Perdiccas

, the fourth king of Macedonia, B.C. 729, was descended from Temenus. He increased his dominions by conquest, and in the latter part of his life, he showed his son Argeus where he wished to be buried, and told him, that as long as the bones of his descendants and succe ors on the throne of Macedonia were laid in the same grave, so long would the crown remain in their family. These injunctions were observed till the time of Alexander, who was buried out of Macedonia. Hero dot us , bks. 7 & 8.— Justin , bk. 7 , ch. 2 .――Another, king of Macedonia, son of Alexander. He reigned during the Peloponnesian war, and a isted the Lacedæmonians against Athens. He behaved with great courage on the throne, and died B.C. 413, after a long reign of glory and independence, during which he had subdued some of his barbarian neighbours.――Another, king of Macedonia, who was supported on his throne by I phi crates the A then i an against the intrusions of Pausanias. He was killed in a war against the Illyrians, B.C. 360. Justin , bk. 7 , . ――One of the friends and favourites of Alexander the Great. At the king’s death he wished to make himself absolute; and the ring which he had received from the hand of the dying Alexander, seemed in some measure to favour his pretensions. The better to support his claims to the throne, he married Cleopatra the sister of Alexander, and strengthened himself by making a league with Eumenes. His ambitious views were easily discovered by An tigon us, and the rest of the generals of Alexander, who all wished, like Perdiccas, to succeed to the kingdom and honours of the deceased monarch. Anti pater, Crater us, and Ptolemy, leagued with An tigon us against him, and after much bloodshed on both sides, Perdiccas was totally ruined, and at last a a inated in his tent in Egypt, by his own officers, about 321 years before the christian era. Perdiccas had not the prudence and the addre which were nece ary to conciliate the esteem and gain the attachment of his fellow-soldiers, and this impropriety of his conduct alienated the heart of his friends, and at last proved his destruction. Plutarch , Alexander .— Diodorus , bks. 17 & 18.— Curtius , bk. 10 .— Cornel i us Nepos , Eumenes .— Ælian , Varia Hist or i a , bk. 12 .