99.
Having mustered at Doberus, they made ready to descend over the heights
into the plains of Macedonia, which were the territory of Perdiccas.1
[2]
There is an upper Macedonia, which is inhabited by Lyncestians, Elimiots, and other
tribes; these are the allies and tributaries of the lower Macedonians, but have kings of
their own.
[3]
The maritime country which we now call Macedonia was conquered and formed into a
kingdom by Alexander the father of Perdiccas and his ancestors the Temenidae, who
originally came from Argos2.
They defeated and drove out of Pieria the Pierians, who afterwards settled in Phagres
and other places at the foot of Mount Pangaeus, beyond the Strymon; the land which lies
under Mount Pangaeus towards the sea is still called the Pierian vale.
They also drove out of Bottia, as it is called, the Bottiaeans, who are now the
neighbours of the Chalcidians, and they acquired a narrow strip of Paeonia by the river
Axius, reaching down to Pella and the sea.
[4]
Beyond the Axius they possess the country called Mygdonia reaching to the Strymon, out
of which they have driven the Edonians.
[5]
They expelled from the country still called Eordia the Eordians, of whom the greater
part perished, but a small remnant of them settled in the neighbourhood of Physca; and
from Almopia the Almopians.
[6]
They and their subjects further subdued and still hold various places belonging to
other tribes, Anthemus, Grestonia, Bisaltia, and a great part of the original Macedonia.
But the whole of this. country is now called Macedonia, and was under the rule of
Perdiccas the son of Alexander at the time of the invasion of Sitalces.
1 Early history of the Macedonian kingdom.
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