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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menon-bio-4" n="menon_4"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Menon</surname></persName></head><p>4. A citizen of Pharsalus in Thessaly, and a man of great influence and reputation, took a
      prominent part in the Lamian war, and commanded the Thessalian cavalry in the battle with the
      Macedonians, in which LEONNATUS was slain. Plutarch tells us that his services were highly
      valued by the confederates, and that he held a place in their estimation second only to
      Leosthenes. At the battle of Cranon (<date when-custom="-322">B. C. 322</date>), he and Antiphilus,
      the Athenian, were defeated by Antipater and Craterus, though the Thessalian horse under his
      command maintained in the action its superiority over that of the enemy; and they felt
      themselves compelled to open a negotiation with the conquerors, which led to the dissolution
      of the Greek confederacy. But when Antipater was obliged to cross over to Asia against
      Perdiccas, the Aetolians renewed the war, and were zealously seconded in Thessaly by Menon,
      through whose influence it probably was that most of the Thessalian towns were induced to take
      part in the insurrection. Soon after, however, he was defeated by Polysperchon in a pitched
      battle, in which he himself was slain, <date when-custom="-321">B. C. 321</date>. His daughter
      Phthia he gave in marriage to Aeacides, king of Epeirus, by whom she became the mother of
      Pyrrhus. (<bibl n="Diod. 18.15">Diod. 18.15</bibl>, <bibl n="Diod. 18.17">17</bibl>, <bibl n="Diod. 18.38">38</bibl>; <bibl n="Plut. Pyrrh. 1">Plut. Pyrrh. 1</bibl>, <hi rend="ital">Phoc.</hi> 24, 25; Droysen, <hi rend="ital">Gesch. der Nachf. Alex.</hi> pp. 71, 87, 127,
      155.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.E">E.E</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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