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...ason why Alexander gave command to his captains that all the beards of the Macedonians should be shaved, as being the readiest hold for an enemy. Aeth... ...ey lead forth the mystic Iacchus, the Athenians received a garrison of the Macedonians. On the selfsame day the Romans lost their army under Caepio by... ...ladelphus; good fortune, Eudaemon, the title of the second Battus. Several monarchs have also had names given them in mockery, as Antigonus was called... ...lic matters, when the Romans were engaged in war with Perseus, king of the Macedonians, and great complaints were made of their commanders, who, eithe... ...ince had vanquished king Philip in Thessaly, and freed the Greeks from the Macedonian yoke; nay, had over- come Hannibal himself, who far surpassed al... ...tly improved both the 439 Plutarch’s Lives strength and discipline of the Macedonian army. To make which appear, I shall briefly recount the story fr...

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...ere by Hercules. Thus much I may mention for the sake of king Juba, of all monarchs the greatest student of history, whose ances- tors are said to hav... ... Alexander with shield and spear, but Eumenes only with pen and paper, the Macedonians laughed at him, as knowing very well that, besides other marks ... ...oming him, who was a stranger, to interpose in the private quarrels of the Macedonians. And when the rest of Alexander’s friends left Babylon, he stay... ... Pontic Sea as far as Trebizond, which at that time was not subject to the Macedonians, for Ariarathes kept it as king, but Leonnatus and Antigonus, w... ...y- rant of the Cardians, and requested rather to relieve Antipater and the Macedonians that were besieged in Lamia, he re- solved upon that expedition... ...Eumenes exerted himself to gain by personal attentions; but to balance the Macedonian foot, whom he found insolent and self-willed, he contrived to ra... ...t day treated in, and could insult over, the stately palace of the Persian monarchs. But, she added, it would please her much better, if while the kin...

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...he fashion of the Lion of the North, the immortal Gustavus, would beat the Macedonian phalanx, of which I used to read in the Mareschal-College, when ... ...Dalgetty had it to boast, that he had sate with princes at feasts made for monarchs, and therefore was not a person to be brow-beat even by the dignit... ...d and armed. The favourite Scottish order of battle somewhat resembled the Macedonian phalanx. Their infantry formed a compact body, armed with long s...

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...ns puts this other fancy in my head: that it is a kind of pusillanimity in monarchs, and a testimony that they do not sufficiently understand themselv... ... went about by presents to gain 138 Essays: Book III the affection of the Macedonians, reprimanded him in a let- ter after this manner: “What! hast t... ...; witness my CANNIBALS.—[Chapter XXX. of Book I.] Of the two most puissant monarchs of that world, and, peradventure, of this, kings of so many kings,...

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...ands, to come in to his aid. An emblem, no doubt, to show how safe it is for monarchs, to make sure of the good will of common people. To give moderat... ...ession. It is a strange thing to observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship, whereof we speak: so great... ...ugh not wisely) framed and composed, to that scope and end. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Norman... ...nce was known in the city of the Oxidrakes in India; and was that, which the Macedonians called thunder and lightning, and magic. And it is well known...

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...hints at the motive for the deception. Cleon, in his speech persuading the Macedonians to obey their king, adopted a similar device: for after going t... ...e, especially those who are wise “ (Curtius, viii. Para. 66). However, the Macedonians were more prudent – indeed, it is only complete barbarians who ... ...ne special providence and aid. Similar fictions have been promul- gated by monarchs, with the object of strengthening their do- minion, but these I wi... ...ter having shortly, be- fore reproved him too sharply. This freedom of the Macedonians, which he so dreaded, he was not able to sub- due till after th... ...rious rule, and can in nowise brook a dominion within their own. The first monarchs, being chosen from the ranks of private citizens, were content wit... ..., till at last he himself mounted to the summits of dominion; however much monarchs, and especially the German emperors, strove to curtail his authori...

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...ans to the Medes, from the Medes to the Persians, from the Persians to the Macedonians, from the Macedonians to the Romans, from the Romans to the Gre... ...ly royal. Just such another was the emperor of the universe, Alexander the Macedonian. After this manner was Hercules sovereign possessor of the whole... ...s the saxifragum, betony, and finally ending as it were in the points of a Macedonian spear, or of such a lancet as surgeons commonly make use of in t... ...ore readily obeyed by everyone than the statutes of senates or commands of monarchs. Neither will he admit the least let or delay in his summons. You ...

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...e tradition of the European unity under the Roman empire; all the Germanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. The Kaiser of the Austro-Hun- gar... ...r- stood that these meetings were the lubrication of European affairs. The monarchs married largely, conspicuously, and very expensively for our good.... ...s—the present Crown Prince goes a-wandering. We do not want any German ex- monarchs; Sweden is always open to them and friendly, and to Sweden they ou... ...ose petty states collapsed, through sheer political ineptitude, before the Macedonians. They thought in terms of states so small that it was possible ...

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...ubled period of the Reformation also produced sev eral eminent hereditary monarchs—Elizabeth, Henri Quatre, Gustavus Adolphus; but they were mostly b... ... the more advanced in improvement, is able to overcome the greater, as the Macedonians, re enforced by the Greeks, did Asia, and the English India, th... ...nt for their own defense, are hemmed in on all sides by military or feudal monarchs, who hate and despise freedom even in a neigh bor, those states h... ... to do for its subjects all that could be done by a succession of absolute monarchs, guaranteed by irresistible force against the precariousness of te...

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...ee what succour from the patriot race. C——, 91 his own proud dupe, thinks monarchs things Made just for him, as other fools for kings; Controls, deci... ...ather of Alexander, to whom those kings suc- ceeded in the division of the Macedonian Empire, and whose horns they wore on their medals.—P . W. 425 ‘...

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...ities of their representatives have, upon various occasions, dragged their monarchs into war, or continued them in it, contrary to their inclinations,... ...est; the union was dissolved. Some of the cities fell under the tyranny of Macedonian garrisons; others under that of usurpers springing out of their ... ... of the Achaeans, threw a fatal damp on the enter- prise. The dread of the Macedonian power induced the league to court the alliance of the Kings of E... ...opportunity to that powerful neighbor of intermeddling in their affairs. A Macedonian army quickly appeared. Cleomenes was van- quished. The Achaeans ...