So many disturbances arising on all hands were sufficient to awaken an inactive general.

He dismissed the ambassadors, promising to assist them all according as opportunity and circumstances allowed.

For the present, he sent to Peparethus a body of troops to garrison the city, for this was the most urgent business, as information had been received thence that Attalus, crossing over to Lemnos, was devastating all the neighbouring country.

He sent Polyphantas with a small detachment to Boeotia, and also Menippus, one of his guards, with one thousand targeteers (the target is not unlike the ordinary buckler) to Chalcis.

Five hundred Agrianians were added, that every part of the island might be secured.