“Accordingly, the subjects of Sitalces mustered at Doberus, and prepared for a descent into Lower Macedonia, which country was under the rule of Perdiccas. For to the Macedonians belong(1950) the Lyncestæ and the Elimiots, and other nations in the upper parts of the country, which are the allies and subjects(1951) of these Macedonians,(1952) but have nevertheless princes of their own. The present kingdom of Macedonia, extending along the sea,(1953) was first occupied by Alexander the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors of the family of Temenus, who came originally from Argos; and ruled over it, having by force of arms expelled the Pierians from Pieria,(1954) and the Bottiæans from the district called Bottiæa. They also obtained in Pæonia a narrow tongue of land, extending along the river Axius down to Pella and the sea: and on the further side of the Axius they possess the district called Mygdonia, as far as the Strymon, of which they dispossessed the Edones. They also dislodged the Eordians from the country still called Eordia, and from Almopia the Almopians. These Macedonians also subdued those other nations which they now possess; viz., Anthemus, together with Crestonia and Bisaltia, and a large part of the Macedonians themselves. The whole of this country together is called Macedonia; and Perdiccas, the son of Alexander, was king of it when Sitalces made his invasion.” 13. This chapter has not by any means been exhausted by those who have written on the growth and size of Macedonia; and therefore it will be convenient to set down some of the chief inferences which may be drawn from it. In the first place, it is plain that the Macedonians, who made the conquest, and founded the kingdom of Macedon, were _not the whole Macedonian nation_, but only a part of it. There were in the mountainous districts Macedonian tribes, which had their own kings, and originally were not subject to the Temenidæ. These are the Macedonian highlanders of Herodotus,(1955) from whose district the road passed over mount Olympus (the Cambunian chain) into the country of the Perrhæbians;(1956) and it began, as has been already remarked, in Elimeia.(1957) The Elimiots were, according to Thucydides, one portion of these Macedonians, the Lyncestæ another; both which appellations were merely local, and the full title was “_the Macedonians in Lyncus_,” or “the Macedonian Lyncestæ.”(1958) Of the _remaining_ Macedonian nations in the mountain-districts we only know the name of the Orestæ;(1959) at least there are no others who can with any certainty be considered as Macedonians.