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Peloponnese&groupId=861&placeId=1552">Peloponnese</a> to inform them of the day on which they must present themselves in arms at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Tegea&groupId=1011&placeId=1780">Tegea</a> before bed-time.
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