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Often appears with: thermopylae · strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · philip and consul meeting · mining under ground · arms, armor, and machines
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While Heraclea falls, Philip besieges Lamia; he meets the consul at Thermopylae, coordinates simultaneous sieges, uses mines and works, and is induced to relent once Heraclea is reduced.
the Aetolians were encamped there, it should be delivered to him." On account of this presumptuous insolence of his, his surrender was a matter of greater satisfaction to the victors. 25. At the same time, while the Romans were employed in the reduction of Heraclea, Philip, by concert, besieged Lamia. He had an interview with the consul, as he was returning from Boeotia, at Thermopylae, whither he came to congratula…