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 176 THE KINGDOM OF SITALCES [11 beginning of the war, he wanted Sitalces to reconcile him to the Athenians 'i, and not to restore and place on the throne his brother Philip, who was his enemy; but Per- diccas did not keep his word. The other was a promise which Sitalces had himself made to the Athenians when he entered into alliance with them, that he would put an end to their war with the Chalcidians. For these two reasons he invaded the country, taking with him Amyntas the son of Philip, whom he intended to make king of Macedon, and also certain Athenian envoys who had just come to remind him of his engagement, and an Athenian commander Hagnon. For the Athenians on their part were bound to assist him against the Chalcidians with ships and with as large an army as they could provide. 96 Accordingly Sitalces, beginning with the Odrysae, made T, r re -J I ^ levy of all his Thracian subjects The forces of Sitalces. , ,,. j^^>"=' dwellmg between Mount Haemus and Mount Rhodope as far as the shores of the Euxine and of the Hellespont. Beyond the Haemus he made a levy of the Getae and of all the tribes lying more towards the Euxine on this side of the Ister. Now the Getae and their neighbours border on the Scythians, and are equipped like them, for they are all horse-archers. He also sum- moned to his standard many of the highland Thracians, who are independent and carry dirks ; they are called Dii, and most of them inhabit Mount Rhodope; of these some were attracted by pay, while others came as volunteers. He further called out the Agrianians, the Laeaeans, and the other Paeonian nations who were his subjects. These tribes were the last within his empire ; they extended as far as the Graaean Paeonians and the river Strymon, which rises in Mount Scombrus and flows through the country of the Graaeans and Laeaeans ; there his dominion ended and the independent Paeonians began. In the » The reconciliation had been effected through the instrumentality of Nymphodorus ; ii. 29.