Son of Iolaos,1 from the city of Palioura in Macedonia,2 general of Philip [II], then of Alexander [sc. the Great], and successor to the kingship; a pupil of Aristotle. He left a compilation of letters in 2 books and a history, The Illyrian Deeds of Perdikkas.3 And he served as guardian to the son of Alexander known as Herakles.4 He alone of the Successors did not choose to call Alexander a god, judging this impious. He lived 77 years and left a son and successor, Kassandros,5 the man who killed Alexander's mother Olympias.6
[It is said] that when the Athenians surrendered Athens↗ to Antipatros the Macedonian, the demagogues, having urged the Athenians to revolt, were afraid that they would lay the blame upon them and fled. The Athenians condemned them to death in their absence. Among them were Demosthenes the orator and Hyperides and Himeraios, [Demades] having proposed the motion for death. For he had become in no respect more moderate in his opinion, since there cannot even be any change in a nature conjoined with wickedness. The injunction of law, as it does not completely hold [that nature] in check, is overcome by it, as is the force opposing it in its various inclinations. Neither by fear is over-confidence deflected, nor is a constraining shame sufficient to persuade it into subjection to the law.7
?397-319. See A.B. Bosworth in OCD(4) p.107, under Antipater(1). See also alpha 2704.
1So too in the (unusually brief) entry in Harpokration s.v.↩
2Otherwise unattested, but emendations to (e.g.) Potidaea have not been found convincing.↩
3(Entry thus far = FGrH 114 T1.) This 'Perdikkas' is evidently the Macedonian king of that name, Perdikkas III, Philip II's elder brother and immediate predecessor (reigned 365-359).↩
4a.k.a. Alexander IV (323-c.310), posthumous son of Alexander the Great and Rhoxane. See again at epsilon 2733.↩
H. Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographische Grundlage (Munich 1926) vol.2 no.94
C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony (Cambridge Mass. 1997) ch.2.
W. Heckel, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire (London & New York 1992) 38-49