[167] See, in reference to these incidents, my last preceding volume, Vol. XI. Ch. xc. p. 441 seq.
[168] Diodor. xvi. 52; Curtius, vi. 4, 25; vi. 5, 2. Curtius mentions also Manapis, another Persian exile, who had fled from Ochus to Philip.
[169] Diodor. xvi. 52. About the strength of the fortress of Athens, see Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 2, 11; Diodor. xiii. 64. It had been held in defiance of the Persians, even before the time of Hermeias—Isokrates. Compare also Isokrates, Or. iv. (Panegyr.) s. 167.
[170] Letter of Alexander, addressed to Darius after the battle of Issus, apud Arrian, ii. 14, 7. Other troops sent by the Persians into Thrace (besides those despatched to the relief of Perinthus), are here alluded to.
[171] Demosthenes, Philippic. iv. p. 139, 140; Epistola Philippi apud Demosthen. p. 160.
[172] Diodor. xvii. 5; Justin, x. 3; Curtius, x. 5, 22.
[173] Arrian, ii. 14, 10.
[174] Diodor. xvii. 7.
[175] Arrian, ii. 14, 11.
[176] Diodor. xvii. 7.