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104 DEMETRIUS. near Megara, and set out with a few liglit-armed attend- ants for Patrse, where she was now staying. And, quit- ting these also, he pitched his tent apart from everybody, that the woman might pay her visit without being seen. This some of the enemy perceived, and suddenly attacked him ; and, in his alarm, he was obliged to disguise himself in a shabby cloak, and run for it, narrowly escaping the shame of being made a prisoner, in reward for his foolish passion. And as it was, his tent and money were taken. Megara, however, surrendered, and would have been pil- laged by the soldiers, but for the urgent intercession of the Athenians. The garrison was driven out, and the city restored to independence. While he was occupied in this, he remembered that Stilpo, the philosopher, famous for his choice of a life of tranquillity, was residing here. He, therefore, sent for him, and begged to know whether any thing Ijelonging to him had been taken. " No," re- plied Stilpo, " I have not met with any one to take away knowledge." Pretty nearly all the servants in the city had been stolen away ; and so, when Demetrius, renewing his courtesies to Stilpo, on taking leave of him, said, "I leaVe your city, Stilpo, a city of freemen," " certainly," replied Stilpo, " there is not one serving man left among us all" Returning from Megara, he sat down before the citadel of Munychia, which in a few days he took by assault, and caused the fortifications to be demolished ; and thus hav- ing accomplished his design, upon the request and invi- tation of the Athenians he made his entrance into the upper city, where, causing the people to be summoned, he publicly announced to them that their ancient consti- tution was restored, and that they should receive from his father, Antigonus, a present of one hundred and fifty thousand measures of wheat, and such a supply of timber as would enable them to build a hundred galleys. In