Philip, too, was
attacked by Pausanias because he permitted him to be insulted by
Attalus and his friends, and Amyntas the little, by Derdas, because he
boasted of having enjoyed his youth. Evagoras of Cyprus, again, was
slain by the eunuch to revenge an insult; for his wife had been
carried off by Evagoras's son. Many conspiracies have originated in
shameful attempts made by sovereigns on the persons of their subjects.
Such was the attack of Crataeas upon Archelaus; he had always hated
the connection with him, and so, when Archelaus, having promised him
one of his two daughters in marriage, did not give him either of them,
but broke his word and married the elder to the king of Elymeia,
when he was hard pressed in a war against Sirrhas and Arrhabaeus,
and the younger to his own son Amyntas, under the idea that Amyntas
would then be less likely to quarrel with his son by Cleopatra-
Crataeas made this slight a pretext for attacking Archelaus, though
even a less reason would have sufficed, for the real cause of the
estrangement was the disgust which he felt at his connection with
the king. And from a like motive Hellonocrates of Larissa conspired
with him; for when Archelaus, who was his lover, did not fulfill his
promise of restoring him to his country, he thought that the
connection between them had originated, not in affection, but in the
wantonness of power.
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