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Now the participants in the sacrilege met in this fashion with their just retribution from the deity. And the most renowned cities because of their part in the outrage were later defeated in war by Antipater,1 and lost at one and the same time their leadership and their freedom.

1 Presumably refers to Antipater's invasion of the Peloponnese and the defeat of Agis, cp. Book 17.63.1-3 and 73.5-6, and also to the defeat of Athens after the Lamian War, cp. Book 18.18.1-6.

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