Then Demetrius, like a wild beast, hemmed in and attacked on all sides, was driven to defend himself; he overran the country, and when Seleucus attacked him, engaged with him and always had the advantage.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
Remark :
topology: It is not sure where exactly this happened. But according to the previous paragraphs he was somewhere in the Taurus mountains and came down from there. motive: Demetrius' emotional motive is his desparation.
Notes :
Since his troops suffered from starvation we can assume that Demetrius came for plunder rather than an actual conquest. The famine is described in the previous paragraphs.
