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 TIMOTHEUS IN MACEDONIA. 301 ing strength during the years of recent Spartan humiliation ; so that Perdikkas now found his account in assisting Athens to sub- due or enfeeble it, just as his father Amyntas had invoked Sparta for the like purpose. Timotheus, with the assistance of Perdik- kas, was very successful in these parts ; making himself master of Torone, Potidoea, Pydna, Methone, and various other places. A.S he mastered many of the Chalkidic towns allied with Olyn- thus, the means and adherents still retained by that city became so much diminished, that Timotheus is spoken of loosely as hav- ing conquered it. 1 Here, as at Samos, he obtained his successes not only without cost to Athens, but also (as we are told) without severities upon the allies, simply from the regular contributions of the Thracian confederates of Athens, assisted by the employment of a temporary coinage of base metal. 2 Yet though Timotheus was thus victorious in and near the Thermaic Gulf, he was not more fortunate than his predecessor in his attempt to achieve that which Athens had most at heart, the capture of Amphipolis ; although, by the accidental capture of Charidemus at sea, he was enabled again to enlist that chief with his band, whose services seem to have been gratefully appreciated at Athens. 3 Timotheua first despatched Alkimachus, who was repulsed, then landed himself and attacked the city. But the Amphipolitans, aided by the neighboring Thracians, in large numbers (and perhaps by the Thracian Kotys), made so strenuous a resistance, that he was forced to retire with loss ; and even to burn some triremes, which, having been carried across to assail the city from the wide part of ad Philippi Epistolam (p. 154. s. 9). This can hardly allude to anything else than the war carried on by Timotheus on those coasts in 364 B. c. See also Polysen. iii, 10, 14. 1 Diodor. xv, 81 ; Cornelius Nepos, Timoth. 1 ; Isokrates, Or. xv, (De Permut.) s. 115-119; Deinarchus cont. Demosth. s. 14. cont. Philokl. s. 19. I give in the text what I apprehend to be the real truth contained in the large assertion of Isokrates, XaA/adetf uTcavraf KaTETrohe/iTjaev (s. 119). The orator states that Timotheus acquired twenty-four cities in all ; but this total probably comprises his conquests in other times as well as in other places. The expression of Ncpos " Olynthios bello subegit " vague. 3 Demosthcn. cont. Aristokrat. p. 669. s. 177.
 * Isokrates, I. c. ; Aristotel. (Economic, ii, 22 ; Polyaen. iii, 10, 14.