nder and captives and the
three ships from Fort Budorum to Nisaea; the state of their ships also
causing them some anxiety, as it was a long while since they had
been launched, and they were not water-tight. Arrived at Megara, they
returned back on foot to Corinth. The Athenians finding them no longer
at Salamis, sailed back themselves; and after this made arrangements for
guarding Piraeus more diligently in future, by closing the harbours, and
by other suitable precautions.

About the same time, at the beginning of this winter, Sitalces, son
of Teres, the Odrysian king of Thrace, made an expedition against
Perdiccas, son of Alexander, king of Macedonia, and the Chalcidians in
the neighbourhood of Thrace; his object being to enforce one promise and
fulfil another. On the one hand Perdiccas had made him a promise,
when hard pressed at the commencement of the war, upon condition that
Sitalces should reconcile the Athenians to him and not attempt to
restore his brother and enemy, the pretender Philip, but had not offered
to fulfil his engagement; on the other he, Sitalces, on entering into
alliance with the Athenians, had agreed to put an end to the Chalcidian
war in Thrace. These were the two objects of his invasion. With him he
brought Amyntas, the son of Philip, whom he destined for the throne of
Macedonia, and some Athenian envoys then at his court on this business,
and Hagnon as general; for the Athenians were to join him against
the Chalcidians with a fleet and as many soldiers as they could get
together.

Beginning with the Odrysians, he first called out the Thracian tribes
subject to him between Mounts Haemus and Rhodope and the Euxine and
Hellespont; next the Getae beyond Haemus, and the other hordes settled
south of the Danube in the neighbourhood of the Euxine, who, like the
Getae, border on the Scythians and are armed in the same manner, being
all mounted archers. Besides these he summoned many of the hill Thracian
independent swordsmen, called Dii and mostly inhabiting Mount Rhodope,
some of whom came as mercenaries, others as volunteers; also the
Agrianes and Laeaeans, and the rest of the Paeonian tribes in his
empire, at the confines of which these lay, extending up to the Laeaean
Paeonians and the river Strymon, which flows from Mount Scombrus through
the country of the Agrianes and Laeaeans; there the empire of Sitalces
ends and the territory of the independent Paeonians begins. Bordering
on the Triballi