Athenagoras, Philip's lieutenant, in the meanwhile caught uD the Dardanians as thev were retirine within their frontiers and created considerable contusion in the rear of their column. They faced about and formed in line of battle, and a regular engagement ensued in which .neither side gained the eS When the Dardanians began again to go forward cavalry continued to harass them as they had no the same kind to protect them, and their equipment rendered them immobile. The ground, too, was in favour of the assailants. Very few were actually killed, but there were many wounded no prisoners were taken because they were cautious about leaving their ranks and kept up the retreating fi处乡in少se order. Thus PUT through his bold initiative as much as} by its successful results kept the two nations in check by his welltimed movements and so made good the losses he had sustained in the war with Rome. An incident which occurred subsequently gave him a further advantage by diminishing the number of his Aetolian enemies. Scopas, one of their principal men who had been sent by Ring Ptolemy from Alexandrea with a considerable amount of gold, conveyed to Egypt" r - " r 1 1“mercenary armyTT " 1 consisting of oooo inianLry and Soo cavalry. He would not have left a single man of military age in Aetolia if Damocritus had not kept some of them at home by sternly. reminding them of the war which was imminent and the defenceless condition of a country deprived of manhood. It is uncertain whether his action was dictated it卜. 活VJ patriotism or by personal enmity to Scopas who had not brib ed him. Such were the various undertakings in which the Romans and Philip were engaged during this summer.