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572 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *m, entry *makedoni/a
   Macedon, :—also (20.90)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *m, entry *mi^mallw/n
   , mostly in pl., Macedon., = (16.98)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter C
   An Athenian, who in B. C. 358 was sent with Antiphon as ambassador to Philip of Macedon, ostensibly to confirm the friendship between the king and the Athenians, but authorized to negotiate with him secretly for the recovery of Amphipolis, and to promise that the republic, in return for it, would make him master of Pydna. (14.91)

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11 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, King Henry V (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 4, scene 7
   Gow. I think Alexander the Great was
   born in
   Macedon: his father was called Philip
   of Macedon, as I
   take it. (7.34)

2. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Alexander
   Alexander, 1) the king of Macedon: . (6.33)

3. William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 2, scene 2, line 28
   Thai. A prince of Macedon, my royal fa- ther;
   
   And the device he bears upon his shield
   
   Is an arm'd knight that's conquered by a lady;
   
   The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.
   (5.28)

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2 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices section SOURCE OF THE PLOT, subsection Plutarch
   Then Antonius sent vnto Canidius, to return with his army into Asia, by Macedon. (2.02)

2. Appendices section SOURCE OF THE PLOT, subsection Plutarch
   And Canidius also, who had charge of his armie by land, when time came to follow Antonius determination: he turned him cleane contrarie, and counselled him to send Cleopatra backe againe, and himselfe to retire into Macedon, to fight there on the maine land. (1.27)

3 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter L, entry 18225
   poet; probably educated at Westminster and Jesus College, Oxford; B.A., 1702; published ‘Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands,’ 1726, ‘Philip of Macedon’ (tragedy), 1727, acted three times, and ‘Collection of Miscellany Poems,’ 1730. [xxxiii. (4.18)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter L, entry 18044
   historian; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1737; B.A., 1741; fellow, 1746; published Latin translation of the Philippics of Demosthenes, 1754, and English translation, 1754-61; published the ‘History of Philip, King of Macedon,’ 1758; presented the Irish manuscript chronicle, ‘Annals of Loch Cé,’ to Trinity College Library, 1766; vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin, 1773; D.D.; published ‘History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, with a preliminary Discourse on the ancient State of that Kingdom,’ 1773. [xxxiii. (3.49)

3. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 76, object 1
   The history of the Farnese Hercules, which the present bust so much resembles, is this: the city of Perinthus (the metropolis of Thrace) was twice besieged by Philip of Macedon; the citizens, however, by the strength of their situation, their own valour, and the intervention of friends, preserved their liberty. (3.49)

11 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 350
   Was born in Palmyra (now Macedon), N. Y., Mar. 5, 1812. (5.15)

2. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 206
   He removed to Wayne County, N. Y., in 1804, and lived in Macedon until 1833, when he settled in Palmyra, Mich., where he took up 2,500 acres of land. (4.64)

3. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869 page 445
   It does us little good to know that Alexander, king of Macedon, overthrew Porus, the Hindu king, if we do not know what kind of men Alexander and Porus really were, under what conditions they lived, and what their deeds actually signified in that age. (4.18)

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