126 DEMETRIUS. until he was borne down by a whole multitude of darts, and fell. His other followers and friends fled, and Thorax of Larissa remained alone by the body.* The battle having been thus decided, the kings who had gained the victory, carving up the whole vast empire that had belonged to Demetrius and Antigonus, like a carcass, into so many portions, added these new gains to their former possessions. As for Demeti'ius, with five thousand foot and four thousand horse, he fled at his ut- most speed to Ephesus, where it was the common opinion he would seize the treasures of the temple to relieve his wants ; but he, on the contrary, fearing such an attempt on the part of his soldiers, hastened away, and sailed for Greece, his chief remaining hopes being placed in the fidelity of the Athenians, with whom he had left part of his navy and of his treasure and his wife Deidamia. And in their attachment he had not the least doubt but he should in this his extremity find a safe resource. Accordingly when, upon reaching the Cyclades, he was met by ambassadors from Athens, requesting him not to proceed to the city, as the people had passed a vote to admit no king whatever within their walls, and had con- veyed Deidamia with honorable attendance to Megara, his anger and surprise overpowered him, and the con- stancy quite failed him which he had hitherto shown in a wonderful degree under his reverses, nothing humiliat- ing or mean-spirited having as yet been seen in him under all his misfortunes. But to be thus disappointed in the Athenians, and to find the friendship he had trusted prove, upon trial, thus empty and unreal, was a great pang to him. And, in truth, an excessive display of out-
- This is the battle of Ipsus, re- tie of Ipsus, at which all the kings
ferred to presently by Plutarch of the world were gathered to- under that name, which in the ac- gether." It determined the for- count itself does not occur. He tunes of Asia down to the time of speaks, also, elsewhere of " the bat- the Roman conquests.
