was about to be convened on the affairs of Phocis. When, however, the ambassadors had reached Chalcis in Euboea, they heard of the destruction of the Phocian towns by Philip, and of his having taken part entirely with the Thebans, and Dercylus returned to Athens with the alarming news; but the embassy was still desired to proceed. (Aesch. de Fals. Leg. pp. 40, 46, c. Ctes. p. 65; Dem. de Cor. p. 237, De Fals. Leg. pp. 360, 379.)
It is perhaps the same Dercylus whom Plutarch mentions as "general of the country" (tou= e)pi\ th=s xw/ras strathgou=, in B. C. 318 ). When Nicanor, having been called on to withdraw the Macedonian garrison from Munychia, consented to attend a meeting of the council in the Peiraeeus, Dercylus formed a design to seize him, but he became aware of it in time to escape. Dercylus is also said to have warned Phocion in vain of Nicanor's intention of making himself master of the Peiraeeus. (Plut. Phoc. 32; Nep. Phoc. 2; Droysen, Gescch. der Nachf Alex. p. 223.) [E.E]
Flaccina'tor, M. Fo'slius
2. Master of the equites to the dictator C. Maenius, for the first time in B. C. 320, according to the Fasti, but according to Livy in B. C. 312 (9.26). Both the dictator and Flaccinator resigned on being accused of illegal association against the republic; and both were tried before the consuls and honorably acquitted. Flaccinator was consul in B. C. 318 (Liv. 9.20), and master of the equites, according to the Fasti, a second time to C. Maenius B. C. 314, but according to Livy (9.28) to the dictator C. Poetelius.
The cause and circumstances of his trial will be better understood by referring to MAENIUS. [W.B.D]
revolted in the following year. Maenius named M. Foslius Flaccinator as the magister equitum, and both magistrates conducted the inquiry with great vigour, and brought to light the intrigues of many of the Roman nobles of high family.
The latter in their turn retorted, by bringing charges against the dictator and the magister equitum; whereupon both Maenius and Foslius resigned their offices, demanded of the consuls a trial, and were most honourably acquitted. (Liv. 9.26, comp. 34.)
In B. C. 318 Maenius was censor with L. Papirius Crassus.
In his censorship he allowed balconies to be added to the various buildings surrounding the forum, in order that the spectators might obtain more room for beholding the games which were exhibited in the forum; and these balconies were called after him Maeniana (sc. aedificia). They are frequently mentioned by the ancient writers, and are described at length by Salmasius (ad Spartian. Pescenn. 12, p. 676). Comp. Paul. Diac. p. 134, ed. Müller; C
Nicocles
4. An Athenian, who was put to death together with Phocion (B. C. 318), to whom he had always been attached by the warmest personal friendship: on which account he begged as a last favour to be allowed to drink the poison before his illustrious friend, a request which Phocion unwillingly conceded. (Plut. Ploc. 35, 36.)
Philon
2. A very eminent architect at Athens in the time of the immediate successors of Alexander.
He built for Demetrius Phalereus, about B. C. 318, the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great temple at Eleusis.
He also constructed for the Athenians, under the administration of Lycurgus, an armoury (armamentarium) in the Peiraeeus, containing arms for 1000 ships (Plin. Nat. 7.37. s. 38).
This work, which excited the greatest admiration (Cic. de Orat. 1.14; Strab. ix. p.395d.; V. Max. 8.12. ext. 2), was destroyed in the taking of Athens by Sulla. (Plut. Sull. 14).
He wrote works on the architecture of temples, and on the naval basin which he constructed in the Peiraeeus. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 12.
d a public hearing in the presence of the king, which ended in Phocion and his companions being given up to the opposite party by the express order of Polysperchon, and sent to Athens to undergo the form of a trial. (Diod. 18.49, 54-58, 62, 64-66 ; Plut. Phoc. 31-34. For a more detailed account of these transactions see PHOCION.）
By the destruction of Phocion and his friends, the regent hoped to have secured the adherence of the Athenians; but while he was still in Phocis with the king (B. C. 318), Cassander himself unexpectedly arrived in Attica with a considerable fleet and army, and established himself in the Peiraeeus. Hereupon Polysperchon advanced into Attica and laid siege to the Peiraeeus, but finding that he made little progress, he left his son Alexander to continue the blockade, while he himself advanced into the Peloponnese with a large army. Here he at first met with little opposition : almost all the cities obeyed his mandates and expelled or put to death the leaders
Pyrrhus
（*Pu/rros), king of Epeirus, born about the year B. C. 318, was the son of Aeacides and Phthia, the daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, a distinguished leader in the struggle between Macedonia and Greece after the death of Alexander, usually called the Lamian war.
The ancestors of Pyrrhus claimed descent from Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, who was said to have settled in Epeirus after the Trojan war, and to have become the founder of the race of Molossian kings. His father had succeeded to the throne on the death of his cousin Alexander, who was slain in Italy in B. C. 326. Alexander was the brother of Olympias, the wife of Philip and the mother of Alexander the Great; and it was this connection with the royal family of Macedonia, which brought misfortune upon the early years of Pyrrhus. His father Aeacides had taken part with his relative Olympias, and had marched into Macedonia to support her against Cassander; but when the latter proved victorious, and Aeacides and Olympias wer
he boy's birth she had, with the knowledge and concurrence of the regent, drawn Stateira, or Barsine, and her sister Drypetis to Babylon by a friendly letter, and then caused them to be murdered [BARSINE, No. 2]. In B. C. 321, Roxana and her infant son accompanied Perdiccas in his expedition against Egypt; and on his death in the same year, she became subject to the guardianship of Pithon and Arrhidaeus. [ARRHIDAEUS, No. 2.] In B. 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
Sosi'genes
（*Swsige/nhs).
1. An officer who commanded the Phoenician fleet, which had been assembled by Eumenes to make head against his rivals in B. C. 318.
The fleet had arrived at Rhosus, where it was detained by contrary winds, when that of Antigonus suddenly arrived, adorned with garlands and other triumphal ornaments, from its recent victory at the Hellespont. Sosigenes himself was on shore, and was unable to restrain the crews, who immediately declared in favour of Antigonus, and joined the hostile fleet. (Polyaen. 4.6.9
Venno
3. L. Plautius Venno, L. F. L. N., consul B. C. 318 with M. Foslius Flaccinator, received hostages from the Teanenses and Canusini in Apulia. (Fasti Capit.; Liv. 9.20; Diod. 19.2.)
