[2] After these successes, which were shortly followed by the fall of Lysimakhos, he [= Seleukos] entrusted to his son Antiokhos all his empire [
arkhē] in Asia (Minor), and himself proceeded rapidly towards Macedonia, having with him an army both of Greeks [Hellēnes] and of barbarians. But Ptolemy, brother of Lysandra, had taken refuge with him from Lysimakhos; this man [= Ptolemy], who was in any case prone to be-daring [
tolmân] and for this reason was called Thunderbolt [
Keraunos], [accomplished quite a daring act] when the army of Seleukos had advanced as far as Lysimakheia: he [= Ptolemy] killed Seleukos by stealth. Then he turned over to the [other] kings [
basileîs] his possessions [= the possessions of Seleukos],
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while he [= Ptolemy] ruled-as-king [
basileuein] over Macedonia until, being as far as we know the first of the kings [
basileîs] to dare [
tolmân] to face the Gauls [Galatai] in battle, he was killed by thesebarbarians.
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The empire [
arkhē] was restored-to-safety [
sōzesthai] by Antigonos son of Demetrios.