The confederate Greeks are defeated by Antipater at Crannon; end of the Lamian War.

The rhetorical education made men good professional orators, but indifferent and dilettante historians, and the example of more accurate historical investigation and reflection set by Polybius was not followed, except perhaps by Caelius Antipater in the Gracchan age.

"Not stone only, but steel would be melted by Eros," cried Antipater of Sidon.