Macedon
place · 8 works · 9 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Macedonia · Macedonian · Philip's own country · his coast · his country
in the texts
On the False Embassy
Philip's kingdom and the place from which misleading peace reports came.
Aeschines, then, was the first man in Athens, as he claimed at the time in a speech, to perceive that Philip had designs against Greece, and was corrupting some of the magnates of Arcadia.
So on the strength of his policy at that time, and of the sample he had exhibited of his conduct, he was actually appointed as one of the ambassadors when you were induced by Aristodemus, Neoptolemus, Ctesiphon and others, who had brought entirely misleading reports from Macedonia, to send an embassy to negotiate peace with Philip.
a third had a brother-in-law in Macedonia.
On the Embassy
Philip's kingdom, invoked as not itself determining moral character.
It is not Macedon that makes men good or bad, but their own inborn nature;
First Olynthiac
Philip's kingdom and the territory where Demosthenes wants the war carried.
We have raised him to a greater height than ever king of Macedonia reached before.
It is the duty of all of you to grasp the significance of these facts, and to send out an expedition that shall thrust back the war into Macedonia:
First Philippic
Philip's kingdom and the geographic base from which raids and military pressure emerge.
Could there be any news more startling than that a Macedonian is triumphing over Athenians and settling the destiny of Hellas?
and during that season of the year when it is easy to stand close in to shore and the winds are steady, your force will easily lie off his coast and at the mouth of his seaports.
for its purpose is that he may either hold his hand through fear, knowing that you are on the alert—he will know it sure enough, for there are some on our side, yes, too many, who report everything to him—or that he may overlook it and so be taken off his guard, provided there is nothing to hinder you from sailing against his country, if he gives you the chance.
On the Chersonese
Philip's kingdom and a source of reinforcements for his campaign.
He is now established in Thrace with a large force, and is sending for considerable reinforcements from Macedonia and Thessaly, according to the statements of those on the spot.
Second Philippic
Philip's kingdom, whose security is linked to his control of disputed Greek cities.
For it is by holding the cities which are really yours that he retains safe possession of all the rest, and he feels that if he gave up Amphipolis and Potidaea, his own country would not be safe for him.
Can you not imagine, I said, addressing the Messenians, how annoyed the Olynthians would have been to hear a word said against Philip in the days when he was handing over to them Anthemus, to which all the former kings of Macedonia laid claim, when he was making them a present of Potidaea, expelling the Athenian settlers, and when he had taken upon himself the responsibility of a quarrel with us a …
The Rights of War and Peace
Kingdom ruled by Perseus, the target of Rome's declaration of war.
chapter of his history, thought themselves justified in declaring war against Perseus, King of Macedon, unless he gave satisfactory proof, that he had no hostile intentions against them, in the naval and military armaments, which he was preparing.
In Defence of Euxenippus
The kingdom of Macedon, named as the place Euxenippus is challenged to be shown to have visited or maintained contacts with, which the speaker denies.
If you show us that he has ever been to Macedon or entertained any of the people in his own home, that he knows a Macedonian intimately or meets any of them;