Demetrius, who was forced to fly in the disguise of a common soldier, and
his wife poisoned herself in despair. However, Demetrius did not lose
courage, but left his son Antigonus to protect Greece, and went into Asia
Minor, hoping to win back some of his father's old kingdom from Seleucus,
but he could get nobody to join him; and after wandering about in hunger
and distress in the Cilician mountains, he was forced to give himself up
a prisoner to Seleucus, who kept him in captivity, but treated him
kindly, and let him hunt in the royal park. His son Antigonus, however,
who still held Greece, wrote to offer himself as a hostage, that his
father might be set free; but before he could reach Syria, Demetrius the
City-taker had died of over-eating and drinking in his captivity, and
only the urn containing his ashes could be sent to his son in Greece.

Pyrrhus had not kept Macedon long, for Lysimachus attacked him, and the
fickle Macedonians all went over to the Thracian, so that he was obliged
to retreat into his own kingdom of Epirus; whilst Seleucus and Lysimachus
began a war, in which Lysimachus was killed; and thus both Thrace and
Macedon were in the hands of Seleucus, who is therefore commonly called
the Conqueror. He was the last survivor of all Alexander's generals, and
held all his empire except Egypt; but while taking possession of
Macedonia he was murdered by a vile Egyptian Greek, whom he had
befriended, named Ptolemy Keraunus. This man, in the confusion that
followed, managed to make himself king of Macedon.

But just at this time the Kelts, or Gauls, the same race who used to
dwell in Britain and Gaul, made one of their great inroads from the
mountains. The Macedonians thought them mere savages, easy to conquer;
but it turned out quite otherwise. The Kelts defeated them entirely, cut
off Ptolemy Keraunus' head, and carried it about upon a pole, and overran
all Thrace and Macedon. Then they advanced to the Pass of Thermopylae,
found the way over Mount OEta by which Xerxes had surprised the Spartans,
and were about to plunder Delphi, their Bran, or chief, being reported to
say that the gods did not want riches as much as men did. The Greeks, in
much grief for their beloved sanctuary, assembled to fight for it, and
they were aided by a terrible storm and earthquake, which dismayed the
Gauls, so that the next morning they were in a dispirited state, and
could not stand against the Greeks. The Bran was wound