§5.27.1Ἐλατείας ἀνέστρεφε, κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον ὁ Μεγαλέας εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας ἀπεχώρησε, καταλιπὼν τὸν Λεόντιον ἐν ἐγγύῃ τῶν εἴκοσι ταλάντων. §5.27.2τῶν δʼ ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις στρατηγῶν οὐ προσδεξαμένων αὐτόν, μετῆλθε πάλιν εἰς τὰς Θήβας. §5.27.3ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ἀναχθεὶς ἐκ τῶν κατὰ Κίρραν τόπων κατέπλευσε μετὰ τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν εἰς τὸν τῶν Σικυωνίων λιμένα, κἀκεῖθεν ἀναβὰς εἰς τὴν πόλιν τοὺς μὲν ἄρχοντας παρῃτήσατο, παρὰ δʼ Ἄρατον καταλύσας μετὰ τούτου τὴν πᾶσαν ἐποιεῖτο διαγωγήν, τῷ δʼ Ἀπελλῇ συνέταξε πλεῖν εἰς Κόρινθον. §5.27.4προσπεσόντων δὲ τῶν κατὰ τὸν Μεγαλέαν αὐτῷ, τοὺς μὲν πελταστάς, ὧν ἡγεῖτο Λεόντιος, εἰς τὴν Τριφυλίαν ἐξαπέστειλε μετὰ Ταυρίωνος, ὥς τινος χρείας κατεπειγούσης, τούτων δʼ ἀφορμησάντων, ἀπαγαγεῖν ἐκέλευσε τὸν Λεόντιον πρὸς τὴν ἀναδοχήν. §5.27.5συνέντες δʼ οἱ πελτασταὶ τὸ γεγονός, διαπεμψαμένου τινὰ πρὸς αὐτοὺς τοῦ Λεοντίου, πρεσβευτὰς ἐξαπέστειλαν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, παρακαλοῦντες, εἰ μὲν πρὸς ἄλλο τι πεποίηται τὴν ἀπαγωγὴν τοῦ Λεοντίου, μὴ χωρὶς αὑτῶν ποιήσασθαι τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐγκαλουμένων κρίσιν, §5.27.6εἰ δὲ μή, ὅτι νομιοῦσι μεγαλείως παρολιγωρεῖσθαι καὶ καταγινώσκεσθαι πάντες — εἶχον γὰρ ἀεὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἰσηγορίαν Μακεδόνες πρὸς τοὺς βασιλεῖς — §5.27.7εἰ δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἐγγύην τοῦ Μεγαλέου, διότι τὰ χρήματα κατὰ κοινὸν εἰσενέγκαντες ἐκτίσουσιν αὐτοί. §5.27.8τὸν μὲν οὖν Λεόντιον ὁ βασιλεὺς παροξυνθεὶς θᾶττον ἢ προέθετο διὰ τὴν τῶν πελταστῶν
returned from Elatea. At this time Megaleas withdrew to Athens, leaving Leontius as surety for the twenty talents. But when the generals in Athens did not receive him, he went back to Thebes. The king, having put to sea from the district of Cirrha, sailed with his hypaspists into the harbour of Sicyon; and having gone up from there to the city, he declined the invitations of the magistrates, and lodging at the house of Aratus, spent all his time with him, while he ordered Apelles to sail to Corinth. When the news concerning Megaleas reached him, he sent off the peltasts, whom Leontius commanded, to Triphylia with Taurion, on the pretext of some urgent necessity; and when they had set out, he ordered Leontius to be led away to prison because of his surety. The peltasts, having understood what had happened because Leontius had sent someone to them, dispatched envoys to the king, entreating him that, if he had made the arrest of Leontius for some other reason, he should not conduct the trial on the charges without them; otherwise, they would consider themselves all to be greatly slighted and condemned—for the Macedonians always had this kind of freedom of speech towards their kings— but if it was because of the surety for Megaleas, they themselves would pay it by contributing the money in common. The king, therefore, provoked more quickly than he had intended by that of the peltasts, [ordered] Leontius...