Diodor. an. 1. Olymp. 111. Just. l. 9. c. 6. Q. Curt. l. 4. c. 1. Arrian. l. 2.1. PHILIP, King of Macedon, and Father of Alexander the Great. This Prince is spoke of in Scripture, but only by Incident, on Occasion of his Son Alexander. Philip was kill’d at Egea, a City of Macedonia, by Pausanias Son of Cerastus, while he was celebrating the Nuptials of his Daughter Cleopatra with Alexander King of Epirus; in the Year of the World 3668, before Christ 332, before the Vulgar Era 336. Alexander the Great, in his Letter to Darius, asserts, That the Persians, for a great Reward, had engaged the Murderers of his Father to the Perpetration of this Crime.
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