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Excerpt from The General History of Polybius, Vol. 3 But while Philip and the Macedonians were thus busy in completing all the naval preparations, Apell es, perceiv ing that the king was no longer governed by him as before, and being unable to support the loss of his satho rity, formed secretly an engagement with Leontius and Megaleas, by which it was agreed, that these two, still remaining near the king, should be ready, as occasion served, to frustrate all his counsels, and obstruct his mea sures; and that himself, in the mean while, would go to Chalcis, and take care to stop all supplies that were ex pected to come that way. When this wicked project was thus concerted, Apelles, having by 'some false pretences obtained permission to depart, went accordingly to Chal cis; and there, with the help of that authority which had grown from his former credit with the king, he so well performed his part in this base and treacherous engage ment, that Philip was at last reduced to an entire want of necessaries, and forced even to set his plate in pawn, in order to procure a subsistence from it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.