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[6] Antipater took as hostages fifty of the most notable of the Spartiates, and the Lacedaemonians sent envoys1 to Asia asking forgiveness for their mistakes.

1 Curtius 6.1.20. This delegation is to be distinguished from the Spartan envoys to Dareius whom Alexander arrested (Curtius 6.5.7; Arrian. 3.24.4).

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