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A peculiar coincidence befell in this year, for three of those in positions of power died about the same time. Amyntas,1 son of Arrhidaeus, king of Macedonia died after a rule of twenty-four years, leaving behind him three sons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip. The son Alexander2 succeeded to the throne and ruled for one year.

1 See Book 14.89, 92.3; chap. 19.2 and Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.2.56-58.

2 See chap. 67.4. The beginning of his reign is placed in the archonship of Phrasicleides 371/0 in the Marm. Par. 72.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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