3772.
Antigonus Doson reigned twelve years in the quality of guardian to the young prince.
3784.
Philip, after the death of Antigonus, ascended the throne at the age of fourteen years, and reigned something more than forty.
3824.
His son Perseus succeeded him, and reigned about eleven years. He was defeated and taken prisoner by Paulus Emilius; and Macedonia, in consequence of that victory, was added to the provinces of the Roman empire.
IV. The Kingdom of Thrace, and Bithynia, &c.
This fourth kingdom, composed of several separate provinces very remote from one another, had not any succession of princes, and did not long subsist in its first condition; Lysimachus, who first obtained it, having been killed in a battle after a reign of twenty years, and all his family being exterminated by assassinations, his dominions were dismembered, and no longer constituted one kingdom.
Beside the provinces which were divided among the captains of Alexander, there were others which had been either formed before, or were then erected into different states, independent of the Greeks, whose power greatly increased in process of time.