Antigonus's Last Act of Precaution

King antigonus had no intention of maintaining the peace or accepting defeat at the hands of a people he considered to be barbarians. He ordered his son, demetrius, to march back into the nabatian lands and accomplish what athenius could not. The watchmen that the nabateans had placed along their borders quickly spotted the advancing greeks and lit warning beacons on the hilltops. They scattered their flocks, hiding them away in narrow crevices and den places, and took all of their precious goods, women and children with them. All fled to a stony fortress, possibly a flat topped mountain named um al biara, the tallest point around