 Realising that the Gallic sword was dangerous only at close quarters, the Aetolians resorted to skirmishing tactics.The Gauls destroyed Kallion, on the border between Eurytania and Aetolia, committing horrible atrocities, but the resistance of the entire Aetolian population at the site of Kokkalia, where also the elderly and the women and children fought, dealt a decisive blow to the Galatian threat.According to Pausanias, only half the number who had set out for Aetolia returned.