ed, and finding
that the battle was lost, called the other chiefs round him, advised them
to kill all the wounded men, and make their retreat as best they might,
and then stabbed himself to set the example. The others tried to
retreat, but were set upon by the Greeks, tormented, and starved; and it
is said that all who had marched to Delphi perished, and the only Gauls
of all this host who survived were a party who had crossed the
Hellespont, and made a settlement in the very heart of Asia Minor, where
they were known by the name of Galatians, and still kept up their own
language.

[Picture: Delphi and the Castalian Fount]

When they had thus cut off Keraunus, Antigonus came from Greece, and took
possession of Macedon. He made a treaty with Antiochus, who had
succeeded his father Seleucus in Syria, and thenceforth the family
founded by Antigonus the One-eyed held Macedon. This Antigonus is called
Gonatas, from the name of a guard for the knee which he wore.

Pyrrhus, in the meantime, set out on a wild expedition to help the Greek
colonies in Italy against the Romans, hoping to make himself as famous in
the West as Alexander had done in the East; but the story of his doings
there belongs to the history of Rome, so that I will leave it. He was
absent six years, and came home unsuccessful to harass Antigonus again.
For a few years the Macedonians again went over to Pyrrhus, and he tried
to conquer Greece, marching against Sparta with 25,000 men, 2000 horse,
and 24 elephants. He assaulted the city, but Spartan bravery was still
enough to beat him off twice. However, he wintered in the Peloponnesus,
and in the spring attacked the city of Argos, which was watched over by
Antigonus, with his army, on a hill near at hand. Pyrrhus had shown
himself so skilful a general that Antigonus would not fight a battle with
him, and at night some traitors invited Pyrrhus into Argos, with some of
his troops; but another party admitted Antigonus' son and his forces. In
the morning Pyrrhus saw how he had been caught, and sent a message to his
son Helenus outside to break down part of the wall, that he might
retreat; but there was some blunder in the message, and Helenus thought
he was to come in to help his father, so his men going in and Pyrrhus'
going out met in the gateway and choked it. Matters were made worse by
one of the elephants falling down and blocking up the street, while
another went mad, and ran about