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Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung from Perdiccas,
as they themselves affirm, is a thing which I can declare of my own
knowledge, and which I will hereafter make plainly evident. That
they are so has been already adjudged by those who manage the
Pan-Hellenic contest at Olympia. For when Alexander wished to
contend in the games, and had come to Olympia with no other view, the
Greeks who were about to run against him would have excluded him from
the contest - saying that Greeks only were allowed to contend, and
not barbarians. But Alexander proved himself to be an Argive, and
was distinctly adjudged a Greek; after which he entered the lists for
the foot-race, and was drawn to run in the first pair. Thus was this
matter settled.
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