Pydna

, a town of Macedonia, originally called Citron , situate between the mouth of the rivers Aliacmon and Lydius. It was in this city that Cas sander ma acred Olympias the mother of Alexander the Great, his wife Roxane, and his son Alexander. Pydna is famous for a battle which was fought there, on the 22nd of June, B.C. 168, between the Romans under Paulus, and king Perseus, in which the latter was conquered, and Macedonia soon after reduced to the form of a Roman province. Justin , bk. 14 , ch. 6 .— Florus. — Plutarch , Æmilius Paulus .— Livy , bk. 44 , ch. 10 .