The Phocians, now led by Onomarchus, debate…

The Phocians, now led by Onomarchus, debate whether to make peace, but Onomarchus persuades is countrymen to melt down gold and silver ornaments to make coins to pay another army; and has bronze and iron beaten into new armor and weapons.

Onomarchus now forms an alliance with Lycrophon, the ruler of the Thessalian city of Pherae.

Thessaly as a whole had been willing enough to declare war on Phocis in keeping with an enmity of immemorial antiquity already remarked on as long-standing by Herodotus in the context of the Persian Wars.

Nonetheless, Thessalian unity is limited, as is Theban ability to influence events in Thessaly, and Onomarchus evidently succeeds in exploiting this fluid situation.

In a further complication, …