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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philippus (search)
perience was one of the counsellors selected by Antigonus to control and assist his son Demetrius during, his first campaign, B. C. 314. (Diod. 19.69.) He is perhaps the same person who is again mentioned in B. C. 302, as holding the citadel of Sardis for Antigonus, when the rest of the city was betrayed by Phoenix into the hands of Prepelaus, the general of Cassander. (Id. 20.107.) Philippus 14. A Macedonian who commanded the right wing of the army of Eumenes in the battle at Gadamart, B. C. 316. (Diod. 19.40.) He is probably identical with some one of those above enumerated, but with which it is impossible to say. Philippus 15. Son of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, and brother of Cassander, by whom he was sent in B. C. 313, with an army to invade Aetolia. But on his arrival in Acarnania the news that Aeacides, king of Epeirus, had recovered possession of his throne, induced him to turn his arms against that monarch, whom he defeated in a pitched battle. Aeacides with the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philippus (search)
Philippus 14. A Macedonian who commanded the right wing of the army of Eumenes in the battle at Gadamart, B. C. 316. (Diod. 19.40.) He is probably identical with some one of those above enumerated, but with which it is impossible to say.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philon (search)
at the Sophists). This law was opposed by Philon, a friend of Aristotle, and defended by Demochares, the nephew of Demosthenes. (Athen. l.c.) The exertions of Philon were successful, and next year the philosophers returned, Demochares being sentenced to pay a fine of five talents. (Diog. Laert. l.c., where for *Filli/wnos read *Filw/nos. The date of this transaction is doubtful. Alexis (apud Athen. l.c.) merely mentions Demetrius, without enabling us to judge whether it is Phalereus, reus, B. C. 316, or Poliorcetes, B. C. 307. Clinton leans to the former opinion. F.H. vol. ii. p. 169.) But he gives references to the opinions of others, who think it referable to the time of Demetrius Poliorcetes--to whom may be added Ritter. >His of Ancient Philosophy, vol. iii. p 379. Engl. Transl.) Jonsius (De Script. Hist. Phil.) places it as low as about B. C. 300. It is not improbable that this Philon is the slave of Aristotle, whom, in his will, he ordered to receive his freedom, (D. L. 5.15.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philon (search)
ed at the Sophists). This law was opposed by Philon, a friend of Aristotle, and defended by Demochares, the nephew of Demosthenes. (Athen. l.c.) The exertions of Philon were successful, and next year the philosophers returned, Demochares being sentenced to pay a fine of five talents. (Diog. Laert. l.c., where for *Filli/wnos read *Filw/nos. The date of this transaction is doubtful. Alexis (apud Athen. l.c.) merely mentions Demetrius, without enabling us to judge whether it is Phalereus, reus, B. C. 316, or Poliorcetes, B. C. 307. Clinton leans to the former opinion. F.H. vol. ii. p. 169.) But he gives references to the opinions of others, who think it referable to the time of Demetrius Poliorcetes--to whom may be added Ritter. >His of Ancient Philosophy, vol. iii. p 379. Engl. Transl.) Jonsius (De Script. Hist. Phil.) places it as low as about B. C. 300. It is not improbable that this Philon is the slave of Aristotle, whom, in his will, he ordered to receive his freedom, (D. L. 5.15.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'tas (search)
the death of Alexander, B. C. 323 (Arrian apud Phot. p. 69a; D>exippus, ibid. p. 64a; Curt. 10.10.2; Just. 13.4; Diod. 18.3; who, however, in a subsequent passage (ib. 12), appears to speak of him as holding the lesser Phrygia, which was in fact given to Leonnatus. See Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i. p. 68, note). In B. C. 321, he was deprived of his government by Perdieccas and replaced by Philoxenus, but it would seem that this was only in order to employ him elsewhere, as we find him still closely attached to the party of Perdiccas, and after the death of the reent united with Alcetas, Attains, and their partizans, in the contest against Antigonus. He was taken prisoner, together with Attalus, Docimus, and Polemon, in B. C. 320, and shared with them their imprisonment, as well as the daring enterprise by which they for a time recovered their liberty [ATTALUS, No. 2]. He again fell into the power of Antigonus, in B. C. 316. (Diod. 18.45, 19.16; Just. 13.6 ; Droysen, l.c. pp. 115, 268.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pithon (search)
Triparadeisus, B. C. 321. (Diod. 18.3, 39 : Dexippus apud Phot. p. 64b. ; Arrian. ibid. p. 71b; Curt. 10.10.4; Just. 13.4.) It is remarkable that we do not find him taking any part in the war between Eumenes and Antigonus, and it seems probable that he had at that period been dispossessed of his government by Eudemus, who had established his power over great part of the Indian satrapies. But it is clear that he was unfavourably disposed towards Eumenes, and after the fill of that general, B. C. 316, Pithon was rewarded by Antigonus with the important satrapy of Babylon. From thence however he was recalled in B. C. 314, in order to form one of the council of experienced officers who were selected by Antigonus to assist and control his son Demetrius, to whom he had for the first time entrusted the command of an army. Two years later we again find him filling a similar situation and united with the youthful Demetrius in the command of the army in Syria. But he in vain the impetuosity of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pithon (search)
s were his services in raising fresh levies of troops, and collecting supplies of provisions and other necessaries, when the scene of war had been transferred to his own government of Media. It is probable that these circumstances called forth anew an overweening confidence in his own merits and abilities, and thus led Pithon after the fall of Eumenes to engage once more in intrigues for his own aggrandizement, which, if not directly treasonable, were sufficient to arouse the suspicions of Antigonus. The latter affected to disbelieve the rumours which had reached him on the subject, but he sent for Pithon to join him in his winterquarters at Ecbatana, under pretence of wishing to consult him concerning the future conduct of the war. Pithon obeyed the summons without suspicion, but as soon as he arrived he was arrested, brought to trial before a council of the friends of Antigonus, and immediately put to death, B. C. 316. (Diod. 19.19, 20, 26, 29, 30, 38, 40, 43, 46 ; Polyaen. 4.6.14.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Polysperchon (search)
pias, or to save the life of the unhappy king, of whom he was the nominal guardian : and though he afterwards occupied the passes of Perrhaebia with an army, he was unable to prevent the advance of Cassander into Macedonia, or to avert the fall of Pydna, which fell into the hands of the enemy, while Polysperchon was still shut up in Perrhaebia. Here he was reduced to great straits by Cassander's general Callas, and was besieged in the town of Azorus, when the news of the death of Olympias (B. C. 316) caused him to despair of recovering his footing in Macedonia, and he withdrew with a small force into Aetolia. (Diod. 19.11, 35, 36, 52.) From thence he appears to have joined his son Alexander in the Peloponnese, where we find him in B. C. 315, when the altered position of affairs having united Cassander with Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus in a general coalition against Antigonus, the latter sought to attach the aged Polysperchon to his cause, by offering him the chief command in th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Ptolemaeus Soter (search)
ormer to a height of power which rendered him scarcely less formidable to his allies than his enemies. and his treatment of Pithon and Peucestes sufficiently betrayed his ambitious designs. Seleucus, who had himself with difficulty escaped from his hands, fled for refuge to Egypt, and by his representations of the character and projects of Antigonus awakened Ptolemy to a sense of the danger, and induced him to enter into an alliance with Cassander and Lysimachus against their common enemy, B. C. 316. (Id. 19.56; Paus. 1.6.4.) The next spring (315), after ineffectual attempts at negotiation, Antigonus commenced hostilities by the invasion of Syria, quickly recovered most of the cities in Phoenicia which had fallen under the yoke of Ptolemy, and laid siege to Tyre, the most important of all, and the strength of which for a long time defied all his efforts. While he was engaged in this siege, and in the equipment of a fleet, and his nephew Ptolemy was carrying on the war in Asia Minor
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Oxa'na (search)
C. 320, site was removed over to Macedonia by Antipater. In B. C. 318, fearing probably the hostility of Eurydice, she fled with her son to Aeacides. ki,g of Epeirus, by whom they were restored to Macedonia, together with Olympias, in the following year. It was not long, however, before Olympias, hard pressed by Cassander, was obliged to throw herself into Pydna, whither Roxana and the youny prince accompanied her; and, when Pvdna was taken, and Olympias put to death by Cassander, early in B. C. 316, they were placed by him in Amphipolis, with a command that they should no longer be treated as royal persons. Here they were detained under the charge of Glaucias till B. C. 311, in which year, soon after the general peace then concluded, they were murdered by their keeper, and their bodies were secretly disposed of, in accordance with orders from Cassander. (Plut. Alex. 77, de Alex. Fort. 2.6; Arr. Anab. 7.27; Curt. 10.3, 6; Diod. 18.3, 39, 19.11, 52, 105; Strab. xi. p.517, xvii. p. 794;
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