formidable to the successors of Alexander, that none of them dared to assume the title of king. _Curtius_, _Arrian_, & _Plutarch_ have written an account of Alexander’s life. _Diodorus_, bks. 17 & 18.――_Pausanias_, bks. 1, 7, 8, & 9.――_Justin_, bks. 11 & 12.―― _Valerius Maximus._――_Strabo_, bk. 1, &c.――――A son of Alexander the Great, by Roxane, put to death, with his mother, by Cassander. _Justin_, bk. 15, ch. 2.――――A man who, after the expulsion of Telestes, reigned in Corinth. Twenty-five years after, Telestes dispossessed him, and put him to death.――――A son of Cassander king of Macedonia, who reigned two years conjointly with his brother Antipater, and was prevented by Lysimachus from revenging his mother Thessalonica, whom his brother had murdered. Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, put him to death. _Justin_, bk. 16, ch. 1.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 7.――――A king of Epirus, brother to Olympias, and successor to Arybas. He banished Timolaus to Peloponnesus, and made war in Italy against the Romans, and observed that he fought with men, while his nephew, Alexander the Great, was fighting with an army of women (meaning the Persians). He was surnamed Molossus. _Justin_, bk. 17, ch. 3.――_Diodorus_, bk. 16.――_Livy_, bk. 8, chs. 17 & 27.――_Strabo_, bk. 16.――――A son of Pyrrhus, was king of Epirus. He conquered Macedonia, from which he was expelled by Demetrius. He recovered it by the assistance of the Acarnanians. _Justin_, bk. 26, ch. 3.――_Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.――――A king of Syria, driven from his kingdom by Nicanor son of Demetrius Soter, and his father-in-law Ptolemy Philometer. _Justin_, bk. 35, chs. 1 & 2.――_Josephus_, bk. 13, _Antiquities of the Jews_.――_Strabo_, bk. 17.――――A king of Syria, first called Bala, was a merchant, and succeeded Demetrius. He conquered Nicanor by means of Ptolemy Physcon, and was afterwards killed by Antiochus Gryphus son of Nicanor. _Josephus_, _Antiquities of the Jews_, bk. 13, ch. 18.――――Ptolemy was one of the Ptolemean kings in Egypt. His mother Cleopatra raised him to the throne, in preference to his brother Ptolemy Lathurus, and reigned conjointly with him. Cleopatra, however, expelled him, and soon after recalled him; and Alexander, to prevent being expelled a second time, put her to death, and for this unnatural action was himself murdered by one of his subjects. _Josephus_, bk. 13, _Antiquities of the Jews_, ch. 20, &c.――_Justin_, bk. 39, chs. 3 & 4.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 9. ――――Ptolemy II., king of Egypt, was son of the preceding. He was educated in the island of Cos, and, falling into the hands of Mithridates, escaped to Sylla, who restored him to his kingdom. He was murdered by his subjects a few days after his restoration. _Appian_, bk. 1, _Civil Wars_.――――Ptolemy III., was king of Egypt after his brother Alexander the last mentioned. After a peaceful reign, he was banished by his subjects, and died at Tyre, B.C. 65,