[193] Antigonus, called the One-eyed, was father of Demetrius Poliorcetes. On the division of Alexander’s empire he received Phrygia, Lycia, and Pamphylia. He eventually acquired the whole of Asia Minor; but was defeated and slain at the battle of Ipsus by the allied forces of Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus (B.C. 301). When he was slain he was in his eighty-first year.
[194] Balacrus was left by Alexander to command in Egypt. See Arrian (iii. 5).
[195] The capital of the old Phrygian kings. It was rebuilt in the time of Augustus, and called Juliopolis.
[196] This Ptolemy was killed at the battle of Issus (Arrian, ii. 110).
[197] We learn from Curtius (iv. 34) that Alexander released these prisoners at the request of ambassadors from Athens, who met him in Syria after his return from Egypt.
[198] The other cities of Lesbos were Methymna, Antissa, Eresus, and Pyrrha.
[199] Now called Cape Sigri, the west point of the island.
[200] The southern point of Euboea, now called Cape Mandili. Cf. Homer (Odyss., iii. 177).
[201] The south-eastern point of Laconia, now called Cape Malia di St. Angelo. It was dreaded by ancient mariners; see Homer (Odyssey, ix. 80); Ovid (Amores, ii. 16, 24); Vergil (Aeneid, v. 193). There was a saying:—Μαλέας δὲ κάμψας ἐπιλάθου τῶν οἴκαδε (Strabo, viii. p. 250).
[202] In accordance with the convention of Corinth. Compare next chapter. For the pillars compare Herodotus (ii. 102, 106); Thucydides (v. 18, 47, 56); Aristophanes (Acharnians, 727; Lysistrata, 513).