Heracleides

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Often appears with: senate decree · mobilization and recruitment · laodice · forms of government · counsel and advisers to rulers · alexander balas

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The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) primary

Polybius · 2nd century BCE (composition of the Histories); this volume contains Books X–XXXIX
Chapter 59 in Book VI.: > BOOK XXXIII (7/7)

Heracleides brings Laodice and Alexander Balas to Rome; Alexander appeals for help to recover Antiochus’s kingdom, and the Senate authorizes their return, enabling Heracleides to recruit mercenaries.

[Sidenote: The Senate’s decree in favour of Alexander and Laodice.] Then Heracleides entered the Senate, bringing Laodice and Alexander with him. The youthful Alexander first addressed the Senate, and begged the Romans “to remember their friendship and alliance with his father Antiochus, and if possible to assist him to recover his kingdom; or if they could not do that, at least to give him leave to return home, and…