There the legions would be at no great distance from Thessaly, and the places belonging to the enemy; while they would have in front Peloponnesus, separated from them by a narrow sea; on their rear, Aetolia and Acarnania; and on their sides, Locris and Boeotia.

Phanotea in Phocis he took without resistance at the first assault.

The siege of Anticyra gave him not much delay.

Then Ambrysus and Hyampolis were taken.

Daulis, being situated on a lofty eminence, could not be reduced either by scalade or works: he therefore provoked the garrison, by missile weapons, to make sallies from out the town.