Philip’s wound does not incapacitate him completely,…

Philip’s wound does not incapacitate him completely, however; in the following year, he has the energy to reorganize Thessaly into its four old divisions, or “tetrachies.”

Philip meanwhile continues his tactic of setting the Greek city-states, such as Thebes and Sparta, against each other, and penetrates Greece without war, by winning and buying friends among the politicians of the smaller cities and intervening occasionally with subsidies or a force of mercenaries in their local disturbances.