Having got through this pass he reached a village called <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Pamphia&groupId=832&placeId=1504">Pamphia</a>, which he likewise garrisoned, and then continued his advance on Thermus by a path not only exceedingly steep and rugged, but having high precipices on each side,
so that in some places the passage was very narrow and dangerous, the total ascent being about thirty stades.
Having accomplished this also in a very short time, as the Macedonians marched at a great pace, he reached Thermus late in the evening,
and encamping there, sent out his men to sack the surrounding villages and at the same time to loot the houses in Thermus itself, which were not only full of corn and other provisions, but more richly furnished than any in Aetolia.
For as it is here that they hold every year a very splendid fair and festival, as well as the election of their magistrates, they all kept the most precious of their goods stored up in this place to be used for the proper reception of their guests and for the various needs of the festive season.
Apart too from the need for their use, they thought it was far the safest place in which to store them, as no enemy had ever dared to invade this district, and it was indeed, so to speak, the natural citadel of all Aetolia.
Consequently, as it had enjoyed peace from time immemorial, the houses in the neighbourhood of the temple and all the places in the environs were full of every kind of valuables.
For that night the army bivouacked on the spot laden with booty of every description, and next day they selected the richest and most portable portion of the household goods and making a heap of the rest in front of their tents set fire to it.
Similarly as regards the suits of armour dedicated in the porticoes they took down and carried off the most precious, exchanged some for their own and collecting the rest made a bonfire of them. These were more than fifteen thousand in number.
Walbank Commentary