420 ARATUS.

amidst so many misfortunes he had but one good chance, which was the having a son of great virtue and merit, him, through jealousy and envy at the honor the Eomans had for him, he caused to be murdered, and left his king- dom to Perseus, who, as some say, was not his own child, but supposititious, born of a sempstress called Gnathaenion. This was he whom Paulus ^milius led in triumph, and in whom ended the succession of Antigonus's line and kins- dom. But the posterity of Aratus continued still in our days at Sicyon and Pellene.