Upon the project falling through, the king set out from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Elatea&groupId=558&placeId=1045">Elatea</a> on his return, and meanwhile Megaleas left for <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a>, leaving Leontius to meet his bail of the twenty talents;
but when the Athenian strategi refused to receive him, he returned to Thebes.
The king sailing from the neighbourhood of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cirrha&groupId=469&placeId=876">Cirrha</a> reached the harbour of Sicyon with his guard, and going up to the city declined the invitation of the magistrates, but taking up his quarters in Aratus\' house spent his whole time in his society, ordering Apelles to take ship for <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a>.
On hearing the news about Megaleas, he sent away the peltasts who were under the command of Leontius to Triphylia with Taurion, on the pretence of some urgent service, and as soon as they had left ordered Leontius to be arrested to his bail for Megaleas.
The peltasts, however, heard what had happened, as Leontius had sent them a messenger, and dispatched a deputation to the king, begging him, if he had arrested Leontius on any other charge, not to try the case in their absence,
for if he did so they would all consider it a signal slight and affront — with such freedom did the Macedonians always address their kings — but if it was on account of his bail for Megaleas, they would subscribe among themselves and pay it off.
But this warm support of Leontius by the peltasts served only to exasperate the king, who for this reason put Leontius to death sooner than he had purposed.
Walbank Commentary