Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45
Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Ed.

[2] This was the end of the war between the Romans and Perseus, after four years of steady campaigning, and also the end of a kingdom famed over a large part of Europe and all of Asia. [3] They reckoned Perseus as the twentieth after Caranus, who founded the kingdom.¹ Perseus ascended the throne in the consulship of Quintus Fulvius and Lucius Manlius, and was recognized as king by the senate in the consulship of Marcus Junius and Aulus Manlius; his reign lasted eleven years. [4] The Macedonian nation was of no great reputation until the time of [p. 273]Philip, son of Amyntas. Later, when it had proceeded² to expand under him, it was still confined within the bounds of Europe, though embracing all Greece and part of Thrace and Illyricum. [5] Thereafter it overflowed into Asia, and Alexander, in the thirteen years of his reign, first brought under his sway all the well-nigh boundless empire that had belonged to the Persians, and then traversed Arabia and India, where the Indian Ocean embraces the uttermost ends of the earth. [6] At that time the empire and name of the Macedonians was greatest on earth; [7] thereafter at the death of Alexander it was torn into many kingdoms, as each leader snatched at resources for his own account, and its strength was dismembered; yet it endured for a hundred and fifty years³ from the topmost pinnacle of its fortune to its final end.