e.
Passing over these mountains, with the Paeonians on his right and the
Sintians and Maedians on the left, he finally arrived at Doberus,
in Paeonia, losing none of his army on the march, except perhaps by
sickness, but receiving some augmentations, many of the independent
Thracians volunteering to join him in the hope of plunder; so that
the whole is said to have formed a grand total of a hundred and fifty
thousand. Most of this was infantry, though there was about a third
cavalry, furnished principally by the Odrysians themselves and next to
them by the Getae. The most warlike of the infantry were the independent
swordsmen who came down from Rhodope; the rest of the mixed multitude
that followed him being chiefly formidable by their numbers.

Assembling in Doberus, they prepared for descending from the heights
upon Lower Macedonia, where the dominions of Perdiccas lay; for the
Lyncestae, Elimiots, and other tribes more inland, though Macedonians by
blood, and allies and dependants of their kindred, still have their
own separate governments. The country on the sea coast, now called
Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and
his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos. This was effected by the
expulsion from Pieria of the Pierians, who afterwards inhabited Phagres
and other places under Mount Pangaeus, beyond the Strymon (indeed the
country between Pangaeus and the sea is still called the Pierian Gulf);
of the Bottiaeans, at present neighbours of the Chalcidians, from
Bottia, and by the acquisition in Paeonia of a narrow strip along the
river Axius extending to Pella and the sea; the district of Mygdonia,
between the Axius and the Strymon, being also added by the expulsion of
the Edonians. From Eordia also were driven the Eordians, most of
whom perished, though a few of them still live round Physca, and
the Almopians from Almopia. These Macedonians also conquered places
belonging to the other tribes, which are still theirs--Anthemus,
Crestonia, Bisaltia, and much of Macedonia proper. The whole is
now called Macedonia, and at the time of the invasion of Sitalces,
Perdiccas, Alexander's son, was the reigning king.

These Macedonians, unable to take the field against so numerous an
invader, shut themselves up in such strong places and fortresses as the
country possessed. Of these there was no great number, most of those now
found in the country having been erected subsequently by Archelaus