History of Rome

​Since little of anything succeeded, the consul by no means with a calm mind suffered a comparison of the soldiers and the kind of arms to be made, ​at the same time, he saw neither any near hope of capturing the city nor any plan for wintering far from the sea and in places devastated by the disasters of war.

​Therefore, the siege having been abandoned, because there was no harbor on the entire coast of Acarnania and Aetolia which could both contain at the same time all the transport ships that carried provisions to the army, and provide shelter for the legions for wintering, ​Anticyra in Phocis, facing the Corinthian gulf, seemed most opportunely situated for that purpose, ​because it was not far from Thessaly and the places of the enemy, and had opposite to it the Peloponnese separated by a narrow space of sea, behind it Aetolia and Acarnania, and on its sides Locris and Boeotia.

​At the first onset, he captured Phanotea of Phocis without a struggle. Anticyra presented not much of a delay in besieging. Thereupon Ambrysus and Hyampolis were recovered.

​Daulis, because it is situated on a high hill, could be captured neither by ladders nor by siege works.

​By harassing with missiles those who were in the garrison, when they had enticed them to make sorties, by retreating in turn and pursuing, and by light skirmishes without decisive effect, they brought them to such a state of negligence and contempt that the Romans, mingled with those who were retreating, made a rush into the gate.

​And other ignoble strongholds of Phocis came into their power more through terror than by arms. Elatia closed its gates, nor, unless they should be compelled by force, did they seem likely to admit within their walls either the Roman general or his army.