It declines Perdikkou [in the genitive]. The Macedonian; [it was he] whom the Macedonians plotted against and killed.[1] He was a man who acquired great military power and became exceptionally haughty; hence also, of course, his monstrous confidence in his intellect brought him into every kind of danger, and his excessive boasting, with which he appeared to be despising all Macedonians, used to create jealousy-inducing successes. And besides jealousy there arose hatred against him, and the feeling that his domination over them, both in reality and in title, was intolerable. Thus they turned the reversals of fortune, in anger about their former suspicions rather than in an evaluation of truest judgement, into the plot against him.