When bitterly bewailing their evil fate they found all was useless, they sent out the boy with the bodyguard.
The Macedonians then took the king and at once setting him on a horse conducted him to the stadium.
His appearance was greeted with loud cheers and clapping of hands, and they now stopped the horse, took him off, and leading him forward placed him in the royal seat.
The joy of the crowd was mingled with regret, for on the one hand they were delighted at having the boy in their hands, but on the other they were displeased that the guilty persons had not been arrested and punished as they deserved.
So that they continued to shout, demanding that those who had caused all the evil should be taken into custody and made an example.
The day had now advanced, and as the people after all could find no one on whom to vent their resentment, Sosibius, who was the son of Sosibius and at the present time, being a member of the bodyguard, particularly devoted his attention to the king and to affairs of state,
seeing that there was no hope of appeasing the fury of the populace and that the boy was ill at ease, finding himself among strangers and amidst all the commotion of the mob, asked the king if he would give up to the people those who were in any way guilty of offences to himself or his mother.
When the boy nodded his head in assent Sosibius bade some of the bodyguard communicate the royal decision, and making the boy get up led him away to join his household at his own house which was quite near.
When the king's consent was announced, there was a deafening outburst of cheering and applause all through the stadium.
Meanwhile Agathocleas and Agathoclea had separated and each retired to their own residence,
and very soon a certain number of soldiers, some on their own initiative and others forced to go by the crowd, set off in search of both.
Walbank Commentary