And when one of the better class of citizens declared that Stratocles was mad to introduce such a motion, Demochares of Leuconoë said: He would indeed be mad not to be mad. For Stratocles reaped much advantage from his flatteries. Demochares, however, was brought under accusation for this and sent into exile. So fared it with the Athenians, who imagined that because they were rid of their garrison they therefore had their freedom. And now Demetrius proceeded into Peloponnesus, Early in 303 B.C. where not one of his enemies opposed him, but all abandoned their cities and fled. He received into allegiance Acte, as it is called, and Arcadia (except Mantineia), and freed Argos, Sicyon, and Corinth by paying their garrisons a hundred talents.