 As the gap narrowed, he rode up and down the line singling out the leaders who had stood with Meleager against Perdiccas.He was not informed of Perdiccas' intention.As the two sides closed, Perdiccas's men, perhaps the Epigoni, arrested 300 known leaders of sedition, dragging them away for immediate execution, by one account by being trampled by war elephants goaded on for the purpose.