Aristion induces Athens to revoltSulla lands in Epirus, and besieges Athens and the PiraeusHis difficultiesHe takes Athens and the Piraeus, and defeats Archelaus at Chaeroneia and OrchomenusTerms offered to MithridatesTyranny of the latterFlaccus comes to Asia and is murdered by Fimbria, who is soon afterwards put to death by Sulla CHAPTER XIII.

MARCH OF SULLA AND ARCHELAUS BEFORE CHAERONEIA BATTLE OF CHAERONEIA THE GRACCHI, MARIUS AND SULLA.

But Sulla hastened back, too, after leaving Hortensius to support Murena, and, when he appeared, the right wing drove back Archelaus to the Cephissus.

"To begin then,[201] bees are generated partly by other bees and partly from the decaying carcase of an ox: so Archelaus in one of his epigrams calls them 'flitting offspring of decaying beef,' and else where he says, 'wasps spring from horses, bees from calves.'

This Archelaus on his father's side belonged to those Archelauses who had contended against the Romans, but on his mother's side was the son of Glaphyra, an hetaera.

He got past the crescent wall, only to find other walls similarly constructed behind it; but he gradually drove Archelaus into Munychia, or the peninsular part of Piraeus, and as he had no ships he could do nothing more.

Nicomedes fled to Aquillius, who was defeated by Archelaus near Mount Scorobas, and fled with the king across the Sangarius to Pergamus, whence he attempted to reach Rhodes.

At last, wearied by this dogged resistance, Sulla turned the siege of the Piraeus also into a blockade, which meant simply that he hindered Archelaus from helping Athens, for he could not prevent the influx of supplies from the sea.

Sulla then formed a camp at Eleusis and continued the siege, and so shook the great tower of Archelaus by a simultaneous discharge of twelve leaden balls from his catapults that it had to be drawn back.