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ALIFIRA (Ancient city) ILIA
After the co-settlement of Megalopolis Aliphera was still a
town that belonged to Arcadia until 244 BC, when Lydiades, tyrant of Megalopolis,
gave it to the Eleans. So, when the war among the allies started, Aliphera was
considered an enemy by the Achaeans. It is possible that Philip would not have
attacked the town, had it remained neutral. The Eleans, however, had asked the
Aetolians to help them and the Aetolian Phillidas sent mercenaries to Aliphera.
This fact made Philip attack first the walls of Aliphera and then the town, setting
its acropolis in fire. The Alipherans surrendered in order to save themselves
and the Macedonians established a garrison in Aliphera. It was a man named Cleonymus
that freed Aliphera from that garrison, as well as from the pirates that had reached
it (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, pp.282-288, note4).
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