 Initially Meleager was spared and was appointed Perdiccas's deputy ("hyparchos"), but after the crisis had passed and the situation was again under control, Meleager, who saw them coming for him, took refuge in a temple, where he was murdered.The army meanwhile mingled and the schism was healed.Perdiccas, as "epimelētēs" (guardian or regent) and with the authority conferred by Alexander's seal ring, summoned a new council, in the language of ancient legislators, "to which it was pleasing to divide the empire".