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Consternation produced by the elephants. Plan of defense against them. The iron spikes. Olympias finally concludes to go to Macedon. Eurydice's troops desert her. Olympias in her chariot. Eurydice is captured. She is sent to a dungeon. Death of Philip. Eurydice's despair. he cell. Eurydice's dreadful end. Cassander's movements. Olympias acts in the most energetic manner. The siege of Pydna.
There were two considerations which led him to do this. In the first place, Cassander was his most formidable enemy, and the prospect of his being ultimately restored again to his throne would depend almost entirely, he well knew, upon the possibility of destroying, or at least curtailing, Cassander's power. Then, besides, Demetrius was especially his friend.
All which made such a deep impression of terror in Cassander's mind, that long after when he was king of Macedonia, and master of Greece, as he was walking up and down at Delphi, and looking at the statues, at the sight of that of Alexander he was suddenly struck with alarm, and shook all over, his eyes rolled, his head grew dizzy, and it was long before he recovered himself.
For himself, he declared he would not, in spite of all his curiosity, put his foot in the city, till he had completed its deliverance by driving out the garrison. So, blockading Munychia with a palisade and trench, he sailed off to attack Megara, where also there was one of Cassander's garrisons.
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