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They trace his genealogy thus, as Diodorus says, that is, most of the historians, of whom Theopompus is one. Caranus son of Pheidon, son of Aristodamidas, son of Merops, son of Theostius, son of Cissius, son of Temenus, son of Aristomachus, son of Cleadatus, son of Hyllus, son of Heracles. But some, he says, trace the genealogy differently, asserting that Caranus was the son of Poias, son of Croisus, son of Cleodaius, son of Eurybiades, son of Deballus, son of Lachares, son of Temenus, who also descended into the Peloponnese. This Caranus reigned for 30 years; after him his son Coenus for 28 years. And after him his son Caranus for 30 years, Tyrimmas for 45 years, and he acquired the rest of the country of Macedonia and increased the kingdom as a whole. Then Argeius son of Tyrimmas for 34 years, after whom Philip son of Argeius for 35 years. In addition to these, Alcetas son of Philip for *** years, then Amyntas son of Alcetas for *** years, next Alexander son of Amyntas. This man, at the time of Xerxes' crossing, gave earth and water to the Persians. This man had 2 sons, Perdiccas and Amyntas, of whom Perdiccas reigned for *** years, but Amyntas, having lived his whole life as a private citizen, left a son Aridaeus, whose son was another Amyntas, named after his grandfather, concerning whom 317 it will be told next how he came to the throne. For after Perdiccas, Archelaus his son reigned for 14 years, to whom Euripides the tragedian also came and spent all his time being honored by him. But when Archelaus was killed, Orestes his son succeeded to the kingdom for 4 years. His guardian Aeropus killed him and reigned after him for 4 years. After him Amyntas, having reigned for 1 year, was expelled by the Macedonians. And the aforementioned Amyntas was confined, son of Aridaeus who was the son of Amyntas son of Alexander, in whose time, as has been said before, the crossing of Xerxes into Greece took place. So when this Amyntas had reigned for 12 years, Alexander his first son succeeded to the rule for 1 year. And after him Ptolemy, called of Aloros, ruled, a stranger to the family, for *** years. Perdiccas, himself also a son of Amyntas, having killed this man, having held the kingdom of the Macedonians for 23 years, and having done all things properly and in order, showing the rule of the Macedonians to be the greatest of all in Europe, this man enslaved all the enemies around the country, wishing to bring the Greeks themselves under his hand, having acquired a great force and subdued the Triballi. In his time Plato died, having grown old, and Aristotle the Stagirite, son of Nicomachus, flourished, of whom Alexander, the son of this Philip by his wife Olympias, became a student, she whom the Greeks say draws her lineage from Achilles son of Thetis. This Philip, a short time before his death, besieged Byzantium; but with the Athenians allied with the Byzantines under the general Chares, Philip, having failed, proceeds to the Chersonese, and having taken this, he returned. Then he also makes a truce with the Athenians, having reigned, as has been said before, for 23 years, and was killed by Pausanias at the beginning of the 110th Olympiad, during which 318 Alexander his son became king of the Macedonians. For after his father Philip he was proclaimed king in the 1st year of Darius, son of Arsames, who became king of the Persians after Cyrus. Up to this time of Alexander's reign, the time that has passed is, from the 1st Olympiad, and its very beginning, in which Romulus founded Rome, 420 years, and from the fall of Troy, 800 years. Alexander, therefore, in his twentieth year according to Dexippus, trained in all physical exercise, and having become a most genuine student of the divinely inspired Aristotle, came into his paternal kingdom. And first, having gained control of Thrace and all of Greece except Lacedaemon alone, he crosses into great Asia for the Persian war, first having defeated the Persian armies at the Granicus river, then he also fights with Darius himself at Issus in Cilicia, and finally he proceeds into the interior of Assyria. And finding Darius killed by a certain Bessus, one of his commanders, he buries him magnificently, having

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γενεαλογοῦσι δ' αὐτὸν οὕτως, ὥς φησιν ὁ ∆ιόδωρος, οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν συγγραφέων, ὧν εἷς καὶ Θεόπομπος. Κάρανος Φείδωνος τοῦ Ἀριστοδαμίδα τοῦ Μέροπος τοῦ Θεοστίου τοῦ Κισσίου τοῦ Τημένου τοῦ Ἀριστομάχου τοῦ Κλεαδάτους τοῦ Ὕλλου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους. ἔνιοι δὲ ἄλλως, φησί, γενεαλογοῦσι, φάσκοντες εἶναι Κάρανον Ποίαντος τοῦ Κροίσου τοῦ Κλεοδαίου τοῦ Εὐρυ βιάδα τοῦ ∆εβάλλου τοῦ Λαχάρους τοῦ Τημένου, ὃς καὶ κατῆλθεν εἰς Πελοπόννησον. Οὗτος ὁ Κάρανος λʹ ἔτη ἐβασίλευσε· μεθ' ὃν Κοῖνος παῖς ἔτη κηʹ. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ὁ υἱὸς Κάρανος ἔτη λʹ Τυριμμᾶς ἔτη μεʹ, καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν τῆς Μακεδονίας προσελάβετο χώραν καὶ καθ' ὅλου τὴν βασιλείαν ηὔξησεν. εἶτα Ἀργεῖος παῖς Τυριμμᾶ ἔτη λδʹ, μεθ' ὃν Φίλιππος υἱὸς Ἀργείου ἔτη λεʹ. πρὸς οἷς Ἀλκέτας ὁ Φιλίππου υἱὸς ἔτη ***, εἶτ' Ἀμύντας υἱὸς Ἀλκέτου ἔτη ***, ἑξῆς Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀμύντου. Οὗτος κατὰ τὴν Ξέρξου διάβασιν Πέρσαις ἔδωκεν ὕδωρ καὶ γῆν. οὗτος ἔσχε βʹ υἱούς, Περδίκκαν καὶ Ἀμύνταν, ὧν Περδίκκας μὲν ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ***, Ἀμύντας δὲ πάντα τὸν βίον ἰδιωτικῶς ζήσας κατέλιπεν υἱὸν Ἀριδαῖον, οὗ παῖς γέγονεν Ἀμύντας ἕτερος ὁμώνυμος τῷ πάππῳ, περὶ οὗ 317 ἑξῆς λεχθήσεται, πῶς ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν παρῆλθε. μετὰ γὰρ Περδίκκαν Ἀρχέλαος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ιδʹ, πρὸς ὃν καὶ Εὐριπίδης τρα γῳδοποιὸς παραγενηθεὶς πάντα τὸν χρόνον διῆξε τιμώμενος παρ' αὐτῷ. Ἀρχελάου δ' ἀναιρεθέντος διεδέξατο τὴν βασιλείαν Ὀρέστης υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη δʹ. ὃν ἀνεῖλεν Ἀερόπας ἐπίτροπος καὶ ἐβασίλευσε μετ' αὐτὸν ἔτη δʹ. μεθ' ὃν Ἀμύντας ἔτος αʹ βασιλεύσας ὑπὸ Μακεδόνων ἐξεβλήθη. καὶ Ἀμύντας ὁ προρρηθεὶς καθείρχθη, υἱὸς μὲν Ἀριδαίου τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἀμύντουτοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου, καθ' ὃν, ὡς προείρηται, γέγονεν ἡ Ξέρξου διάβασις ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα. Ἀμύντου τοίνυν τούτου βασιλεύσαντος ἔτη ιβʹ διεδέξατο τὴν ἀρχὴν Ἀλέξανδρος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ πρῶτος ἔτος αʹ. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Πτολεμαῖος ἦρξεν ὁ λεγόμενος Ἀλωρίτης, ἀλλότριος τοῦ γένους, ἔτη ***. τοῦτον ἀνελὼν Περδίκκας υἱὸς καὶ αὐτὸς Ἀμύντου, ἔτη κγʹ κρατήσας τῆς βασιλείας Μακεδόνων, δεόντως τε ἅπαντα πράξας καὶ κατὰ τάξιν, μεγίστην πασῶν τῶν κατὰ τὴν Εὐρώπην ἀναδείξας τὴν Μακεδόνων ἀρχήν, οὗτος τοὺς περὶ τὴν χώραν ἅπαντας ἐδουλώσατο πο λεμίους, βουληθεὶς καὶ αὐτοὺς Ἕλληνας ὑπὸ χεῖρα ποιήσασθαι, μεγάλην κτησάμενος δύναμιν καὶ Τριβάλλους ὑποτάξας. ἐπ' αὐτοῦ Πλάτων μὲν τελευτᾷ καταγηράσας, Ἀριστοτέλης δ' ὁ Σταγειρίτης Νικομάχου παῖς ἤνθει, οὗ καὶ ἀκροατὴς γέγονεν Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Φιλίππου τούτου παῖς ἐξ Ὀλυμπιάδος γαμετῆς, ἣν Ἕλληνές φασιν ἐξ Ἀχιλλέως τοῦ Θέτιδος φέρειντὸ γένος. Φίλιππος οὗτος πρὸ μικροῦ χρόνου τῆς τελευτῆς τὸ Βυζάντιον ἐπολιόρ κησε· συμμαχούντων δὲ Βυζαντίοις Ἀθηναίων διὰ Χάρητος στρατηγοῦ ἀποτυχὼν ὁ Φίλιππος ἐπὶ Χερρόνησον χωρεῖ, καὶ ταύτην λαβὼν ἐπανῆλθε. τότε καὶ Ἀθηναίοις σπένδεται βασιλεύσας, ὡς προλέλεκται, ἔτη κγʹ, καὶ ἀναιρεθεὶς ὑπὸ Παυσανίου κατὰ τὴν ριʹ ὀλυμπιάδα ἀρχομένην, καθ' ἣν 318 Ἀλέξανδρος παῖς ἐβασίλευε Μακεδόνων. μετὰ γὰρ τὸν πατέρα Φίλιππον ἀναδέδεικται κατὰ τὸ αʹ ἔτος ∆αρείου Ἀρσάμου Περσῶν βασιλέως μετὰ Κῦρον γεγονότος. Μέχρι τοῦ νῦν τῆς ἀρχῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου γίνεται χρόνος ἀπὸ μὲν αʹ ὀλυμπιάδος καὶ αὐτῆς ἀρχομένης, καθ' ἣν Ῥωμύλος Ῥώμην κτίζει, ἔτη υκʹ, ἀπὸ δὲ Τροίας ἁλώσεως ἔτη ωʹ. Ἀλέξανδρος οὖν εἰκοστὸν ἄγων ἔτος κατὰ ∆έξιππον πᾶσαν ἄσκησιν ἠσκημένος σωματικήν, αὐτοῦ τε γνησιώτατος Ἀριστοτέλους γεγονὼς τοῦ δαιμονιῶντος φοιτητής, ἐπὶ τὴν πατρῴαν παρῆλθε βασιλείαν. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν Θρᾴκης καὶ Ἑλλάδος ἁπάσης πλὴν Λακεδαίμονος μόνης κρατήσας, εἰς τὴν μεγάλην Ἀσίαν διὰ τὸν Περσικὸν περαιοῦται πόλεμον, ἐν Γρανικῷ τε ποταμῷ πρότερον καταγωνισάμενος τῶν Περσικῶν στρατευμάτων, ἔπειτα καὶ ἐν Ἰσσῷ τῆς Κιλικίας αὐτῷ πολεμεῖ ∆αρείῳ, καὶ τελευταῖον εἴσω χωρεῖ τῆς Ἀσσυρίας. καταλαβὼν δὲ ∆αρεῖον ὑπὸ Βησσᾶ τινος τῶν ἀρχόντων ἀναιρεθέντα θάπτει μεγαλοπρεπῶς, ἔχων