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they, with their weapons, should go through the mainland to the emperor. For this will bring great benefit to him and no small glory to us. And one must not, considering the obstacles and stumbling blocks in the way, shrink from the struggle. For no one ever, by lying back and snoring, has set up a trophy over the enemy; but one must look to the end of the labors, as it will bring much and great honor. These things, therefore, seemed to me both just and advantageous, and I will be the first to do them and will advise the others. But if to any of you, looking at the magnitude of the labors and dangers, it does not seem best to undertake such things, I will be the first to burn my ship and will march with my weapons; and whoever has chosen to share the danger with me will follow. As for the rest, having your ships, do whatever seems dear and profitable to you.” 2.390 Thus Amour, having spoken to the Persian commanders, persuaded them all that he was advising things both just and profitable. But only sixty admirals chose to share the danger with their crews. The others insisted that a little later, having found favorable winds, they would come to Macedonia again to join the satrap. Thus it was decided by common consent, and having come from Euboea to the coast of Locris, the others remained quiet in their ships, but Amour and the sixty admirals, who were to join him in the bold undertaking, having beached their ships and taken up their weapons and carrying flour, with which they were to be fed on the journey, and Amour himself likewise with all the others, camped there for the night by the shore, so that at dawn, having burned their ships, they might take the road leading to Beroea. But during that night, when the contrary winds ceased and favorable ones blew, having launched the beached ships and having raised sail all together, on the next day they put in not far from Thessalonica at a harbor called Clopas, partly because they thought the megas doux was in Thessalonica and wished, if it so happened, to fight a naval battle against him, and partly because the opposite coast of Botiaea is mostly harborless and unable to accommodate so great a fleet at the same time. 64. The Persian force, therefore, as soon as they learned that the 2.391 megas doux had sailed away to Byzantium, overran all the lands around Thessalonica, plundered them, and enslaved not a few. But Amour, on the next day, having selected fifty ships, sent them to Pydna, so that from there half would come to Beroea, to go with the emperor to Thessalonica, while the rest would return with the ships. But the emperor, when he learned that the barbarians had put in at Pydna, made it a matter of all urgency that the land under the Kral's rule should suffer no harm, and sending word, he ordered everyone to be brought into the cities and fortresses, announcing the attack of the barbarians. And indeed, not one of them was enslaved; nor, for that matter, from the land under the emperor's rule. And he himself, having rewarded the best of the Thessalians and Beroeans for their loyalty to him with worthy honors and fitting benefactions, then also deemed the rest of the army worthy of the necessary provisions, and having appointed Manuel, the younger of his sons, as ruler of Beroea and the other towns that had joined him, and having appointed with him also Angelos his nephew, who had previously been entrusted with the rule of Thessaly, and having ordered that, if they needed anything, each should assist the other, and having set out for them a model of a mild and unburdensome rule, and having arranged the other matters well, he also sent an embassy to the Kral. And he made it clear that, even if his treaties and alliance with him were renounced, he himself, remembering the honor and the friendship which he had enjoyed while staying with him, 2.392 was neither moved to anger, nor had he broken the treaties, considering it absurd not to make it clear by deeds themselves what sort of man he was regarding repaying friends to whom he himself had chosen to show such good will. And for now

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αὐτοὺς δὲ τὰ ὅπλα ἔχοντας, ἰέναι διὰ τῆς ἠπείρου πρὸς βασιλέα. τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκείνῳ τε μεγάλην οἴσει τὴν ὠφέλειαν καὶ ἡμῖν τὴν εὐδοξίαν οὐ μικράν. οὐ χρὴ δὲ τὰ ἐν μέσῳ σκῶλα καὶ προσκόμματα λογιζομένους ἀποκνεῖν πρὸς τὸν ἀγῶνα. οὐδεὶς γάρ ποτε ἀνακείμενος καὶ ῥέγχων τρόπαιον ἔστησεν ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων· ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ τῶν πόνων τέλος ἀφορᾷν, ὡς πολλὴν οἴσει καὶ μεγάλην τὴν φιλοτιμίαν. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἐμοὶ δίκαιά τε ἔδοξε καὶ συμφέροντα ὁμοῦ καὶ αὐτός τε ποιήσω πρῶτος καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις συμβουλεύσω. εἰ δέ τισιν ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸ τῶν πόνων καὶ τῶν κινδύνων ἀφορῶσι μέγεθος, οὐ μάλιστα δοκεῖ τοιούτοις ἐπιχειρητέον εἶναι, ἀλλ' ἐγὼ πρῶτος τήν τε ναῦν ἐμπρήσω καὶ τὰ ὅπλα ἔχων βαδιοῦμαι· συνέψεται δὲ καὶ ὅστις εἵλετο ἐμοὶ συγκινδυνεύειν. οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ, τὰς ναῦς ἔχοντες, ὅ,τι φίλον ὑμῖν καὶ λυσιτελὲς δοκεῖ, ποιεῖ 2.390 τε.» οὕτω πρὸς τοὺς ἐν τέλει τῶν Περσῶν Ἀμοὺρ διαλεχθεὶς, πάντας μὲν ἔπεισεν ὡς δίκαιά τε ὁμοῦ καὶ λυσιτελοῦντα συμβουλεύει. εἵλοντο δὲ ἑξήκοντα μόνον ναύαρχοι συγκινδυνεύειν μετὰ τῶν πληρωμάτων. οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι ἰσχυρίζοντο, ὡς ὀλίγῳ ὕστερον οὐρίων τυχόντες τῶν ἀνέμων ἐλεύσονται εἰς τὴν Μακεδονίαν αὖθις τῷ σατράπῃ συνεσόμενοι. οὕτω μὲν οὖν ἐδέδοκτο κοινῇ, καὶ ἐκ τῆς Εὐβοίας εἰς τὴν Λοκρίδος παράλιον ἐλθόντες, οἱ ἄλλοι μὲν ἡσύχαζον ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν, Ἀμοὺρ δὲ καὶ οἱ ἑξήκοντα ναύαρχοι, οὓς ἔδει πρὸς τὸ τόλμημα συναίρεσθαι ἐκείνῳ, ἀνελκύσαντες τὰς ναῦς καὶ ὅπλα τε ἀναλαβόντες καὶ ἄλευρα ἐπιφερόμενοι, οἷς ἔμελλον διατραφήσεσθαι πρὸς τὴν ὁδὸν, καὶ Ἀμοὺρ αὐτὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις ὁμοίως πᾶσιν, ηὐλίσαντο αὐτοῦ τὴν νύκτα παρὰ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν, ὡς ἅμα ἕῳ τὰς ναῦς ἐμπρήσαντες, τῆς εἰς Βέῤῥοιαν ἔχωνται φερούσης. τῆς νυκτὸς δὲ ἐκείνης τῶν ἐναντίων πνευμάτων παυσαμένων, οὐρίων δὲ ἐπιπνευσάντων, τὰς ἀνειλκυσμένας καθελκύσαντες καὶ ἅμα πάσαις ἄραντες ἱστία, εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν προσέσχον οὐ μακρὰν Θεσσαλονίκης ἐν λιμένι τοῦ Κλωπᾶ προσαγορευομένῳ, τοῦτο μὲν οἰόμενοι καὶ μέγαν δοῦκα ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ εἶναι καὶ βουλόμενοι εἰ τύχοι πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ναυμαχεῖν, τοῦτο δ' ὅτι καὶ ἡ ἀντιπέραν παράλιος τῆς Βοτιαίας ἀλίμενος τὰ πολλά ἐστι καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐν ταὐτῷ στόλον ὑποδέχεσθαι μὴ δυναμένη. ξδʹ. Τὸ μὲν οὖν Περσικὸν αὐτίκα, ἐπεὶ ἐπύθοντο τὸν 2.391 μέγαν δοῦκα ἀποπεπλευκέναι εἰς Βυζάντιον, τὰ περὶ Θεσσαλονίκην ἅπαντα ἐπιδραμόντες χωρία ἐληΐζοντο καὶ ἠνδραπόδισαν οὐκ ὀλίγους. Ἀμοὺρ δὲ εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν πεντήκοντα ναῦς ἀπολεξάμενος, ἔπεμψεν εἰς Πύδναν, ὡς ἐκεῖθεν τοὺς μὲν ἡμίσεις ἥξοντας εἰς Βέῤῥοιαν, ὡς ἅμα βασιλεῖ ἐλευσομένους εἰς Θεσσαλονίκην, τοὺς ἐπιλοίπους δὲ ἐπανήξοντας ταῖς ναυσί. βασιλεὺς δὲ ἐπεὶ πύθοιτο τοὺς βαρβάρους Πύδνᾳ προσχόντας, διὰ σπουδῆς μὲν ἐποιήσατο πάσης τὴν ὑπὸ Κράλην τελοῦσαν χώραν μηδὲν ζημιωθῆναι, καὶ πέμψας ἐκέλευε πάντας εἰς τὰς πόλεις καὶ τὰ φρούρια εἰσάγεσθαι, τὴν ἔφοδον μηνύων τῶν βαρβάρων. καὶ ἠνδραποδίσθη γε ἐξ ἐκείνων οὐδὲ εἷς· οὔτε μὴν ἐκ τῆς ὑπὸ βασιλέα τελούσης χώρας. αὐτὸς δὲ Θετταλῶν τε τοὺς ἀρίστους καὶ Βεῤῥοιωτῶν τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν εὐνοίας ἀξίαις τε ἀμειψάμενος καὶ εὐεργεσίαις ταῖς προσηκούσαις, ἔπειτα καὶ τὴν ἄλλην στρατιὰν προνοίας τῆς δεούσης ἀξιώσας, καὶ Μανουὴλ τὸν νεώτερον τῶν υἱῶν Βεῤῥοίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πολιχνίων, ἃ προσεχώρησαν αὐτῷ, ἀποδείξας ἄρχοντα, συστήσας δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ Ἄγγελον τὸν ἀνεψιὸν, ὃς Θετταλίας πρότερον ἐνεχειρίσθη τὴν ἀρχὴν, καὶ κελεύσας, ἤν τι δέωνται, ἑκάτερος ἀλλήλοις ἐπιμαχεῖν, τύπον τε ἐκθέμενος αὐτοῖς ἡμέρου καὶ ἀνεπαχθοῦς ἀρχῆς, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα εὖ διοικησάμενος, πρεσβείαν ἐποιεῖτο καὶ πρὸς Κράλην. ἐδήλου τε, ὡς, εἰ καὶ ἐκείνῳ αἱ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀπαγορευθεῖεν σπονδαὶ καὶ ἡ συμμαχία, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς μεμνημένος τῆς τιμῆς καὶ τῆς φι 2.392 λίας, ἧς ἀπέλαυσε διάγων παρ' αὐτῷ, μήτε κεκινῆσθαι πρὸς ὀργὴν, μήτε διαλελυκέναι τὰς σπονδὰς, ἄτοπον εἶναι ἡγησάμενος, μὴ ἔργοις αὐτοῖς θέσθαι φανερὸν, εἰς οἷον ὄντα περὶ τὸ ἀμείβεσθαι τοὺς φίλους εἵλετο αὐτὸς ἐπιδείξασθαι τοσαύτην εὔνοιαν. καὶ νῦν μὲν