沈食nted and vexed atcents he was alwayse mocked his energyortunity from beforeisappointment in thevery confident tone,at at no time or placespeed wherever theould be difficult, he continued, to estimate whether the enemy's anxiety to flee or his own eagerness to fight played the greater part in the war. In this way Attalus got away from Opus, and Sulpicius from Chalcis, and now Machanidas had slipped out of his hands. But flight did not alwavs mean victorv. and it Ws impossible to regard as serious a -war in which when once you have come into touch with the enemy, you have conquered. The most important thing was the enemy's own admission that they were no match for him, and in a short time he would win a decisive victory, the enemy would find the result of the battle no better than they had anticipated. His allies were del with his speech. He then made over Heraea and Triphyl he Achaeans, and on their brin gang forward satisfactory evidence that Aliphera in Megalopolis had formed part of their territory, he restored that place also to them. Subsequ with some vessels furnished by the Achaeans-three mes and as many biremes-he sailed 豁iesand to Anticyra. He previously sent into the Gulf of Corinth seven qumqueremes nd more than twenty light vessels, intend吨to the Carthaginian fleet, and with these he proceeded to Eruthrae in Aetolia near Eupalium. where he J‘J‘， their flocks and herds wtuch they were unable in their haste to drive away Philip secured and placed on board. The whole of the plunder was despatched in charge of Nicias the praetor of the Achaeans to Aegium;Philip, sending his army overland through Boeotia, went himself to Corinth, and from there Cenchreae. Here he re-embarked, and sailing past the coast 似O 0.注 Attica, round the headland of Sunium and almost through the hostile fleets. arrived at Chalcis. In his address to the citizens he spoke in the highest terms of their loyalty and courage in refusing to be moved by either threats or promises, and he urged them. in case thev were attacked. to show the same determination to be true to their ally if they thought their own position preferable to that of Opus or Oreus. From Chalcis he sailed to Oreus, where he entrusted the administration and defence of the city to those magnates who had fled on the capture of the place rather than betray it to the Romans. Then he returned to Demetrias, the place from which he had started to render assistance to his allies. He now proceeded to lay down the keels of zoo war-ships at Cassandrea, and a large number of shipwrights were assembled for their construction. As matters were now quiet in Greece, owinLy to the departure of Attalus and the effective assistance which Philip had given to his allies in their aimculties, ne returned to Macedonia, to commence operations against the Ma.edi_