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Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon
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King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC

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  1. While Philip went on his expedition against the Byzantines, he left Alexander, then sixteen years old, his lieutenant in Macedonia, committing the charge of his seal to him; who, not to sit idle, reduced the rebellious Maedi, and having taken their chief town by storm, drove out the barbarous inhabitants, and planting a colony of several nations in their room, called the place after his own name, Alexandropolis. At…

    Plutarch, Plutarch

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  2. Phenĕüs, a town in Arcadia, 193. Pherecȳdēs, a learned man of Syros (fl. 544), 294. Pherenīcus, 8, 10. Philēbus, a late Dialogue of Plato, on _Pleasure_, 71. Philīnus, a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 6; 4, 1; 5, 10; 8, 7. Philip of Macedon (d. 336), 233. Philip, son of Cassander, king of Macedon (d. 296), 198. Philip V, 237-179, king of Macedon, 91, 92. Philippus, historian (of Prusa?), a…

    Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

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  3. In the eighth year of _Antiochus_, the year in which he profaned the Temple and set up the heathen Gods in all _Judea_, and the _Romans_ conquered the kingdom of _Macedon_; the prophetic Angel leaves off describing the affairs of the kings of the _South_ and _North_, and begins to describe those of the _Greeks_ under the dominion of the _Romans_, in these words: [11] _And after him Arms_ [the _Romans_] _shall stand…

    Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John

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