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pias withdrew from Philip's company, and when he had placed her in Epirus, he himself retired into Illyria. About this time, Demaratus the Corinthian, an old friend of the family, who had the freedom to say any thing among them without offence, coming to visit Philip, after the first compliments and embraces were over, Philip asked him, whether the Grecians were at amity with one another. " It ill becomes you," replied Demara- tus, "to be so solicitous about Greece, when you have in- volved your own house in so many dissensions and calam- ities." He was so convinced by this seasonable reproach, that he immediately sent for his son home, and by De- maratus's mediation prevailed with him to return. But this reconciliation lasted not long; for when Pixodorus, viceroy of Caria, sent Aristocritus to treat for a match between his eldest daughter and Philip's son Arrhidaeus, hoping by this alliance to secure his assistance upon occa- sion, Alexander's mother, and some who pretended to be his friends, presently filled his head with tales and calum- nies, as if Philip, by a splendid marriage and important alliance, w T ere preparing the way for settling the kingdom upon Arrhidaeus. In alarm at this, he despatched Thes- salus, the tragic actor, into Caria, to dispose Pixodorus to slight Arrhidaeus, both as illegitimate and a fool, and rather to accept of himself for his son-in-law. This prop- osition was much more agreeable to Pixodorus than the former. But Philip, as soon as he was made acquainted with this transaction, went to his son's apartment, taking with him Philotas, the son of Parmenio, one of Alexander's intimate friends and companions, and there reproved him severely, and reproached him bitterly, that he should be so degenerate, and unworthy of the power he was to leave him, as to desire the alliance of a mean Carian, who was at best but the slave of a barbarous prince. Nor did this

satisfy his resentment, for he wrote to the Corinthians, to