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Aelian - Varia Historia Book I.25 Alexander son of Philip (if anyone thinks he was the son of Zeus, it makes no difference to me) added the formula of greeting to his letters, they say, only when writing to the Athenian general Phocion. Such was the impression Phocion had made on the Macedonian. Bu...

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I haven't seen it, but the general opinion seems to be that it is just for mass-consumption rather than the purists.

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 8.40 Timoclea Timoclea was sister of Theagnes the Theban: that Theagnes, who fought Philip at Chaeronea; when he called out, whither would you pursue me? and was answer...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 6.49 Anaxagoras Anaxagoras, Codrus, and Diodorus, sons of Echeonax, slew Hegesias, tyrant of Ephesus: when Philoxenus, governor of Ionia under Alexander, demanded them ...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 5.18 Agathostratus The Rhodians being engaged in a war with Ptolemy, whose fleet then lay at Ephesus; Chremonidas, Ptolemy’s admiral, embarked, and put to sea, intendin...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.12 Lysimachus [1] Lysimachus apprehensive lest the Autariatae, who had been plundered of their baggage in an engagement with Demetrius, barbarians as they were*, and ...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.8 Eumenes (1) Eumenes, closely pursued by the Galatians, and at the same time so indisposed in health, as to be carried on a litter, when he found it impracticable to...

Hegesias of Magnesia (a rhetorician founder of 'asianism', a flowery literary current) lived in III century B.C., Dionysius of Halikarnassos (who supported 'atticism' an opposite literary current) in I cent. B.C. Therefore Dionysius quoted Hegesias. Thanks, hiphys. I should have worked it out for m...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. 4.4 Antipater (1) Antipater, in the Thracian war, having advanced into the country of the Tetrachoritae, ordered fire to be set to the horses’ hay, which lay before his...

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. Polyaenus. Stratagems of War 4.3 Alexander (1) Alexander whose ambition was, to unite all mankind to him, as the common head and superior of human nature, passed a decr...

BTW, I wasn't sure from the original Alexander sources website whether it was Dionysius quoting Hegesias, or the other way round.

Polyaenus Stratagems of War Translated by E. Shepherd. F.R.S. Unchanged reprint of the Edition: London 1793. Ares Publishers, Inc. Polyaenus. Stratagems of War 1.2 Pan Pan, a general under Bacchus, was the first who reduced to a regular system the marshalling of an army: he invented the phalanx, an...

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