[3] A gate with a trophy on top was built next to the Stoa Poikile at the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora, presumably at the site of a pivotal battle following Pleistarchus's breach of the Dipylon.
[5] In 302 BC, when the general coalition was formed against Antigonus, Pleistarchus was sent forward by his brother, with an army of 12,000 infantry and 500 cavalry, to join Lysimachus in Asia.
As the Hellespont and the entrance of the Euxine was occupied by Demetrius, he endeavored to transport his troops from Odessus directly to Heraclea, but lost by far the greater part on the passage, some having been captured by the enemy's ships, while others perished in a storm, in which Pleistarchus himself narrowly escaped shipwreck.
[6] Notwithstanding this misfortune, he seems to have rendered efficient service to the confederates, for which he was rewarded after the battle of Ipsus (301 BC) by obtaining the province of Cilicia, as an independent government.
However, Billows and Gregory do not discount the possibility that Eupolemus Simalou simply killed and deposed Pleistarchus to establish himself as the ruler of (a considerably shrunken) Caria.