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fatigue while accompanying the king in pursuit of This disaster caused the praetor to turn the siege
the enemy, during the campaigns in India. (Justin. into a blockade; and the arrival of ten Macedonian
xv. 3.) ships, which made their way into the town with a
13. A Macedonian officer, who had served under strong reinforcement of troops, soon after compelled
Alexander throughout his campaigns (probably him to abandon the enterprize altogether. (Liv.
therefore identical with some one of the preceding), xliv. 11, 12.)
and who in consequence as a man of age and expe- 22. A Macedonian, sent as ambassador by Perrience was one of the counsellors selected by Anti- seus to the Rhodians, shortly before the commencegonus to control and assist his son Demetrius dur- ment of the second Macedonian war, to try to
ing his first campaign, a.c. 314. (Diod. xix. 69.) induce them to remain neutral during the impendHe is perhaps the same person who is again men- ing contest. (Polyb. xxvii. 4.)
tioned in B.C. 302, as holding the citadel of Sardis 23. An Achaean, who, as belonging to the party
for Antigonus, when the rest of the city was be- favourable to the Romans, was one of those selected
trayed by Phoenix into the hands of Prepelaus, for the embassy of congratulation after the defeat
the general of Cassander. (Id. xx. 107.) of Perseus, B. C. 168. (Polyb. xxx. 10.)
14. A Macedonian who commanded the right 24. Son of Alexander of Megalopolis. His
wing of the army of Eumenes in the battle at Ga- father's pretended descent from Alexander the
damarta, B. C. 316. (Diod. xix. 40.) He is pro- Great appears to have filled him with the most
bably identical with some one of those above enu- puerile schemes of ambition. On the marriage of
ulerated, but with which it is impossible to say. his sister Apama with Amynander, king of Atha5. Son of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, mania, Philip accompanied her, and contrived to
and brother of Cassander, by whom he was sent in obtain great influence over the mind of Amynander,
B.C. 313, with an army to invade Aetolia. But who gave him the government of Zacynthus, and
on his arrival in Acarnania the news that Aeacides, allowed him to direct in great measure the admiking of Epeirus, had recovered possession of his nistration of affairs. When Antiochus came into
throne, induced him to turn his arms against that Greece (B. c. 1.92) he gained over Philip to his
monarch, whom he defeated in a pitched battle. interests by pretending to regard him as the rightAeacides with the remnant of his forces having ful heir to the Macedonian throne, and even holding
afterwards joined the Aetolians, a second action out to him hopes of establishing him upon it; by
ensued, in which Philip was again victorious, and which means he obtained the adherence of AmynanAeacides himself fell in the battle. The Aetolians der also. Philip was afterwards chosen byAntiochus
hereupon abandoned the open country, and took for the duty of burying the bones of the Macedorefuge in their mountain fastnesses. (Diod. xix. 74.) nians and Greeks slain at Cynoscephalae, a measure
According to Justin (xii. 14) Philip had partici- by which he vainly hoped to conciliate popularity.
pated with his two brothers, Cassander and Iollas, He was next appointed to command the garrison
in the conspiracy for the murder of Alexander. at Pellinaeum, but was soon compelled to surrender
16. Father of Antigonus, king of Asia. (Arr. to the Romans, by whom he was sent a prisoner
Ainalb. i. 29. ~ 5; Justin. xiii. 4. See No. 2.) to Rome. When first taken captive he accidentally
17. Son of Antigonus, king of Asia, was sent met Philip, the king of Macedonia, who in derision
by his father in B.c. 310, at the head of an army, greeted him with the royal title. (Liv. xxxv. 47,
to oppose the revolt of his general Phoenix, and to xxxvi. 8, 13, 14, 31; Appian. Syr. 13, 17.)
recover possession of the towns on the Hellespont 25. A brother of Perseus, king of Macedonia,
held by the latter. (Diod. xx. 19.) He died in apparently a son of Philip by a subsequent marB C. 306, just as Antigonsus was setting out for his riage, as he was so much younger than his brother,
expedition against Egypt. (Id. xx. 73, where he that the latter adopted him as his son, and appears
is called Phoenix, though it appears certain that to have continued to regard him as the heir to his
Antigonus had only two sons, Demetrius and Philip. throne even after the birth of his own son AlexanSee Droysen, Iellenismz. vol. i. p. 465, note.) der. Thus we find him holding the post of honour
18. A son of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, who next to the king on occasions of state; and after
was put to death together with his elder brother the fatal battle of Pydna he was the constant comLysimachus, by the usurper Ptolemy Ceraunus, panion of Perseus during his flight and the period
B. c. 281. (Justin. xxiv. 3.) [LYsIMaaCHUS, Vol. II. of his refuge at Samothrace, and surrendered togep. 867, a.] ther with him to the Roman praetor Cn. Octavius.
19. An officer who held the citadel of Sicyon for He was led in triumph before the car of Aemilius
Ptolemy, king of Egypt, but surrendered it by Paulus, B. c. 167, and afterwards consigned to
capitulation to Demetrius Poliorcetes, B. c. 303. captivity at Alba, where he survived his adopted
(l)iod. xx. 1.02.) father but a short time. (Liv. xlii. 52, xliv. 45,
20. An Epeirot, who took a leading part inll xlv. 6; Plut. Aemnil. 33, 37; Zonar. ix. 24.) Acnegotiating the treaty of peace concluded between cording to Polybius (Fis. Vat. xxxvii. p. 447) he
Philip V., king of Macedonia, and the Roman was only eighteen years old at the time of his
general P. Sempronius Tuditanus at Phoenice, in death.
Epeirus, B.c. 205. (Liv. xxix. 12.) 26. A friend and officer of Antiochus the Great,
21l. A Macedonian officer, who commanded the who held the office of commander of the elephants
garrison of Cassandreia when that place was be- (nsagister elephantorumn, a title of high rank at the
sieged by the Roman praetor C. Marcius Figulus, court of Syria) under that monarch; in which post
together with Eumenes, king of Pergamus, in the we find him mentioned both at the battle of Rasecond Macedonian war, B. c. 169. The Romans phia, between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philopator,
succeeded by mining in opening an entrance through a. c. 217 (Polyb. v. 82), and again at the battle
the walls; but before they could take advantage of Magnesia against the Romans, a. c. 190. (Liv.
of it, Philip by a sudden sally threw their troops xxxvii. 41; Appian. SYr. 33.) As he is said by
into confusion, and msade a great slauglhter of them. PolSbius to have been broug-lt up with Antiochas.