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may have transferred troops under his command to Artaxerxes for use in
the Cadusian War before Philip’s attack on Perinthus, so these would not
have been available for use against Philip in 340. See Diod. 16.50.7.
Debord 1999: 420 is skeptical about Hecatomnid involvement in the
defense of Perinthus and other sites at this time because of the absence of
any direct evidence.
7. There were Hecatomnid garrisons in Rhodes and Cos, at least in the
350s: Diod. 15.3, 27; Ruzicka 1992: 92–93.
8. Ruzicka 1992: 127–28.
9. On these fi gures, see Debord 1999 104, 419, 421; Ruzicka 1985:
84–87.
10. Mentor disappears from sources entirely after Diodorus’ mention
of his dispatch of mercenaries, and Memnon is henceforth leading fi gure
in the region, see Beloch 1922: 603; Debord 1999: 435.
11. Hamilton 1969: 25; Heckel 2006: s.v. “Aristocritus.”
12. Scholars unanimously accept Plutarch’s presentation of the affair
as starting with an approach to Philip by Pixodarus. Proposed dates for
that event range from “later in 337” (after Alexander returned from I llyria)
(Worthington 2004: 29) and “perhaps in winter of 337/6” (Worthington
2003a: 92; French and Dixon 1986: 76) to “not before the end of spring
336” (Hatzopoulos 1982b: 61). 337/6 .
13. Carney 2000a: 54 attributes the remarks about fi ghting war through
marriage to Athenaeus himself rather than Satyrus.
14. Nowhere in Alex. 10.1–3 does Plutarch explicitly state that Pixodarus
initiated contact with Alexander and was the fi rst to propose a marriage
alliance. Plutarch states only that Pixodarus wished to “slip into” an alliance
through a marriage and for that purpose sent Aristocritus to Philip.
That could well describe Pixodarus’ response to Philip’s offer, and it may be
that Plutarch simply started his account with Aristocritus’ journey to Pella,
since it was the quarrel that subsequently occurred there that interested
Plutarch, not any of the details of the sequence of diplomatic exchanges.
15. Worthington 2003a: 92 can serve to represent this scholarly consensus.
16. Thus French and Dixon 1986: 77–80, who are alone in having the
Pixodarus affair begin (with Pixodarus’ supposedly initial overture) while
Alexander was still in Illyria.
17. Heckel 1981b: 54.
18. Contra Carney 1992a: 177–78, who characterizes Alexander’s exile
as “not lengthy” and refers to the probability of Olympias’ “relatively
rapid return from exile.”
19. Carney 2003a: 228–29.
20. Perhaps also on Arrhidaeus’ mental disability, probably some
degree of mental retardation (Carney 2001: 77–79). However, as C arney