Archelaus

As Mithridates drew near and put out his hand, Sylla demanded whether he was willing or no to end the war on the terms Archelaus had agreed to, but seeing the king made no answer, “How is this?” he continued, “ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The spot on which he encamped is called Archelaus from his name up to the present day.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

"Archelaus," said Ishmael, speaking very distinctly and bending over the old man to try and attract his wandering attention, "when you came back from California, had you it in your mind to do this thing?"

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

[507] Prologue of the 'Archelaus' of Euripides, a tragedy now lost.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

"Archelaus," he said, "you are the older; take the tiller here and give me the oar for a spell."

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The curable are those who are benefited by their punishment; the incurable are such as Archelaus, who benefit others by becoming a warning to them.

Gorgias 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

The reference of the mythus to the previous discussion should not be overlooked: the fate reserved for incurable criminals such as Archelaus; the retaliation of the box on the ears; the nakedness of the souls and of the judges who are stript of the clothes or disguises which rhetoric and public opinion have hitherto provided for them (compare Swift's notion that the universe is a suit of clothes, Tale of a Tub).

Gorgias 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

In 399, the same year Socrates was forced to drink hemlock in Athens, Archelaus was murdered during a hunting expedition by his friend and lover Craterus.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Earlier kings had long encouraged Greek culture among the nobility, but Archelaus made it a top priority.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Perdiccas was murdered by his illegitimate son Archelaus who—amid the swirl of treachery, violence, and vicious love triangles, heterosexual and homosexual, that were part of everyday life in the Macedonian court—took the throne and began an intensive program of Hellenization.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011