Tristan Hughes
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And you have this mutiny that is not a rejection of him,
They're not saying we don't want you as king anymore.
They don't try and kill him.
There's no plot against him.
It's not that sort of thing at all.
It's not what's happened to plenty of Macedonian kings in the past that somebody is getting rid of you.
It's simply, we can't do it anymore.
There's no end to this.
Let us, you know, at least take a break for a bit.
Let's have a few campaigning seasons off.
Whether they're already thinking of let's go back home, some of them surely yes, but it's so far away.
And it's that element of utter exhaustion, and they will not be moved.
Even when he tries to bribe them, then frighten them, and then bully them, it doesn't work.
So eventually he gives in and retreats, but you have this story of him building these
camps with sort of oversized armor left behind.