The.War in Greece.-Philip was wintering in Pella when the news of the defection of the Aetolians reached him. He had intended to marchillto Greece 1into呀 reece at， the begir 7 . , r 呵ng of. the spring, and with the view of Keeping the ltiynans and the cities adiacent to his western frontier auiet he made a sudden· invasion into the territories of vncum ana apouoma. me men of Apollonia came out to give battle, but he drove them back in great panic to their walls. After devastating the neighbouring district of Ill州a, he turned swiftly into Pelagonia and captured Sintia, a city of the Dardani, which gave them easy access into Macedonia. After these rapid incursions he turned his attention to the war which the Aetolians, in conjunction with the Romans, were commencing against him. Marching through Pelagonia, Lyncus and Bottiaea he descended into Thessaly, whose population he hoped to rouse to joint action with him against the Aetolians. Leaving Perseus with a force of 4000 men to hold the pass into Thessaly against them he returned to Macedonia, before engaging in the more serious contest, and from there marched into Thrace to attack the Maedi.This tribe were in the habit of making incursions into Macedonia whenever they found the king occupied with some distant war and his kingdom unprotected. To break their aggressiveness he devastated their country, and attacked IaMAhorvna. their chief city and stronz- 几砂，砂几J hold. When Scopas heard that the king had gone into Thessaly, and was engaged in hostilities there, he called up all the fighting men of Aetolia and prepared to invade Acarnania. The Acarnanians were inferior to their enemy in stren梦h; they were also aware that Oeniadae and Nasos were lost, and above all, that the arms of Rome were turned against them. Under these circumstanes they entered upon the struggle more in a spirit of raze and desuair than with prudence and method. Their ·wives and cmiaren ana au men over sixty years of age were sent into the adjoining country of Epirus. All who were between fifteen and sixty bound themselves by oath not to return home 一unless they were victorious, and if any one left the field, defeated, no man should receive him into any 'city or house admit him to his table or his hearth. They drew up a form orofen -wards, invoking a terrible curse upon anv of their countrvm who should prove recreants, and a most solemn appeal to their hosts, the E沙otes, to respect their oath. They also begged them to bury those of their countrymen who fell in battle in one common grave and place over it this inscription:‘二Here lie the Acarnanians who met their death whilst fighting for their wuntry against the -violence and injustice of the Aetolians." In this determined and desperate mood, they fixed their camp on the extreme limit of their borders and awaited the enemy. Messengers were despatched to Philip to announce their critical situation, and in spite of his recapture of Iamphoryna and other successes in Thrace he was compelled -to abandon his northern campaign and go to their assistance. Rumours of the oath which the Acarnanians had taken arrested the advance、of the Aetolians;the news of Philip's aDDroach compelled them to withdraw into the interior of their country. Philip had made a forced mar ch to prevent the Acarnanians from being crushed，but he did not advance V beyond Dium, and on learning that the Aetolians had retired he returned to Pella.