History of the Peloponnesian War

who, on arriving in Macedonia first, found that the former thousand had just taken Therme, and were besieging Pydna.

So they also sat down before Pydna, and besieged it; but afterwards, having made terms and a compulsory alliance [*]( i. e. which they only made because they could not help it. Compare II. 70. 1, βρώσεως πέρι ἀναγκαίας Food which none but a starving man would eat. —Arnold) with Perdiccas, as they were hurried on by Potidaea and the arrival of Aristeus there, they withdrew from Macedonia;