[639] In Thessaly. The action was fought B.C. 322. Menon with his Thessalian horse defeated the Macedonian cavalry, but the Greek infantry were beaten back by the phalanx, with a loss of 120 men.
[640] Plutarch speaks as if Leonnatus had effected his junction with Antipater before the action was fought. But the real truth was that Leonnatus advanced to raise the siege of Lamia, and that Antiphilus, who was not strong enough to continue the blockade and fight the relieving force, raised the blockade and moved by rapid marches to attack Leonnatus apart from Antipater. Through the superior efficiency of the Thessalian cavalry under Menon, he gained an important advantage in a cavalry battle over Leonnatus, who was himself slain. On the very next day Antipater came up, bringing the troops from Lamia, and took command of the defeated army.
[641] See Smith's Dict. of Antiquities, s.v. Graphé Paranomon.
[642] Demades, although Plutarch does not mention it, accompanied Phokion on his first visit to Antipater.
[643] The successor of Plato and Speusippus as presiding teacher in the school of the Academy.
[644] The expression in the text is vague, but we learn from other sources that the surrender of at least two other anti-Macedonian orators was demanded.
[645] Grote.
[646] See vol. i., Life of Alkibiades, ch. 34.
[647] The three sub-divisions of Port Peiræus were named Kantharus, Aphredisium and Zea. See Leake, 'Topography of Athens,' and Schol. in Ar. Pac. 144.
[648] The upright threads of the loom are meant, not a large rope.