Archelaus

Or was not Archelaus a goatherd, and did he not come into Macedonia driving goats?

I, for my part, know nothing, save that Archelaus was a goatherd.

And Archelaus, king of the Macedonians, knowing much and having associated with many of the wise, invited him with gifts and wages, that he might hear him delivering these discourses.

Him Archelaus succeeds, whose pupil Socrates was.

And just as, if a man attend to Ischomachus, he will make him a husbandman, and Lampis a shipmaster, and Charidemus a general, and Simon a horseman, and Perdix a huckster, and Crobylus a cook, and Archelaus a dancer, and Homer a poet, and Pyrrho a wrangler, and Demosthenes an orator, and Chrysippus a logician, and Aristotle a natural philosopher, and Plato a philosopher;

In fact, I at once proceeded to supply your forces in Samos with oar-spars—this was after the Four Hundred had seized power at Athens —since Archelaus had hereditary connexions with my family and offered me the right of cutting and exporting as many as I wished.

As in the Gorgias Socrates, when it had been asked of him whether he did not think Archelaus the son of Perdiccas, who was then held most fortunate, happy, said:

\" — \"Is Archelaus, then, wretched?

And of the other philosophers, all who, passing beyond the elements, busied themselves with something loftier and more extraordinary, some of them hymned the Infinite, as Anaximander (he was a Milesian) and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and the Athenian Archelaus.

Thus among the Jews the sceptre remained with the Sanhedrim, even after Archelaus was deprived of his kingdom;

Archelaus (Arsālāwus) (3) of Athens, whose doctrine is that the principle of the world is that which has no limit, in which condensation and rarefaction occur:

He founded a great academy in his land «Le Académie», and he has much merit to his credit with his pupils, whose number is not to be counted.

6 Could not Socrates have returned Archelaus an equal gratitude, if he had forbidden him to reign?

But the appellation of Nazarene was to befit Christ from the hiding-places of his infancy, to which he came down at Nazareth, avoiding Archelaus, son of Herod.

but it was at a later period that Archelaus son of Perdiccas, when he came to the throne, built those which are now in the country, and cut straight roads, and made other arrangements, both for its having horses and arms for war, and resources of all other kinds, better than had been provided by all the rest of the kings, eight in number, who had preceded him.