XXXVIL On hearing of the tyrant's death Philopoemen went to Lac edaemon. where he found universal panic and con- ，J‘ sion. He invited the principal men to meet him,an d and addressing them as Alexamenus ought to have done, incorpo rated the city in the Achaean league. This was rendered all the easier by -the fact that just at that time A. Atilius arrived at Gytheum with four-and-twenty quinqueremes. Failure of the Aetolians at Chalcis.-Thoas was far from- meeting with the same success at Chalcis as was achieved at Demetrias through the agency of Eu叨ochus. He had enlisted the services of two men-Euthymidas, one of the leading men in Chalcis who had been expelled through the influence of the Roman party, strengthened by the visit of T. Quinctius and the fleet, and Herodorus, a trader from Chios whose wealth gave him considerable weight in the city. Through their instrumentality Thoas had arranged with the adherents of Euthymidas to betray the city into his hands. Euthymidas had taken up his residence at Athens, from there he went to Thebes, and then on ，·to Salganeus. Herodorus went to Thronium. Not far from this place T 匡oas had a force of 2000 infantry and 200 cavalry, as well as thirty light transports in the Mal iac Gulf. Herodorus WaS to take these vessels with a complement of 6oo infantry to the island of Atalanta with the object of sailing across to Chalcis as soon as he learnt that the land force was nearing Aulis and the Euripus. Thoas himself marched with this force as rapidly as possible, mostly by night, to Chalcis.