No More Learning

PHILIPPUS.
the characters of its people. He was still at be satisfied with mere security, and henceforth his
Thebes, according to Diodorus, when his brother views were directed, not to defence, but to aggran-
Perdiccas III. was slain in battle against the Illy- disement. The recovery of the important town of
rians, in B. C. 360 ; and, on hearing of that event, Amphipolis, which he could never have meant se-
he made his escape and returned to Macedonia. riously to abandon, was his first step in this direc-
But this statement is contradicted by the evidence tion, and the way in which he accomplished it
of Speusippus (ap. Ath. xi. p. 506, f. ), from whom (B. c. 358) is one of the most striking specimens
we learn that Plato, conveying the recommendation of his consummate craft. Having found pretexts
through Euphraeus of Oreus, had induced Perdiccas for war with the Amphipolitans, his policy was to
to invest Philip with a principality, which he was prevent interference with his proceedings on the
in possession of when his brother's death placed part of Athens and of Olynthus (both of which
him in the supreme government of the kingdom. states had an interest in resisting his attempt),
On this he appears to have entered at first merels and, at any rate, to keep them from uniting against
as regent and guardian to his infant nephew him. Accordingly, in a secret negotiation with
Amyntas (AMYNTAS, No. 3. ) ; but after no long the Athenians, he led them to believe that he was
time, probably in B. C. 359, he was enabled to set willing to restore Amphipolis to them when he
aside the claims of the young prince, and to as had taken it, and would do so on condition of
sume for himself the title of king, - aided doubt their making hiin master of Pydna (CHARIDEMUS,
less by the dangers which thickened round Mace No. 2). When therefore the Olynthians sent au
donia at that crisis, and which obviously demanded embassy to Athelie to propose an alliance for the
a vigorous hand to deal with them. The Illyrians, defence of Amphipolis, their orertures were re-
flushed with their recent victory over Perdiccas, jected (Dem. Olynth ii. p. 19), and while their ardour
threatened the Macedonian territory on the west, for the contest would be thus damped by the prog-
— the Paeonians were ravaging it on the north, - pect of engaging in it single banded, Philip still
while PAUSANIAS and ARGABUS took advantage more effectually secured their forbearance by sur-
of the crisis to put forward their pretensions to the rendering to them the town of Anthemus (Dem.
throne. Philip was fully equal to the emergency. Phil. ii. p. 70). He then pressed the siege of
By his tact and eloquence he sustained the failing Amphipolis, in the course of which an embassy,
spirits of the Macedonians, while at the same time under llierax and Stratocles, was sent by the
he introduced among them a stricter military dis- Amphipolitans to Athens, to ask for aid ; but Phi-
cipline, and organized their army on the plan of lip rendered the application fruitless by a letter to
the phalanx ; and he purchased by bribes and the Athenians, in which he repeated his former
promises the forbearance of the Paeonians, as well assurances that he would place the city in their
as of Cotys, the king of Thrace, and the chief ally hands. Freed thus from the opposition of the
of Pausanias. But the claims of Argaeus to the only two parties whom he had to dread, he gained
crown were favoured by a more formidable power, possession of Amphipolis, either by force, as Dio-
- the Athenians, who, with the view of recovering dorus tells us, or by treachery from within, accord-
Amphipolis as the price of their aid, sent a force ing to the statement of Demosthenes. He then
under Mantias to support him. Under these cir- proceeded at once to Pydna, which seems to have
cumstances, according to Diodorus, Philip withdrew yielded to him without a struggle, and the acqui-
his garrison from Amphipolis, and declared the sition of which, by his own armis, and not through
town independent,-a measure, which, if he really the Athenians, gave him a pretext for declining to
resorted to it, may account for the lukewarmness stand by his secret engagement with them. (Dem.
of the Athenians in the cause of Argaeus. Soon Olynth. p. 11, de Haionn. p. 83, c. Aristocr. p. 659,
after he defeated the pretender, and having made c. Lept. p. 476 ; Diod. xvi. 8. ) The hostile feeling
prisoners of some Athenian citizens in the battle, which such conduct necessarily excited against
he not only released them, but supplied with va- him at Athens, made it of course still more im-
Juable presents the losses which each had sus- portant for him to pursue his policy of dividing
tained ; and this conciliatory step was followed by those whose union might be formidable, and of
an embassy offering to renew the alliance which detaching Olynthus from the Athenians. Accord.
had existed between Macedonia and Athens in ingly, we find him next engaged in the siege of
the time of his father. The politic generosity Potidaea, together with the Olynthians, to whom
thus displayed by Philip, produced a most favour- he delivered up the town on its capture, while at
able impression on the Athenians, and peace was the same time he took care to treat the Athenian
concluded between the parties after midsummer of garrison with the most conciliatory kindness, and
B. C. 359, no express mention, as far as appears, sent them home in safety. According to Plutarch
being made of Amphipolis in the treaty. Being (Alex. 3), Philip had just taken Potidaea when
thus delivered from his most powerful enemy, tidings of three prosperous erents reached him at
Philip turned his arms against the Paeonians, once ; - these were, a victory in a horse-race at the
taking advantage of the death of their king, Agis, Olympic games, the defeat by Parmenion of the
just at this juncture, and reduced them to subjec-Illyrians, who were leagued with the Paeonians
tion. He then attacked the Illyrians with a large and Thracians against the Macedonian power,
army, and having defeated them in a decisive and the birth of Alexander ; and, if we combine
battle, he granted them peace on condition of their Plutarch's statement with the chronology of Dio.
accepting the lake of Lychnus as their eastern dorus (xvi. 22), we must place the capture of
boundary towards Macedonia. [BardyLis. ] Potidaea in B. C. 356. Soon after this success,
Thus in the short period of one year, and at the whenever it may have occurred, he attacked and
age of four-and-eventy, had Philip delivered him took a settlement of the Thasians, called Crenides
self from his dangerous and embarrassing position, from the springs (kpîval) with which it abounded,
and provided for the security of his kingdom. But and, having introduced into the place a number of
energy and talents such as his could not, of course, I new colonists, he named it Philippi after himself.


## p. 275 (#291) ############################################

PHILIPPU'S.
273
PHILIPPUS.
No. 4. )
One great advantage of this acquisition was, that force of 7000 men, but he was defeated and driven
it put him in possession of the gold mines of the out of Thessaly by Philip, who followed up this
district, the mode of working which he so im- success with the capture of Pagasae, the port of
proved as to derive from them, so Diodorus tells Pherae. Soon, however, Philip was himself obliged
us, a revenue of 1000 talents, or 243,7501. to retreat into Macedonia, after two battles with
sum, however, which doubtless falls far short of Onomarchus, who had marched into Thessaly
what they yielded annually on the whole. (Diod. against him with a more numerous army ; but his
xvi. 8; conip. Strab. vii. p. 323 ; Dem. Olynth. i. retreat was only a preliminary to a more vigorous
p. 11, Philipp. i. p. 50. )
effort. He shortly returned with augmented forces,
From this point there is for some time a pause ostentatiously assuming the character of champion
in the active operations of Philip. He employed of the Delphic god and avenger of sacrilege, and
in no doubt, in carefully watching events, the making his soldiers wear crowns of laurel. One
course of which, as for instance the Social war battle, in which the Phocians were defeated and
(B. c. 357–355), was of itself tending towards the Onomarchus himself was slain, gave Philip the as-
accomplishment of his ambitious designs. And so cendancy in Thessaly. He established at Pherae
well had he disguised these, that although exas- what he wished the Greeks to consider a free go-
peration against him had been excited at Athens, vernment, but he took and garrisoned Magnesia,
no suspicion of them, no apprehension of real and then advanced south ward to Thermopylac.
danger appears to have been felt there; and even The pass, however, he found guarded by a strong
Demosthenes, in his speech against war with Per- | Athenian force, and he was compelled, or at least
sia (nepi ouupop. ws), delivered in B. C. 354, as thought it expedient to retire, a step by which in-
also in that for the Megalopolitans (B. C. 353), deed he had nothing to lose and much to gain, since
makes no mention at all of the Macedonian power the Greek states were unconsciously playing into his
or projects (comp. Dem. Philipp. iii. p. 117; Clint. hands by a war in which they were weakening
F. H. vol. ii. sub annis 353, 311. ) In B. c. 354, one another, and he had other plans to prosecute in
the application made to Philip by Callias, the the North. But while he withdrew his army from
Chalcidian, for aid against Plutarchus, tyrant Greece, he took care that the Athenians should
of Eretria, gave him an opportunity, which he suffer annoyance from his fleet. With this Lemnos
did not neglect, of interposing in the affairs of and Imbros were attacked, and some of the inha-
Euboea, and quietly laying the foundation of a bitants were carried off as prisoners, several Athe-
strong Macedonian party in the island. (Callias, nian ships with valuable cargoes were taken near
Geraestus, and the Paralus was captured in the bay
But there was another and a nearer object to of Marathon. These events are mentioned by
which the views of Philip were directed, — viz. Demosthenes, in his first Philippic (p. 49, ad fin. ),
ascendancy in Thrace, and especially the mastery delivered in B. C. 352, but are referred to the period
of the Chersonesus, which had been ceded to the immediately following the fall of Olynthus, B. C.
Athenians by CERSOBLEPTEs, and the possession 347, by those who consider the latter portion of
of which would be of the utmost importance to the the speech in question as a distinct oration of later
Macedonian king in his struggle with Athens, date [DEMOSTHENES). It was to the affairs of
even if we doubt whether he had yet looked be- Thrace that Philip now directed his operations. As
yond to a wider field of conquest in Asia. It was the ally of Amadocus against Cersobleptes (Theo
then perhaps in B. C. 353, that he marched as far pomp. ap. Harpocr. s. v. 'Auádokos), he marched
westward as Maronein, where Cersobleptes opened into the country, established his ascendancy there,
a negotiation with him for a joint invasion of the and brought away one of the sons of the Thracian
Chersonesus,-a design which was stopped only by king as a hostage (see Vol. I. p. 674). Meanwhile,
the refusal of Amadocus to allow Philip a passage bis movements in Thessaly had opened the eyes of
through his territory. No attempt was made to Demosthenes to the real danger of Athens and
force one ; and, if we are right in the conjectural Greece, and his first Philippic (delivered, as we
date assigned to the event, Philip would naturally have remarked, about this time) was his earliest
be unwilling to waste time in such a contest, when attempt to rouse his countrymen to energetic efforts
the circumstances of the Sacred War promised to against their enemy. But the half-century, which
afford hiin an opportunity of gaining a sure and had elapsed since the Peloponnesian war, had
permanent footing in the very heart of Greece. worked a sad change in the Athenians, and energy
(Dem. c. Arist. p. 681. )
was no longer their characteristic. Reports of
The capture of Methone, however, was a neces Philip's illness and death in Thrace amused and
sary preliminary to any movement towards the soothed the people, and furnished them with a wel.
south, lying as it did between him and the Thes- come excuse for inaction ; and, though the intelli-
salian border, and serving as a shelter to his gence of his having attacked Heraeum on the Pro-
enemies, and as a station from which they could pontis excited their alarm and a momentary show
annoy him. He did not take it till after a length of vigour, still nothing effectual was done, and
ened siege, in the course of which he himself lost throughout the greater part of B. c. 351 feebleness
an eye. The inhabitants were permitted to depart and irresolution prevailed. At some period in the
with one garment, but the town was utterly' de course of the two following years Philip would
stroyed and the land apportioned to Macedonian seem to have interposed in the affairs of Epeirus,
colonists. (Diod. xvi. 31, 31; Dem. Olynth. i. p. 12, dethroning Arym bas (if we may depend on the
Philipp. i. p. 41, iii. p. 117 ; Plut. Pur. 8 ; Luc. statement of Justin, which is in some measure ·
de Serib. llist. 38. ) He was now able to take ad-borne out by Demosthenes), and transferring the
vantage of the invitation of the Aleuadae to aid crown to Alexander, the brother of Olympias (Just.
them against Lycophron, the tyrant of Pherae, and vii. 6, viii. 6 ; Dem. Olynth. i. p. 13; comp. Dind.
advanced into Thessaly, B. C. 352. To support xvi. 72 ; Wess, ad loc. ). About the same time
Lycophron, the Phocians sent Phayllus, with a l also he showed at least one symptom of his designs


## p. 276 (#292) ############################################

276
PHILIPPUS.
PHILIPPUS.
against the Persian king, by receiving and shelter- cation of the treaty, in which the Athenians might
ing the rebels, Artabazus and Memnon. In B. c. have insisted on a guarantee for its safety.
Accord-
349 he commenced his attacks on the Chalcidian ingly, when the second embassy, consisting probably
cities. Olynthus, in alarm, applied to Athens for of the same members as the former one, arrived in
aid, and Demosthenes, in his three Olynthiac Macedonia to receive the king's oath to the con
orations, roused the people to efforts against the pact of alliance, they found that he was absent in
common enemy, not very vigorous at first and fruit- Thrace, nor did he return to give them an audience
less in the end. But it was not from Athens only till he had entirely conquered Cersobleptes. Even
that Philip might expect opposition. The Thessa- then he delayed taking the oath, unwilling clearly
lians had for some time been murmuring at his re that the Athenian ambassadors should retum home
tention of Pagasae and Magnesin, and his diversion before he was quite prepared for the invasion of
to his own purposes of the revenues of the country Phocis. Having induced them to accompany him
arising from harbour and market dues. These on his march into Thessaly, he at length swore to
complaints he had hitherto endeavoured to still by the treaty at Pherae, and now expressly excluded
assurances and promises ; but just at this crisis the the Phocians from it. Deserted by Phalaecus, who
recovery of Pherae by Peitholus gave him an op had made conditions for himself and his mercenaries,
portunity of marchir. g again into Thessaly. He ex- the Phocians offered no resistance to Philip. Their
pelled the tyrant, and the discontent among his cities were destroyed, and their place in the Am-
allies was calmed or silenced by the appearance of phictyonic council was made over to the king of
the necessity for his interference, and their expe- Macedonia, who was appointed also, jointly with
rience of its efficacy. Returning to the north, he the Thebans and Thessalians, to the presidency
prosecuted the Olynthinn war. Town after town of the Pythian games. Ruling as he did over a
fell before him, for in all of them there were traitors, barbaric nation, such a recognition of his Hellenic
and his course was marked by wholesale bribery. character was of the greatest value to him, especially
In B. C. 348 he laid siege to Olynthus itself, and, as he looked forward to an invasion of the Persian
having taken it in the following year through the empire in the name of Greece, united under him in
treachery of Lasthenes and Euthycrates, he razed a great national confederacy. That his own am-
it to the ground and sold the inhabitants for slaves. bition should point to this was natural enough ; but
The conquest made him master of the threefold the “ Philip" of Isocrates, which was composed at
peninsula of Pallene, Sithonia, and Acta, and be this period, and which urged the king to the enter-
celebrated his triumph at Dium with a magnificent prise in question, is perhaps one of the most striking
festival and games. [LASTHENES ; ARCHELAUS. ) instances of the blindness of an amiable visionary.
After the fall of Olynthus the Athenians had The delusion of the rhetorician was at any rate not
every reason to expect the utmost hostility from shared by his fellow-citizens. The Athenians, in-
Philip, and they endeavoured, therefore, to bring dignant at having been out-witted and at the dis-
about a coalition of Greek states against him. The appointment of their hopes from the treaty, showed
attempt issued in failure ; but the course of events their resentment by omitting to send their ordinary
in Greece, and in particular the turn which affairs deputation to the Pythian games, at which Philip
in Phocis had taken, and the symptoms which presided, and were disposed to withhold their re-
Athens had given of a conciliatory policy towards cognition of him as a member of the Amphictyonic
Thebes, seemed to Philip to point to such a league league. They were dissuaded, however, by De-
as by no means improbable ; and he took care ac- mosthenes, in his oration on the Peace” (B. C.
cordingly that the Athenians should become aware 346), from an exhibition of anger so perilous at
of his willingness to make peace. This disposition once and impotent.
on his part was more than they had ventured to Philip now began to spread his snares for the
hope for, and, on the motion of Philocrates, ten am- establishment of his influence in the Peloponnesus,
bassadors were appointed to treat with him, Aes- by holding himself out to the Messenians, Mega-
chines and Demosthenes being among the number. lopolitans, and Argires, as their protector against
Philip received the embassy at Pella, and both Sparta. To counteract these attempts, and to
then and in the subsequent negotiations employed awaken the states in question to the true view of
effectually his usual craft. Thus, while he seemis Philip's character and designs, Demosthenes went
to have been explicit in requiring the surrender of into the Peloponnesus at the head of an embassy ;
the Athenian claim to Amphipolis and the recog- but his eloquence and representations met with no
nition of the independence of Cardia, he kept the success, and Philip sent an bassadors to Athens to
envoys in the dark as to his intentions with regard complain of the step which had been taken against
to the Thebans and Phocians,-a point of the him and of the accusations with which he had been
highest interest to Athens, which stiti cast a jealous assailed. These circumstances (B. C. 344) gave oc-
eye upon Thebes and her influence in Boeotia. casion to the second Philippic of Demosthenes, but,
Nor were his purposes with respect to these matters though the jealousy of the Athenians was fully
revealed even when the terms of peace and alliance roused, and the answer which they returned to Philip
with him were settled at Athens, as the Phocians does not appear to have thoroughly satisfied him,
were neither included in the treaty nor expressly still no infringement of the peace took place.
shut out from it. The same course was adopted The same year (344) was marked also by a suc-
with reference to Carsobleptes, king of Thrace, and cessful expedition of Philip into Illyria, and by his
the town of Halus in Thessaly, which, acting on expulsion for the third time of the party of the
behalf of the Pharsalians, Philip had sent Parmenion tyrants from Pherae, a circumstance which fur-
to besiege. As for Thrace,--since the dominions nished him with an excuse and an opportunity for
of Cersobleptes formed a barrier between Mace- reducing the whole of Thessaly to a more thorough
donia and the Athenian possessions in the Cherso-dependence on himself (Diod. xvi. 69 ; Dem. in
nesus,-—it was of the greatest importance to Philip Phil
. Ep. p. 153 ; Pseudo-Dem. de Hul
. p. 84).
to establish his power there before the final ratifi- | It appears to have been in B. C. 343 that he made
a


## p. 277 (#293) ############################################

PHILIPPUS.
277
PHILIPPUS.
an ineffectual attempt to gain an ascendancy in Me- I to Selynıbrin, see Newman, in the Classicul Muscum,
gilra, through the traitors Ptocodorus and Perilaus vol. i. pp. 153, 154. )
(Dein. de Cor. pp. 242, 324, de Fals. Leg. p. 435 ; This gleam, however, of Athenian prosperity
Plut. Phoc. 15); and in the same year he marched was destined to be as short as it was glorious.
into Epeirus, and compelled three refractory towns Philip, baffled in Thrace, carried his arms against
in the Cassopian district,-- Pandosia, Buchela, and Atheas, a Scythian prince, from whom he had re-
Elateia,—to submit themselves to his brother-in-ceived insult and injury. The campaign was a
law Alexander (Pseudo-Dem. de Hal. p. 84). successful one ; but on his return from the Danube
From this quarter he meditated an attack on Am- his march was opposed by the Triballi, and in a
bracia and Acarnania, the success of which would battle which he fought with them he received a
have enabled him to effect an union with the Aeto- severe wound. This expedition he would seem to
lians, whose favour he had secured by a promise of have undertaken partly in the hope of deluding the
taking Naupactus for them from the Achaeans, Greeks into the belief that Grecian politics occupied
and 80 to open a way for himself into the Pelopon- his attention less than heretofore ; and meanwhile
nesus. But the Athenians, roused to activity by Aeschines and his party were blindly or treache-
Demosthenes sent ambassadors to the Pelopon- rously promoting his designs against the liberties
nesians and Acarnanians, and succeeded in forming of their country. For the way in which they did
a strong league against Philip, who was obliged in so, and for the events which ensued down to the
consequence to abandon his design. (Dem. Phil. fatal battle of Chaeronein, in B. c. 338, the reader is
iii. pp. 120, 129 ; Aesch. c. Cles. pp. 65, 67. ) referred to the article DEMOSTHENES.
It was now becoming more and more evident The effect of this last decisive victory was to
that actual war between the parties could not be lay Greece at the feet of Philip ; and, if we may
inuch longer avoided, and the negotiations conse- believe the several statements of Theopompus, Dio-
quept on Philip's offer to modify the terms of the dorus, and Plutarch, he gave vent to his exultation
treaty of 346 served only to show the elements of in a most unseenly manner, and celebrated his
discord which were smouldering. The matters in triumph with drunken orgies, reeling forth from the
dispute related mainly: 1. to the island of Halon- banquet to visit the field of battle, and singing de-
nesus, which the Athenians regarded as their own, risively the commencement of the decrees of De-
and which Philip had seized after expelling from it mosthenes, falling as it does into a comic lambic
a band of pirates ; 2. to the required restitution verse,
by Philip of the property of those Athenians who
Δημοσθένης Δημοσθένους Παιανιεύς τάδ' είπεν.
were residing at Potidaea at the time of its capture
by him in 356; 3. to Amphipolis ; 4. to the (Theopomp. ap. Ath. x. p. 435 ; Diod. xvi. 87 ;
Thracian cities which Philip had taken after the Plut. Dem. 20. ) Yet he extended to the Athe-
peace of 346 had been ratified at Athens ; 5. to nians treatment far more favourable than they
the support given by him to the Cardians in their could have hoped to have received from him. Their
quarrel about their boundaries with the Athenian citizens who had been taken prisoners were sent
Bettlers in the Chersonesus (DIOPEITHES) ; and of home without ransom, due funeral rites were paid
these questions not one was satisfactorily adjusteu, to their dead, whose bones Philip commissioned
as we may see from the speech (tepl 'Alovvňoov) | Antipater to bear to Athens ; their constitution
which was delivered in answer to a letter from was left untouched ; and their territory was even
Philip to the Athenians on the subject of their increased by the restoration of Oropus, which was
complaints. Early in B. c. 342 Philip marched into taken from the Thebans. On Thebes the con-
Thrace against Teres and Cerso bleptes, and esta- queror's vengeance fell more heavily. Besides the
blished colonies in the conquered territory. Hosti- loss of Oropus, he deprived her of her supremacy
lities ensued between the Macedonians and Dio in Boeotia, placed her government in the hands of
peithes, the Athenian commander in the Cherso- a faction devoted to his interests, and garrisoned
nesus, and the remonstrance sent to Athens by the Cadmeia with Macedonian troops. The weak-
Philip called forth the speech of Demosthenes (Teplness to which he thus reduced her made it safe for
Xepsovoov), in which the conduct of Diopeithes him to deal leniently with Athens, a course to
was defended, as also the third Philippic, in conse- which he would be inclined by his predilection for
quence of which the Athenians appear to have en- a city so rich in science and art and literature, no
tered into a successful negotiation with the Persian less than by the wish of increasing his popularity
king for an alliance against Macedonia (Phil. Ep. and his character for moderation throughout Greece.
ad Ath. ap. Dem. p. 160 ; Diod. xvi. 75 ; Paus. i. And now he seemed to have indeed within his
29 ; Art. Anab. ii. 14). The operations in Euboea reach the accomplishment of the great object of his
in B. C. 342 and 341 (Callias ; CLEITARCHUS ; ambition, the invasion and conquest of the Persian
PARMENION ; PHOcion), as well as the attack of empire. In a congress held at Corinth, which was
Callias, sanctioned by Athens, against the towns on attended, according to his invitation, by deputies
the bay of Pagasae, brought matters nearer to a from every Grecian state with the exception of
crisis, and Philip sent to the Athenians a letter, Sparta, war with Persia was determined on, and
yet extant, defending his own conduct and arraign- the king of Macedonia was appointed to command
ing theirs. But the siege of Perinthus and By: the forces of the national confederacy. He then
zantium, in which he was engaged, had increased advanced into the Peloponnesus, where he invaded
the feelings of alarm and anger at Athens, and a and ravaged Laconia, and compelled the Lacedae-
decree was passed, on the motion of Demosthenes, monians to surrender a portion of their territory to
for succouring the endangered cities. Chares, to Argos, Tegea, Megalopolis, and Messenia ; and,
whom the armament was at first entrusted, effected having thus weakened and humbled Sparta and
nothing, or rather worse than nothing; but Phocion, established his power through the whole of Greece,
who superseded him, compelled Philip to raise the he returned home in the latter end of B. c. 338.
siege of both the towns (B. C. 3:29). (With respect In the following year his marriage with Cleo-
ܪ
}


## p. 278 (#294) ############################################

278
PHILIPPUS.
PHILIPPUS.
patra, the daughter of Attalus, one of his generals closed the first day's festivities at Aegae, the tra-
(CLEOPATRA, No. 1), led to the most serious dis- gedian Neoptolemus recited, at Philip's desire, a
turbances in his family. Olympias and Alexander piece of lyrical poetry, which was intended to
withdrew in great indignation from Macedonia, the apply to the approaching downfal of the Persian
young prince taking refuge in Illyria, which seems king, and spoke of the vanity of human prosperity
in consequence to have been involved in war with and of far-reaching hopes cut short by death. (Diod.
Philip, while Olympias Red to Epeirus and incited xvi. 91, 92 ; Ael. V. H. iii. 45 ; Cic. de Fat. 3 ;
her brother Alexander to take vengeance on her Paus. viii. 7. )
husband. But this danger Philip averted by pro- Philip died in the forty-seventh year of his age
mising his daughter Cleopatra in marringe to his and the twenty-fourth of his reign, lenving for his
brother-in-law (CLEOPATRA, No. 2), and Olympias son a great work indeed to do, but also a great help
and her son retumed home, still however masking for its accomplishment in the condition of Greece
resentment under a show of reconciliation. The and of Macedonia ; Greece so far subject as to be
breach between Philip and Alexander appears to incapable of impeding his enterprise, — Macedonia
have been further widened by the suspicion which with an organized army and a military discipline
the latter entertained that his father meant to unknown before, and with a body of nobles bound
exclude him from the succession. This feeling was closely to the throne, chiefly through the plan in-
strengthened in Alexander's mind by the proposed troduced or extended by Philip, of gnthering round
marriage of his half-brother Arrhidaeus with the the king the sons of the greai families, and pro-
daughter of Pixodarus, the Carian satrap, to whom riding for their education at court, while he ein-
accordingly he sent to negotiate for the hand of the ployed them in attendance on his person, like the
lady for himself. Philip discovered the intrigue, pages in the feudal times. (Ael. 1. H. xiv. 49;
and, being highly exasperated, punished those who Arr. Anab. iv. 13 ; Curt. viii. 6, 8; Val. Max. iii.
had been the chief instruments of it with imprison 3, ext. 1. )
ment and exile. Meanwhile, his preparations for Philip had a great number of wires and concu-
his Asiatic expedition were not neglected, and early bines. Besides Olympias and Cleopatra, we may
in B. c. 336 he sent forces into Àsia, under Par- mention, 1. his first wife Audata, an Illyrian prin-
menion, Amyntas, and Attalus, to draw over the cess, and the inother of Cynane ; 2. Phila, sister of
Greek cities to his cause. But the great enterprise Derdas and Machatas, a princess of Elymiotis ;
was reserved for a higher genius and a more vigor. 3. Nicesipolis of Pherae, the mother of Thessalo-
ous hand. In the summer of the last-mentioned nica ; 4. Philinna of Larissa, the mother of Arrhi-
year Philip held a grand festival at Aegae, to so- daeus ; 5. Meda, daughter of Cithelas, king of
lemnise the nuptials of his daughter with Alex. Thrace ; 6. Arsinoë, the mother of Ptolemy I. ,
ander of Epeirus. It was attended by deputies king of Egypt, with whom she was pregnant when
from the chief states of Greece, bringing golden she married Lagus. To these numerous connections
crowns as presents to the Macedonian king, while temperament as well as policy seems to have in-
from the Athenians there came also a decree, declined him. He was strongly addicted, indeed, to
claring that any conspirator against Philip who sensual enjoyment of every kind, with which (not
anight flee for refuge to Athens, should be delivered unlike Louis XI. of France, in some of the lighter
up. The solemnities of the second day of the fes parts of his character) he combined a turn for
tival commenced with a splendid procession, in humour, not always over nice, and a sort of easy,
which an image of Philip was presumptuously genial good-nature, which, as it costs nothing and
borne along amongst those of the twelve Olympian calls for no sacrifice, is often found in connection
gods. He himself advanced in a white robe be with the propensity to self-indulgence. Yet his
tween his son and the bridegroom, having given passions, however strong, were always kept in sub-
orders to his guards to keep at a distance from him, jection to his interests and ambitious views, and,
as he had sufficient protection in the good will of in the words of bishop Thirlwall, “it was some-
the whole of Greece. As he drew near to the thing great, that one who enjored the pleasures of
theatre, a youth of noble blood, named Pausanias, animal existence so keenly, should have encountered
rushed forward and plunged into his side with fatal so much toil and danger for glory and empire"
etfect a Celtic sword, which he had hidden under (Greece, vol. vi.