. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. esuccession for her own children, conspired with Ptolemy Ceraunusagainst the life of Agathocles. She even procured the consent ofLysimachus to his murder ; and after some vain attempts to makeaway with him by poison, he was flung into prison, where PtolemyCeraunus despatched him with his own hand. Lysandra, the motherof Agathocles, fled with the rest of her family to Seleucus, to demand 280. ASSASSINATION OF SELEUCUS. 213 from him protection and vengeance; and Seleucus, induced bythe hopes of success, inspired b
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. esuccession for her own children, conspired with Ptolemy Ceraunusagainst the life of Agathocles. She even procured the consent ofLysimachus to his murder ; and after some vain attempts to makeaway with him by poison, he was flung into prison, where PtolemyCeraunus despatched him with his own hand. Lysandra, the motherof Agathocles, fled with the rest of her family to Seleucus, to demand 280. ASSASSINATION OF SELEUCUS. 213 from him protection and vengeance; and Seleucus, induced bythe hopes of success, inspired by the discontent and dissensionswhich so foul an act had excited among the subjects of Lysi-machus, espoused her cause. The hostilities which ensued betweenhim and Lysimachus were brought to a termination by thebattle of Corupedion, fought near Sardis in 281, in which Lysi-machus was defeated and slain. By this victory, Macedonia, andthe whole of Alexanders empire, with the exception of Egypt,southern Syria, Cyprus, and part of Phoenicia, fell under the sceptreof Coin of Seleucus. That monarch, who had not beheld his native land sincehe first joined the expedition of Alexander, now crossed theHellespont to take possession of Macedonia. Ptolemy Ceraunus,who after the battle of Corupedion had thrown himself on themercy of Seleucus, and had been received with forgiveness andfavour, accompanied him on this journey. The murder of Aga-thocles had not been committed by Ptolemy merely to obligeArsinoe. He had even then designs upon the supreme power,which he now completed by another crime. As Seleucus stoppedto sacrifice at a celebrated altar near Lysimachia in Thrace,Ptolemy treacherously assassinated him by stabbing him in theback (280). After this base and cowardly act, Ptolemy Ceraunus,who gave himself out as the avenger of Lysimachus, was, by oneof those movements wholly inexplicable to our modern notions,saluted king by the army; but the Asiatic dominions of Seleucusfe
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