And so, after he had been overcome in a battle at Phylacia by Bithys the general of Demetrius, and reports were rife, one that he had been captured, and another that he was dead, Diogenes, the guardian of the Peiraeus, sent a letter to Corinth ordering the Achaeans to quit the city, since Aratus had been killed;
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. 11.
Remark :
topology: Although "Phylacia" is named here as the battlefield, the exact location of the place is unknown, see Plutarco: Le vite di Arato e di Artaserse, a cura di Mario Manfredini, Domenica Paola Orsi e Virginio Antelami, Roma 1987, 221.
