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78-8o] BRASIDAS ARRIVES IN CIIALCIDICk 59 panying him. Brasidas himself added that he came as a friend to the Thessahan land and people, and that he was making war upon his enemies the Athenians, and not upon them. He had never heard that there was any ill- feeling between the Thessalians and Lacedaemonians which prevented either of them from passing through the territory of the other; however, if they refused their con- sent, he would not and indeed could not go on ; but such was not the treatment which he had a right to expect from them. Upon this they departed, and he by the advice of his escort, fearing that a large force might collect and stop him, marched on at full speed and without a halt. On the same day on which he started from Melitia he arrived at Pharsalus, and encamped by the river Apidanus. Thence he went on to Phacium, and thence to Perrhaebia. Here his Thessalian escort returned ; and the Perrhaebians, who are subjects of the Thessalians, brought him safe to Dium in the territory of Perdiccas, a city of Macedonia which is situated under Mount Olympus on the Thessalian side. Thus Brasidas succeeded in running through Thessaly 79 before any measures were taken to Brasidas reaches Per- stop him, and reached Perdiccas and diccas. Chalcidice. He and the revolted tributaries of the Athenians, alarmed at their recent successes, had invited the Peloponnesians. The Chalcidians were expecting that the first efforts of the Athenians would be directed against them : their cities in the neighbourhood also which had not revolted secretly joined in the invitation. Perdiccas was not a declared enemy of Athens, but was afraid that the old differences between himself and the Athenians might revive, and he was especially anxious to subdue Arrhibaeus, king of the Lyncestians. The Lacedaemonians were the more willing to let the 80 Chalcidians have an army from Peloponnesus owing to the unfortunate state of their affairs. For now that the Athenians were infesting Peloponnesus, and especially