Pella

, a celebrated town of Macedonia, on the Ludias, not far from the Sinus Thermaicus, which became the capital of the country after the ruin of Ede a. Philip king of Macedonia was educated there, and Alexander the Great was born there, whence he is often called Pellæus juvenis . The tomb of the poet Euripi des was in the neighbourhood. The epithet Pellæus is often applied to Egypt or Alexandria, because the Ptolemies, kings of the country, were of Maced on i an origin. Martial , bk. 13 , ltr. 85 .— Lucan , bk. 5 , li. 60 ; bk. 8 , lis. 475 & 607; bk. 9 , lis. 1016 & 1073; bk. 10 , li. 55 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 7 .— Livy , bk. 42 , ch. 41 .