Macedonians

"Not to us, at any rate, father," he replied, "nor to the Macedonians of today, but to those of an earlier time, when, herding and farming, they were in slavery to the Illyrians and the Triballi.

Perhaps, then, you two do some such thing, each of you having boys as fellow contestants—you Macedonians and the other Greeks, he Persians and the others throughout Asia;

and that he himself had need of much gold and silver to accomplish any of his designs, and besides, if he was to keep the Macedonians and the other Greeks obedient, must often court the rulers and the rest of the crowd with words and with gifts,

Thus Agesilaus in his return from Asia when he had asked a passage of the King of the Macedonians, who answered that he would consider of it, said, you may consider, if you please, but we shall pass in the mean time.

Polybius has given as treaty of this kind, made between the Carthaginians and Macedonians.

Arco makes use of this distinction, in his speech to the Achaeans, as reported by Livy, where he says he does not require an offensive and defensive alliance, but only such a treaty as may secure their rights from infringement by each other, or prevent them from harbouring the fugitive slaves of the Macedonians.

Now the auxiliaries of the Potidaeans from Olynthus, (the town is about sixty stades off, and within sight,) when the battle was beginning, and the signals had been hoisted, advanced a short distance to give succour, and the Macedonian horse drew up against them to prevent it;

and having gone to Beroea, and thence turned again [to the coast], (after first attempting the place without taking it,) they continued their march by land to Potidaea, with three thousand heavy-armed of their own, and many of the allies besides, and six hundred horse of the Macedonians with Philip and Pausanias.

Perdiccas also, without the knowledge of the Athenians, sent one thousand Macedonians, who arrived too late.

For while the Macedonians still held Asia, the king, being ambitious to adorn with all writings the library founded by him in Alexandria, requested the men of Jerusalem to interpret their prophecies into the Greek dialect.

And they, as being still subject to the Macedonians, chose out from the most approved among them seventy elders, experienced in the Scriptures and skilled in the Greek dialect, and sent them to him, together with the divine books.

" And a second kind of kingship, after the pure rational and divine administration, is that which uses for kingship the spirited part of the soul alone — the kind by which Heracles reigned over Argos and Alexander over the Macedonians.

When he had said this and the Persians had given their consent, he sent the women out and away to their apartments.

With that, Alexander seated each of his Macedonians next to a Persian, as though they were women, and when the Persians began to lay hands on them, they were killed by the Macedonians.

Furthermore, the Hellenodicae who manage the contest at Olympia determined that it is so, for when Alexander chose to contend and entered the lists for that purpose, the Greeks who were to run against him wanted to bar him from the race, saying that the contest should be for Greeks and not for foreigners.

And the magi of the Persians have honoured fire, and many of the inhabitants of Asia, and besides them the Macedonians, as Diogenes says in the first book of his Persian Affairs.

In this way too the apostle of the Lord, exhorting the Macedonians, becomes an interpreter of the divine voice:

After this they undertook, further, to free the cities of Macedonia from Amyntas, king of the Macedonians.

and we left them already in possession of a great number of Macedonian cities, including especially Pella, which is the largest of the cities in Macedonia.

Now after continuing the campaign through this summer he dismissed both the Macedonian army and the horsemen of Derdas;

has twice been an ambassador to Macedonia, when he need not have gone once—the man who now bids you spit on the Macedonians).

For shortly after the death of Amyntas, and of Alexander, the eldest of the brothers, while Perdiccas and Philip were still children, when their mother Eurydice had been betrayed by those who professed to be their friends, and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne, an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with h …

Again — when Titus Torquatus, who was consul with Gnaeus Octavius, used that severity toward the son whom he had given in adoption to Decimus Silanus, ordering him, when the envoys of the Macedonians accused him of having taken money as praetor in the province, to plead his cause before himself, and, after hearing both sides, pronounced that he did not seem to have shown himself in his command suc …

Many Carthaginians have served as slaves at Rome, and Macedonians after King Perses was taken;

you must rather reflect that he wants glory, but they security.

From this you can gauge the feelings of the great body of the Macedonians towards Philip;

Now, men of Athens, you have most distinctly seen this done by the Macedonians;

But the most insolent and overbearing exploit of the Macedonians was that performed quite recently, when they dared to sail into the Piraeus, contrary to our mutual agreement.

But was not the conduct of the Macedonians as stupid as it was lawless, when they committed such a gross violation of their oaths as deservedly went near to cost them their right to command at sea?

You must not imagine, men of Athens, that his subjects share his tastes.

Hence it is not difficult to see how the majority of the Macedonians regard Philip.

They are perpetually buffeted and wearied and distressed by these expeditions north and south, never suffered to give their time to their business or their private affairs, never able to dispose of such produce as they can raise, because the war has closed all the markets in their land.

The practices which even now we have to countenance are proof enough:

If reverence for the gods has been removed by Macedonian insolence, what fate must we conclude would have befallen the rules of conduct towards man?

After raising a mercenary force he took command of the citizen army and defeated the first opponents of Greek freedom, the Boeotians, Macedonians and Euboeans, together with their other allies, in battle in Boeotia.

it is only here that you hate Olympias so that you can ruin Euxenippus by alleging that he flatters her and the Macedonians.

The rest of Athens, even the schoolchildren, know the orators who take Macedonian money and the other persons who put up Macedonian visitors, either secretly making them welcome or going into the streets to meet them when they arrive.

Similar to this was the career of Amyntas, king of the Macedonians.

the Macedonians if you reign over them, not like a tyrant, but like a king;

I must needs be conquered in benefits by Socrates, must needs be conquered by Diogenes, who walked naked through the midst of the treasures of the Macedonians, having trampled the king's wealth.

But the Macedonians too — this is what they made plain — openly do it, since, when first the Oedipus of theirs came on the stage, slaughtered as to his eyes, they received him with laughter and derision.

And the Macedonians too were suspected, because, when first they heard the tragedy of Oedipus, mocking the incestuous man's grief, they would say, "Drive on against the mother.