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Often appears with: the rise and fall of greatness · strymon · pseudo-philip · macedonia · history and the writing of history · conspiracy and assassination
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“Thinking, therefore, that the war was at an end, and that there was no more occasion for our services, we sailed back to the Peloponnese.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2) · observation
Polybius describes how Greeks initially doubted the claim of a Pseudo-Philip in Macedonia, until battles near and beyond the Strymon supposedly confirmed he ruled all Macedonia.
[Sidenote: The pretended Philip, son of Perseus, B.C. 149.] +2.+ Such were the criticisms commonly made on the dealings of the Romans with the Carthaginians. But as to the Pseudo-Philip, the report at first appeared quite beneath consideration. A Philip suddenly appears in Macedonia, as though he had dropped from the skies, in contempt of Macedonians and Romans alike, without having the least reasonable pretext for …