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270 PHILIPPUS. PHILIPPUS.
of the New Comedy did not abstain from mytho- I not subsequently appear in the campaigns of Alexlogical subjects. To the above list should perhaps ander, at least so that it can be distinctly identified;
be added the TpfosoL /'Pw7ro7rr6sis. The KodopvoL but so many officers in the army bore the name of
of Philonides, and the Ndvvmov of Eubulus or Phi- Philip that it is frequently impossible to say who
lippus, are erroneously ascribed to Philippides. The is the particular person spoken of. Droysen conlatter is only one of several instances in which the jectures (Hellenism. vol. i. p. 418. not.) that it is
names of Philippides and Philippus are confounded this Philip who was the father of Magas (Paus. i.
(see Mfeineke, Hist. Crit. pp. 341, 342, 343). 7. ~ 1), but there is certainly no proof of this, and
Some of the ancient critics charge Philippides with the expression of Pausanias, that the latter was a
infringing upon the purity of the Attic dialect man of ordinary condition and ignoble birth, is
(Phryn. Ed. p. 365; Pollux, ix. 30), and Meineke unfavourable to this supposition.
produces several words from his fragments as ex- 6. Son of Machatas, an officer in the service
amples. (Fabric. Bibl. (Graec. vol. ii. pp. 479, 480; of Alexander the Great, who was appointed by him
Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 470-475, in B. c. 327 satrap of India, including the provinces
vol. iv. pp. 467-478, 833, 834; Bernhardy, Geschi. westward of the Hydaspes. (Arr. Anab. v. 8.
d. Griech. Lit. vol. ii. p. 1017.) [P. S.] ~ 5.) After the conquest of the Malli and OxyPHILIPPUS (D1Alzr7ros), minor historical per- dracae, these tribes also were added to his governsonages. i. A citizen of Crotona, son of Butacides. ment. (Id. vi. 14. ~ 7.) But after the departure
Having married the daughter of Telys, king of the of Alexander from India, Philip was assassinated
rival state of Sybaris, and being obliged in conse- by a conspiracy formed among the mercenary troops
quence to leave his country, he sailed away to under his command, B.c. 326. (Id. vi. 27. ~ 3;
Cyrene; and, when Dorieus, the Spartan prince, Curt. x. i. ~ 20.)
son of Anaxandrides, set forth from the Libyan Droysen considers this Philip to have been
coast, on his Sicilian expedition, Philippus accom- the father of Antigonus, the king of Asia. (ITelpanied him with a galley, equipped and manned at lenismn. vol. i. p. 43. not.) It is certain at least
his own expence, and was slain in Sicily in a that they were both of the race of the princes of
battle with the Carthaginians and Egestaeans. He Elymiotis.
was the finest man of his time, and a conqueror at 7. Son of Menelaus, a Macedonian officer who
Olympia; by virtue of which qualifications the held the command of the Thessalian cavalry, and
Egestaeans worshipped him after his death as a that of the other Greek auxiliaries in the service of
hero. (Herod. v. 47; comp. above, Vol. I. p. Alexander. We find him mentioned as holding
1066, b.) this post, and rendering important services both at
2. Son of Alexander I. of Macedonia, and the battles of the Granicus andArbela; and although
brother of Perdiccas II., against whom he rebelled the greater part of the Thessalian horse were sufin conjunction with Derdas. The rebels were aided fered to return to Greece, he continued to accomby the Athenians, in consequence of which Per- pany Alexander with the remainder, and is again
diccas instigated Potidaea, as well as the Chalci- mentioned during the advance into Bactria. (Arr.
dians and Bottiaeans, to revolt from Athens. Anab. i. 15. ~ 4, iii. 11. ~ 15, 25. ~ 6; Curt. iv.
When the Athenian generals arrived, Philip acted 13. ~ 29, vi. 6. ~ 35.)
with them in the campaign of B. c. 432. He seems 8. Son of Balacrus, an officer in the service of
to have died before B. c. 429, in which year we find his Alexander who commanded one taxis or division
son Amyntas contesting the throne with Perdiccas, of the phalanx at the battle of Arbela. (Diod.
and aided in his attempt by Sitalces, king of the xvii. 57.) This is the only time his patronysmic
Odrysian Thracians. (Thuc. i. 57, &c. ii. 95, 1 00.) is mentioned; but there can be little doubt that he
[See above, Vol. I. p. 154, b.; and comp. Clint. is the same person who held a similar command at
F. H. vol. ii. p. 225, where a different account is the passage of the Granicus, three years before.
given of Amyntas.] (Arr. Anab. i. 14. ~ 5.) It is also not improbable
3. A Lacedaemonian, was sent by the Pelopon- that he is the same with the following.
nesians to Aspendus, in B. c. 411, with two gallies, 9. Satrap of Sogdiana, to which government lihe
to take charge of the Phoenician fleet, which Tis- was first appointed by Alexander himself in B. c.
saphernes had promised them. But Philippus 327. He retained his post, as did most of the
sent notice from Aspendus to Mindarus, the Spartan satraps of the more remote provinces, in the arrangeadmiral, that no confidence was to be placed in Tis- ments which followed the death of the king (B. C.
saphernes; and the Peloponnesian fleet accordingly 323); but in the subsequent partition at Triparaquitted Miletus and sailed to the Hellespont, deisus, B. C. 321, he was assigned the government of
whither Pharnabazus had invited them. (Thuc. Parthia instead. (Dexipp. ap. Phot. p. 64, b.;
viii. 87, 99.) Arrian. ib. p. 71. b.; Diod. xviii. 3, 39.) Here
4. A Theban, was one of the members of the he remained until 318, when Python, who was
oligarchical government established at Thebes after then seeking to establish his power over all the
the seizure of the Cadmeia by Phoebidas in B. c. provinces of the East, made himself master of
382. In B.C. 379, on the night when Pelopidas Parthia, and put Philip to death. (Diod. xix. 14.)
and his fellow-exiles carried their enterprise for the 10. A Macedonian officer, who was left by Alexoverthrow of the tyrants into effect, Philippus and ander the Great in command of the garrison at
Archias were slain by the conspirators at a banquet Peucelaotis, near the Indus. (Arr. Aenab. iv. 28.
at the house of Phyllidas. (Xen. HIell. v. 4. ~~ 2, ~ 10.)
&c.; comp. Plut. Pel. 9, &c. de Gen. Soc. 24, 26, ] 1. One of the friends of Alexander the Great,
29, 32.) [E. E.] who was sent by him to consult the oracle of
5. Son of Amyntas, a Macedonian officer in the Ammon concerning the payment of divine honours
sexvice of Alexander the Great, who commanded one to Hephaestion. (Diod. xvii. 115.)
of the divisions of the phalanx at the battle of the 12. A brother of Lysinmachus (afterwards king of
(raniclls. (Arr. Anab. i. 14. ~ 3.) 1-is name does Thrace) in the service of Alexander, who died of