Polyaenus
Stratagems of War
Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S.
Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793.
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6.49 Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras, Codrus, and Diodorus, sons of Echeonax, slew Hegesias, tyrant of Ephesus: when Philoxenus, governor of Ionia under Alexander, demanded them to be given up by the Ephesians. But the people not complying with his requisition, he entered the town with a body of troops; apprehended the three brothers, threw them into chains, and imprisoned them in the tower of Sardis. After a long and severe imprisonment, with a file, that had been conveyed to them by a friend, they liberated themselves from their chains; and, habited in servile dresses, escaped as servants out of the prison in the night: then cutting their clothes into long pieces, they used them instead of ropes; and let themselves down by them from the walls. Diodorus unfortunately fell down from the top of the walls; and laming himself, was obliged to lie where he fell: till he was taken up by the Lydians, and sent to Alexander to be punished according to his pleasure. But Alexander dying at Babylon, he was sent to Perdiccas at Ephesus, to take his trial there. In the meantime Anaxagoras and Codrus, who had got clear off, arrived at Athens: and; hearing of Alexander’s death, returned to Ephesus; and set their brother at liberty.
7.25 Dromichaetes
Dromichaetes was king of Thrace, and Lysimachus of Macedon: when the Macedonian made war on Thrace; against whom Dromichaetes employed the following stratagem. Aethis, his general, pretended to resent some insult of the Thracian prince; and deserted to Lysimachus: who trusting to his fidelity, gave himself up to his direction; till he had brought the Macedonian army into such a situation, that they had at once to contend with famine, thirst, and a powerful enemy. Dromichaetes in this situation took his opportunity to attack them: defeated the Macedonians with great slaughter, and took Lysimachus prisoner. The Macedonian army is reported to have amounted to a hundred thousand men.
7.43 The Thracians
The Thracians engaged the Boeotians at the lake Copais, and were defeated: they then retreated to Helicon; and made a truce with the Boeotians for a certain number of days, to give time for settling the conditions of peace. In reliance on their late victory, and the faith of the truce, the Boeotians celebrated a sacrifice in honour of Minerva Itonia. But at night while intent on their ceremony, and engaged in the entertainment, the Thracians armed, and attacked them; cut many of them to pieces, and took a great number of prisoners. The Boeotians afterwards charged them with a breach of the truce: which the Thracians denied; asserting that the terms of the truce expressed a certain number of days, but not a syllable concerning the nights.